LCD on Kubinskaya, 2021-27-01
St. Petersburg, Kubinskaya street, 82
Designer: LLC "Project Culture"
Customer: LLC "SZ" RSTI-Nova"
Discussed: architectural and town-planning appearance
Kubinskaya Street, as Alexander Zyuzin put it, is being built up "from the inside out" - while numerous residential complexes are being briskly built in the depths of the blocks, the street front is still forming warehouses and industrial buildings. The residential complex "Project Culture" will be the first to enter Kubinskaya, which implies certain difficulties: the already narrow section is "pressed" by the regulatory zones of neighboring complexes, moreover, it is destined to play the role of a dominant, which will form a corner with the 2nd Predportovy passage and will meet at the exit from the junction of Pulkovskoye Highway and Dunaysky Prospect.
The complex is of different heights, which is a rarity for housing of this class. The accent is played by three 18-storey towers - this is the maximum allowable height on this site. Two L-shaped sections with a height of 12 and 16 floors will stretch along Kubinskaya. The buildings will be united by a stylobate, on which play and sports grounds are located; a built-in-attached kindergarten for 100 children also goes here.
Many experts praised the project for its general layout, silhouette, proportions and facade solutions. Sergey Oreshkin also noted the differentiation of window openings and types of apartments. “Everything is in the same style with sufficient variety,” said Nikita Yavein.
Semyon Mikhailovsky called the complex "absolutely pragmatic, developmental, not brilliant in solutions, but acceptable." Most of the authors were "nightmares", in the words of Felix Buyanov, for the long blank wall connecting the buildings along Kubinskaya Street - behind it there is a semi-deep parking. Nikita Yavein suggested making at least one store in the center of this wall, which would give the feeling of a residential street, otherwise there would be not just boring, but “uncontrolled zone”. Vladimir Grigoriev supported: something more sophisticated is needed, for example, vertical landscaping, or a transparent wall through which cars and lights are visible. In the end, the benches will already be good - the wall is "warm", people will sit and warm themselves.
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zooming 1/4 Apartment building © Proekt culture
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zooming 2/4 Apartment building © Proekt culture
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zooming 3/4 Apartment building © Proekt culture
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zooming 4/4 Apartment building © Proekt culture
Evgeny Gerasimov spoke more emotionally than others: “Kubinskaya Street is not the most prominent, but you need to respect both the street and the people on it. It is necessary to deepen the parking lot, to do the front of service Otherwise, you will end up with a dirty graffiti fence that has no charm. The current solution is to save the customer's money."
Vladimir Linov and Vladimir Avrutin were also interested in the "dog's tail" - a long and narrow green area, which could have some meaning - to be a boulevard, for example. According to the authors, these are the remnants of the railway sidings, and all that can be done with them is to sow a lawn.
Vladimir Grigoriev noted the human scale of the complex and generally supported it.
Peter I rescuing drowning people near Lakhta, 2021-20-01
Team of authors: architect Mikhail Mamoshin, sculptor Stepan Mokrousov-Guglielmi, project ideologist Alexey Kravchenko, architect Diana Lisitsa
Initiator: Gazprom Social Initiatives Support Fund
Discussed: preliminary design
The monument to Peter I near the Lakhta Center was discussed for the second time. The new version looks much more laconic: the flower beds and the green "curtain" as "fashionable youth of our time" have completely disappeared, instead of them there are monumental granite benches. The modified pedestal, according to Mikhail Mamoshin, is now “combined with the geometry of the second stage of Lakhta-Tsetra”.
Started last time
the discussion about the "positivity" of Peter, who was not at all positive in the original version of Leopold Bernshtam, continued this time as well. After Yevgeny Gerasimov's questions, it was possible to clarify that the sculpture is not a copy, but rather a “work based on motives”, since there are not enough iconographic materials for a reliable reconstruction, and the intention to change the general mood of the work seems to have been preserved.
Yevgeny Gerasimov considered "an article based on Bernshtam in such a version impossible for ideological and ethical reasons" and suggested leaving Bernshtam alone and making an author's sculpture. Mikhail Sarri recalled that there are hundreds of interpretations of Eugene Onegin or Anna Karenina, and suggested that 90% of the population still does not know who Bernshtam is. Nikita Yavein urged not to reinvent the wheel, since "all modern culture is half a paraphrase of historical themes."
In connection with the discussion, Alexander Karpov recalled the story of Jorge Louis Borges "Pierre Menard, the author of Don Quixote", "where this collision is analyzed in detail - is it possible to repeat the author's intention in 100 or 200 years." And he summed up: “There is no feeling that the idea of the monument has crystallized to the end. The idea is that Gazprom does not need people. A sign is placed - you can look at it from the windows of the car, that's enough. Thus, the site is superfluous. The monument will not lose anything if it stands in the water, right in the lagoon. But as a philanthropist, I would suggest returning the greenery and making a connecting passage, a transit for people to walk."
Sergei Oreshkin suggested leaving ethical issues at the discretion of the sculptors, and instead discuss urban planning: from his point of view, the choice of the site for the monument is reasonable. Vladimir Linov supported, but expressed a paradoxical position: “The worse the sculpture is now, the better in the future: it will not be a protected object, aesthetic views will change, and the pedestal is successful for placing a modern abstract object. A good composition can emerge. Ideologically I agree - a disgrace. I would approve the project."
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zooming 1/4 View from the side of the area. Memorable sign "Peter I, saving drowning people near Lakhta" © Mamoshin Architectural and Design Center
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zooming 2/4 View from the Primorskoe highway. Memorable sign "Peter I, saving drowning people near Lakhta" © Mamoshin Architectural and Design Center
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zooming 3/4 View from the Primorskoe highway. Eastern embankment. Memorable sign "Peter I, saving drowning people near Lakhta" © Mamoshin Architectural and Design Center
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zooming 4/4 Facade solutions of the sculptural composition. Memorable sign "Peter I, saving drowning people near Lakhta" © Mamoshin Architectural and Design Center
Semyon Mikhailovsky called the place where the monument stands "an empty knee" and wondered what kind of people would come here and for what purpose? Vladimir Grigoriev suggested that these would be Gazprom employees and remembered the Shemyakin Sphinxes, who “feel very lonely”. By the end of the discussion, Semyon Mikhailovsky resigned himself: “At first I got excited, but now I am calmly looking - well, to hell with him. This is the absurdity of our modern life. I'm not against".
The monument is planned to be opened in 2024.
