Architecture of Russia 2024, April
The exhibition with the strange name "RodDom" is not at all simple. Many famous architects participate in it, a third or a quarter of them are foreigners. Each presented his own view of the birth of a creative idea in the form of an object of compact size
We have already written about the project of the Vremena Goda shopping center on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. This is a very technically advanced building, the entire southern façade of which, facing the highway, has been transformed into a computer-controlled mechanical display case. Now the building has been completed, the fashionable shopping center is open and you can see all this
At the meeting on March 22, many projects for the city center were considered: an underground shopping center on Smolenskaya Square, an office building on B. Sukharevskaya, a shopping complex on the site of the one destroyed in the 1930s. the Church of the Three Saints at the Red Gate, next to the Ladovsky Arch and the project of the complex on Dubininskaya Street. JSB "Ostozhenka"
On March 27, the IX International Festival of Architecture and Interior Design "Under the Roof of a House" opened. This year, the competition "Subject in Space" was added to the award, which includes an award for young designers "M3". The motto of the festival is: "Young designers are our beautiful future"
Yesterday, on March 29, the presentation of the 4th annual catalog "Quality Architecture" took place, at which the architects were awarded honorary diplomas and "golden masters". Architectural News Agency correspondent attended the awards ceremony
On March 29-30, a conference was held on the topic "Multifunctional buildings-complexes: a short-term trend or the future of the market?", Where, in particular, foreign and Russian architects showed their projects and spoke about their convictions - Eric Van Egerat, Tony Kettle (RMJM bureau ), Roger Klein, Mikhail Khazanov
This house meets trains. Its place, to the left of the railway tracks in front of the Kursk station, is now occupied by a pumping plant, which will be taken out for the construction of an "office and business shopping complex" - such castles are now being done in Moscow on a regular basis in order to liberate the central districts from industrial zones
Grand Prix was not awarded this year
Notes on the installation by Alexander Brodsky for the books of Anna Narinskaya - "The Library of Neva-Babylon" in the Center for Tolerance
The house with trees on the facade in Bryusov Lane, about which we wrote about the project relatively recently, has already been built almost entirely - only the interior decoration remains, and now there is an opportunity to see it live. Thanks to the excursion organized on April 7 by the "Freedom of Access" project, we were able to look at the house not only from the outside, but also from the inside, and even look at Moscow from its balcony
The premiere of Mozart's The Magic Flute, staged by Sergei Kuznetsov and Agnia Sterligova (Planet 9) at the Helikon Opera, is a pure delight for children and adults (the opera is performed in two versions). Scenography is the skewer on which is strung a crazy plot about the confrontation of the extremely extreme two principles - male and female
On April 19, at the same time in the "Golden Section", the prize in the field of commercial real estate Real Estate Awards was solemnly presented. The Development Prize has been awarded for the fourth year, and this time there was one significant innovation - in addition to developers, they also began to award architects; their diplomas were posted on the honor board. Among those marked by Sergey Kiselev's Hermitage Plaza as the best class A office
An exhibition of the architect Alexei Bavykin has opened in the suite of the Museum of Architecture
After a long lull, the hero of the "Credo" lecture cycle, organized by the Center for Contemporary Art with the support of the Ford Foundation, reappeared on the stage of the Central House of Artists. This time it was the famous Russian architect Boris Levyant, CEO of ABD architects
On May 14, in the suite of the Museum of Architecture, the press was presented with the report “Moscow Heritage. Point of no return”, published jointly by MAPS and SAVE Europe’s Heritage - by the Moscow and European societies for the protection of architectural heritage, respectively. This is a detailed and versatile analysis of the current situation, combining historical and cultural essays with an analysis of Russian legislation, European experience and even practical advice. The press conference was attended by many well-known journalists and intellectuals
Were considered: the hotel complex "Sheremetyevskoe Podvorie" on Nikolskaya - part of the long-suffering "quarter No. 5 Kitay-gorod", a project for Bakuninskaya street by Vissarionov's workshop, three residential buildings on Bolshaya Sukharevskaya, and a project for the construction and reconstruction of ROSZDRAVA buildings on Timur Frunze
