The Coop Himmelb (l) au building in Kemerovo is the second stage of the Siberian Art Cluster (general contractor - JSC Stroytransgaz). The first, educational, is already under construction and should be commissioned in 2021: it will be a choreographic academy (a branch of the Moscow State Academy of Arts), a higher school of musical and theatrical arts (a branch of the Russian State Institute for the Arts), an ordinary and music secondary school (a branch of the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory), dormitories for students students, housing for teachers.
As part of the second stage, it was planned to erect two structures - an opera and ballet theater and a museum center, however, the governor of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev
this summer, he said that “we generally have an idea to do everything in one building. Now we are working on the way to ensure that our women in high heels and in beautiful dresses can go to the theater, the Russian Museum, and then sit in a restaurant and go to the Arts Center. And all this - without leaving one building”.
For the comfort of the women of Kuzbass, architects Coop Himmelb (l) au and
Gorka Group of Companies. Their complex will appear on the banks of the Iksitimka River, between Sovetskiy and Pritomskiy Avenues and Michurina Street: a park zone will be created there, a new bridge will be built. This is a site in the central part of Kemerovo, east of the Philharmonic.
The functional program of the building is as follows: a "cloud" for a hall for 950 spectators (the Opera and Ballet Theater is a branch of the Mariinsky Theater), a chamber hall in the podium for 300 seats, two "crystals" - for a branch of the Russian Museum and for the Kuzbass Arts Center with a cinema and concert complex, as well as a lobby with a restaurant and exhibition areas on the podium floors - Austrian architects plan that it will be open 24/7 and will become an important all-weather public space for Kemerovo.
The total area of the museum and theater complex will be about 90,000 m2, it is planned to complete it by December 31, 2023, as well as three other clusters - in Vladivostok, Kaliningrad and Sevastopol (in Crimea, by the way, the author of the concept
also performed by Coop Himmelb (l) au). These complexes as an idea appeared in 2018 in the presidential message to the Federal Assembly and in the decree "On national goals and strategic objectives for the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024", details of the implementation of the project, including difficulties, can be found here and here.
