Meet the new "Project Russia"
In February 2018, after 23 years of existence, a leading national architecture magazine suspended issues to rethink its role in the professional community. The birth of the new concept took, as expected, almost 9 months.
The purpose of the new concept of the magazine and site - display and independent assessment of Russian architecture based on the most objective selection: jury assessment with the involvement of Russian and international experts. And the new list of roles - both paper and online - includes five items: 1. authority 2. guide 3. community 4. event 5. archive.
The diagram looks like this: the editorial office collects (archives) objects of high-quality Russian architecture (and stores them openly on the new website); with the help of an authoritative jury selects among them the best projects in different nominations; arranges an event - honoring the authors of projects, accompanied by an exhibition, lectures and round tables; thus continuing to expand and strengthen the community that has formed around the journal; taking on the role of guides, choosing the most relevant topics that require reflection and bringing them up to the community in the form of discussions and publications.
Four issues of the magazine turn into four "yearbooks" devoted to a specific topic-nomination. Each has its own jury and selects 30 projects worthy of discussion.
In issue PR87, released in 2018, the jury included Jerry van Eyck (! Melk), author of the Tyufeleva Roshcha park in Moscow; Stanley Lang (Turenscape), the author of the project for the improvement of the embankments of the Kaban lakes in Kazan; Eva Radionova (Novascape), co-author of the improvement of Uchitela Boulevard in Yakutsk, and Sergey Skuratov, one of the leading Russian architects. In addition to the description, each project is accompanied by comments of the jury.
So, in PR87 you will find:
- 30 best public spaces in Russia from the Bureau "Architectural landing", Arteza, gmp architeken, KB Strelka, Wowhaus, Kleinewelt Architekten, "Magli-project", FUTURA Architects, AFA, TO "Morning", "8 lines", IN. Form, Meralstudio, NEFA Architects, People's Architect, City for Children, Practice, NEW, KOSMOS Architects, Nikita Malikov's Architectural Bureau, Druzhba, Manipulazione Internazionale, Icing Architects.
- "Architect's Handbook" - contacts of manufacturers of structures, lighting, landscaping, paving and equipment that took part in the best projects
- detailed description of the technologies used - from the material embodiment of the energy of the future to information modeling of projects under the heading "Technologies and Design";
- research on the transformation of the design paradigm public spaces over the past 100 years;
- analysis of the results of the competition of small towns and historical settlements from the agency for strategic initiatives "CENTER" - why do we need a competition and have we learned how to design an urban environment;
- interviews about the specifics of designing public spaces in extreme climates - excessively hot or too cold - with PR87 jury member Eva Radionova;
- public spaces as a global investment: experience of the Novaya Zemlya group of companies in working in single-industry towns with a private customer;
- overview of Russian trends in the design of public spaces in a global context.
The next winter issue "Project Russia" 88 will be dedicated to office, educational and public interiors.
The jury included: Christos Passas, Executive Director of Zaha Hadid Architects (the world-famous bureau is currently conducting several thematic projects in Russia at once, from the Sberbank Technopark in Skolkovo to the Philharmonic Society in Yekaterinburg), Massimo Alvizi and Junko Kirimoto (Italian bureau Alvisi Kirimoto; at various times collaborated with Renzo Piano and Massimiliano Fuksas, together with Oscar Niemeyer they built a concert hall in Ravello, became co-authors of OMA in the work on the Prada Foundation complex in Milan and designed the interiors of the Theater of the Academy of Arts in Naples), Anton Nadtochy, CEO of ATRIUM workshop, which designed five offices for Yandex, and Harry Nuriev, the founder of the Russian-American company Crosby Studios, which specializes in interiors of offices, restaurants and boutiques, and the New York Times has already dubbed Harry a "pioneer of global minimalism", combining features of Scandinavia in the West, Japan in the East and Russia - in craft approaches to furniture and details.
The editors are waiting for projects implemented in 2017-2018 at [email protected] until January 10, 2019.
