The winners of Arch of Moscow-22 were awarded last Saturday, May 27. The ceremony took place on the third floor of the Central House of Artists, where installations by the nominees for the main awards of the festival became the stage decorations. The official part began with the words of Vasily Bychkov, who shared the statistics: the exhibition was housed in 27 halls of the Central House of Artists at 10,000 m2, presented about 1000 projects from 250 participants from 13 countries.
The Arch of Moscow theme this year is NEXT !, so the main event of the evening was the awarding ceremony for the best young bureau. The winner was selected by the curators of the project Elena Gonzalez and Ruben Arakelyan out of eleven applicants who showed their expositions within the framework of the New Voices project, and the winner was determined by the jury, which, in addition to the curators, included Yuliy Borisov, Vera Butko, Vasily Bychkov, Sergey Kuznetsov, Vladimir Kuzmin, Anton Nadtochiy, Vladimir Plotkin, Sergey Skuratov, Sergey Tchoban and Nikita Yavein.
As Elena Gonzalez said, two bureaus remained the main contenders for victory until the last - GAFA architects and FAS (t). But in the end, the group of architects FAS (t) won by one vote. Ruben Arakelyan, one of the leaders of the WALL bureau, which was recognized as the best at Arch Moscow 2015, explained that the decisive factor in choosing the winner was “aesthetics and conceptual message”. According to him, “the jury highly appreciated the exposition of the FAS (t) bureau, referring to the origins of academic architecture, when the architect was thinking about proportions, tectonics, and mass. In the era of the temporary and one-off, the subtle and philosophical reflections of the FAS (t) group seemed to the jury extremely important. In addition to the diploma, the FAS (t) bureau has traditionally received the right to present its personal exposition at the festival next year.
As for the project itself “Architecture Next! New Voices”, then, by the decision of the festival jury, he became the best among curatorial projects. Elena Gonzalez and Ruben Arakelyan presented to the visitors of the exhibition a whole hall with projects, or rather installations of young architectural teams. This exhibition turned out to be one of the most spectacular, varied and fulfilling.
In the nomination "Best research project" the diploma of the festival was once again received by the exposition of the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow. The MCA stand, located on the third floor, this year was devoted to the issues of rationing. The design of the exposition was developed by the Planeta 9 bureau, the curator was the chief architect of Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov.
The ArchDaily exposition, created by Sergei Choban and Andrey Perlich from the SPEECH bureau, won the Best Architectural Solution for the Exposition nomination. The curator of the project, Anna Martovitskaya, noted the accuracy of the name of the nomination, because it was thanks to the architectural solution that beat the ArchDaily tablets in the form of double blocks that it was possible to make the exposition memorable. Anna Martovitskaya herself, editor-in-chief of speech: magazine, who first appeared at the festival as a curator of international projects, received a diploma for “Brilliant Curator's Debut”.
The best special exposition this year was undoubtedly the stand of the architect of the year Nikita Yavein and the Studio 44 bureau. On the stand with many stairs and wooden structures, one could see the models of the workshop created over the years of its existence.
The exposition from the furniture manufacturer, the Lumi company, "Architect's Shop" received a diploma in the nomination "Best Special Project in the Field of Design". Less than a year ago, Lumi, together with Project Russia magazine, launched a competition to design unique outdoor furniture. Ten well-known architects of Moscow were involved in the implementation of the project, including Alexander Brodsky and Totan Kuzembaev. The results of their work - life-size benches - could be seen during the exhibition on the second floor of the Central House of Artists. For more information about the shops, see our
reportage about Arch Moscow.
Once again, the Archistudio - Cassina 9.0 1927-2017 project was awarded the diploma of the festival. ABC OF DESIGN as the best educational project in the field of design. Archistudio annually acquaints visitors of the exhibition with interior items of such great designers as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perier and Pierre Jeanneret.
The exposition of Yulia Zinkevich and Ilya Mukosey "Signs of cities" was also named "The best educational project".
Vlad Savinkin received an award in the category "Best Project - Retrospective". Savinkin admitted that he has a habit of storing and collecting literally everything in boxes - from the first sketch to the theater ticket. This year, we managed to sift several such commemorative boxes associated with the past festivals of the Arch of Moscow and create the Life as an Exhibition exposition.
The Audience Award was given to the HSE School of Design installation “Spatial Representations. Weightlessness . This work, invented by Polina Durmanova, a student of the School of Economics, was named the most photogenic Art object of the exhibition.
Architectural bureaus that presented their expositions in the "Architecture" section also received awards. The 1st degree diploma went to the debutant of the exhibition, the AR-KA bureau, the second place went to the DK Architects workshop, and the third place went to PTAM Vissarionov. In the section "Light in architecture" the winner was the stand of the Artlight company. Finex was awarded in the nomination "Best Conceptual Presentation of Materials". The spectacular exposition of the Zebrano company, created by the project of Arseniy Leonovich, by the Panacom bureau, won in the section "Exterior and Interior Solutions".
For the first time this year, the Arch of Moscow program included the Letter A competition, which evaluates the work of journalists and bloggers writing about architecture. Interestingly, the jury for this competition was mainly composed of architects. One of the organizers, partners and members of the jury was Ilya Mashkov, head of the architectural studio "Mezonproekt". He also presented awards to the winners. Among them were the online edition Architime and the large-scale project "Fronde TV", covering the problems of preserving the historical heritage. The best journalists were Evgenia Strygina, Oksana Samborskaya, Marina Dykina and others. Yulia Shishalova and Vitaly Kalashnikov received diplomas for "The best material of the year on urban planning".
The statuettes in the form of Le Corbusier's figure, on whose chest it is written: "What if architecture can change the world?", Were received by the winners of the Archiprix Russia Prize, awarded for the best thesis. The awards were presented to the students by Oscar Mamleev, who said that this year the jury worked as part of the annual competition in Novosibirsk. 12 nominees from Moscow, Ufa, Samara and Kazan were selected from more than 600 works. Thereafter, an international jury selected three winners. They were Vladislav Kapustin, who presented the project “City Room. Public Center on Basmannaya Square ", carried out under the guidance of the Moscow Architectural Institute professor Yuri Grigoryan; Mikhail Knyazev with the project "Reconstruction of the city of Magnitogorsk", developed under the leadership of Nikolai Lyzlov; Egor Belaz, who completed the project "The Language of Functionally Motivated Geometry in the Architecture of the XXI Century" under the direction of Oleg Yavein.
The development projects presented together with the MCA stand within the framework of the curatorial project of Bart Goldhoorn and Ruben Arakelyan “Architecture as a Development Driver” were not spared either. Here awards were received by the Hals-Development projects Iskra-Park and Teatralny Dom. Also, the Krost Concern, Gorn Development, GVSU CENTER, Aeon and Ferro-Stroy for the River Park city block and ADG Group for the network of regional centers received diplomas.
