Strelka Program: First Results

At the end of July, at the Urban Environment forum in Krasnodar, details of the Strelka design bureau's program for the improvement of 40 Russian cities, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, were discussed. Over the next five years, it is planned to create / update / improve over 230 public spaces. Among them are 20 parks, 127 streets, 45 squares, 43 embankments.

53 architectural bureaus are working on the development of landscaping projects together with KB Strelka. The first results can be seen this year in Belgorod, Voronezh, Grozny, Krasnoyarsk, Lipetsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Penza, Rostov-on-Don, Saransk, Saratov, Ufa and Khabarovsk. The next stages of the improvement are planned for 2018–2022.

Below are a few projects created within the program. The rest can be viewed and commented on on the newly created website.

Improvement project for the Sipailovo district in Ufa

KB Strelka + Urban Bayram

Ivanovo city center improvement project

KB Strelka + AB Novoye + Karres & Brands

Project of a new city embankment in Belgorod

KB "Strelka" + SUE "Beloblproekt"

Project for the transformation of Azatlyk square in Naberezhnye Chelny

KB Strelka + DROM + Basic City

Improvement project of the Iset river embankment in Yekaterinburg

KB "Strelka" + AB "OSA"