Press / Archstoyanie
This year the international festival of landscape objects Archstoyanie was held for the ninth time; almost all of his critics note the movement towards performance, lament the queues and nostalgic for Nikola-Lenivets from the time of Nikolai Polissky. Sergey Khachaturov, in a review for our portal, writes that “the more impressive the organizational platform of the festival, its infrastructure, the more ephemeral and ghostly the ideological and conceptual content”.
Olga Kabanova in Vedomosti calls the Lazy Ziggurat - the last high-rise belvedere in the landscape park - a worthy work, but without the humor and lyrics characteristic of its predecessors. The best here has already been built by the genius of this place - Nikolai Polissky, and the popularity of Archstoyanie is growing many times faster than worthy works are born, - the author believes, noting at the same time that the organizers did not even put Polissky's works on the festival plan: “of course, the name of the festival “Here and now,” but one cannot but inform the newcomers that besides the momentary there is eternal,”Olga Kabanova concludes.
The portal kaluga24.tv, also paying tribute to the new attractions - a giant clock, a cloudy kitchen, a mirror maze and a meditative Japanese woman - turns to the past creations of Archstoyanii. According to the authors, "Rotunda" with its old doors and walls made of disassembled dilapidated village houses much more clearly shows the meaning of time and changing space, many visitors were drawn precisely to old objects "growing into the ground, organically woven into the surrounding landscape."
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" offers a short interview with the current curator of the festival, Richard Castelli, and Theory and Practice - a fragment of a lecture, where he "opposes lazy art, infected with late conceptualism, which risks killing the true meaning of creativity." The Village provides an opportunity to understand how everything looked live. Kommersant talks about the festival's plans for the future - to invite Snohetta, build permanent pavilions and "warm" houses that will allow you to come to Lenivets all year round.
Our portal has also prepared a report on the Art-Ovrag festival of new urban culture in Vyksa, which is also rapidly gaining popularity.
VDNKh
The Village has published photographs of the Green Theater after its renovation. Green, as it turned out, it is called because of the many trees around, now the building has returned to its original ivory color.
RIA Novosti, citing Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, reports that the territory of VDNKh will be merged with the Main Botanical Garden and the Ostankino cultural and sports park. The result will be a single park area of about 540 hectares. Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes in detail about the reconstruction of the Ostankino park.
Colta.ru has prepared a small guide to VDNKh: the history of construction and reconstruction of the entire park is told using the example of seven remarkable exhibits.
St. Petersburg
Sennaya Square in St. Petersburg will soon be reconstructed again, Kommersant reports. Smolny is about to announce a competition. According to its terms, it is necessary to free the territory from retail outlets, transfer all pedestrian flows underground and expand the main highway to eight lanes. The questions of the construction of the Church of the Savior on Sennaya and the Pik-2 shopping center remain unresolved. IA Regnum talked about the reconstruction with "Beautiful Petersburg" - there the project is considered unsuccessful and will insist on its revision. According to public figures, the main goal of the competition is to create a transport interchange hub, but the new scheme is inconvenient for anyone except motorists. Neva time brings another point of view of Krasimir Vranski: the square is located in the very center of the city, it should be a place for people, and not a polluted asphalt field.
As it turned out, it is too early to put an end to the Alla Pugacheva Song Theater. Kommersant writes that PMI will not yet recover from Smolny 100 million rubles spent on the project. "Moi District" and "Fontanka" report that the lease agreement for the land plot has not yet been terminated. Smolny drags on with the final decision.
It is also worth noting interesting changes that are now taking place with the long-abandoned dacha of Gromov in the Lopukhinsky Garden. The Village wrote about them.
Foster in Yekaterinburg
Sir Norman Foster will once again try his luck in Russia. Now - in Yekaterinburg. According to Vedomosti, in August, according to his project, the construction of the headquarters for the Russian Copper Company (RMK) will begin. The business complex will have 13 floors, an underground three-level parking lot, a courtyard with a park for employees and guests of the headquarters. Architectural supervision will also be carried out by Foster + Partners. Our portal wrote in more detail about the project.
Also, Yekaterinburg was visited by Artemy Lebedev, who, possibly, will take care of the image of the city. The report on the designer's acquaintance with Yekaterinburg was prepared by the Znak.com portal.
Water
The website of the Moscow Architectural Council notes that more and more places for water sports appear in Moscow: a synchronized swimming center is being built on the territory of the ZIL plant, the renovation of the Rowing Canal in Krylatskoye is being completed, and the winner of the competition for the reconstruction of the Luzhniki pool has been determined. For its readers, the portal has prepared a text about the types of water structures and their functional content, and by the beginning of a large-scale competition for the development of the Moskva River, it publishes material about the Russian and international experience of renovating city embankments.
Blogs
Denis Galitsky publishes sketches that architect Brean Avery made for the Perm Art Gallery. According to Galitsky, this is a variant of minimal interference in the existing building of the All-Union Committee for the Arts, although a new volume is being created - the "ark", which should solve the issue of recognizability and identification of the place on the scale of the city. In the comments, a controversy unleashed over whether a temple of art should be ultra-modern or traditional.
Ilya Varlamov once again inspected the progress of the reconstruction of Pokrovka and Maroseyka and found several reasons for concern: the drainpipes are not well thought out, in many places parking pockets are stupidly located, and the sidewalks have narrowed; poles, traffic lights, lanterns and navigation boards are uneven or right in the middle of the streets; restoration of facades is carried out by handicraft methods. Maxim Katz is worried that trolleybuses will disappear from these streets. However, both bloggers rate the work done quite highly.
Alexander Minakov published a video dedicated to the reconstruction of Pulkovo-1. The airport building built in 1972 is considered by many to be a classic of Soviet modernism. Now it will become part of the new terminal and will be designed to serve passengers on domestic flights. The external appearance will remain, but everything will change inside.
The RUPA planning community is discussing the New Okkervil residential complex in St. Petersburg, whose creators were inspired by Italian palazzo, as well as the Solnechny district with closed courtyards in Yekaterinburg. In addition, participants argue with an article by Buromoscow leaders about overcoming the dullness of sleeping areas - the main arguments, as usual, are from the field of insolation.