Villa Calypso, designed by Ilya Utkin for the Pirogov collection, is a rare architectural project today with literary overtones. Probably, today it can be understood as the quintessence of the author's experiments on the creation of his own architectural dialect, intended for large country villa-palaces
On May 16, the Building publishing house held the 2nd conference in the series "Difficulty levels: from building to city", dedicated to new business centers and districts. On which one could find out a number of curious things: for example, that there are now 5 million square meters in Moscow. meters of offices, and soon this number will increase approximately 4 times. And that in St. Petersburg by 2010 they plan to build at least one more tower, comparable in scale to Gazprom City - now on Vasilievsky Island
Freestyle - an indoor ski slope, combined with a water park, apartments, shops and much more - looks like a giant snake, whose body contains a slope with year-round snow. The peculiarity of this project is that the "nonlinearity" of its plastics, which is actual today, is not an excess, but an exact answer to the set practical task
The project of transforming the Nizhny Novgorod Strelka from a cargo port into a modern multifunctional complex combines a delicate attitude to heritage, bold architecture and even an attempt to comprehend the history of the place, theatrically building a new urban space around the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The house on Savvinskaya embankment has already become accepted to be presented as very well-built, but not brilliant from an architectural point of view. Without refuting the established point of view, we note that it still has something of the absolute - probably, this can be defined as an attempt to get closer to perfect rationalism by combining functional pragmatics in the internal structure and mathematical refinement on the facades
The council considered 8 projects, among which - the house "Marshal" Mikhail Filippov, the building of Mikhail Posokhin on Arbat Square on the site of the demolished "Nightingale House", as well as the Western port in the "Big City", a complex of garden and park art in Tushino and Olympic Center of field hockey "Moscow" by Andrey Bokov
The twelfth "Arch Moscow" under the direction of curator Bart Goldhoorn turned into an international festival and significantly transformed the space of the Central House of Artists, as well as went beyond it and thought about urban planning
The lecture of the world celebrity, architect and scientist, Pritzker Prize winner Rem Koolhaas, was organized by the Moscow Center for Contemporary Architecture. The architect told a lot of interesting things - that the world is afraid of Gazprom, that the projects of the stars deny themselves, and his own projects in the future will be impossible to restore. Irina Filchenkova listened to the lecture
On June 1, shortly before the presentation of the "main" diplomas of the Arch of Moscow, the winners of the conceptual competition "Vertical City", organized by the curator Anton Kochurkin, were announced at the stand of the "Triumphal Mark" company
One of the interesting figures among the guests of the current Arch of Moscow is the young Danish bureau BIG, which last year became one of the nominees for the Yakov Chernikhov Prize. Sweden, and interest is in China
On June 2, the famous Italian designer and architect Gaetano Pesce delivered a lecture at the Arch of Moscow at the invitation of AD and Chivas magazine. He spoke about the difference between architecture and construction, national and rational, and also that in the future things should become both unique and cheap - this is how the maestro sees the third generation industrial revolution. Irina Filchenkova listened to the prophecies
On May 31, Arch Moscow hosted a round table dedicated to a very urgent topic for the city - the conversion of industrial buildings. The conversation was initiated by the "Freedom of Access" project within the framework of the "Promoprom" program
Report on the presentation of the architecture of the Maxwan group in Moscow
The project of a large hotel at the stadium next to the VDNKh tower failed due to its large size, the ABV project for MGTS also turned out to be too high, the project of an apart-hotel near the Kriegs Commissariat on Kosmodamianskaya emb. it is recommended to stop being a dwelling and become a hotel
Report from a lecture by landscape architect Michel Devin at the Red October club
On June 3, on the last day of the Arch of Moscow, the architectural exhibition Arabesques, designed by Yuri Avvakumov, opened in the boathouse of the Pirogovo resort. The exhibition will last four months
In the project of the new sanatorium, the Panakom bureau set out to combine luxury and simplicity, perfecting to the limit the laconic image of a “residential unit” for outdoor recreation. True, the cells are not devoid of individuality and are formed into a picturesque composition, organically inscribed in the mountain landscape
Completed the reconstruction of the house in Spasonalivkovsky lane, 18, building 1, the project of which received a bronze diploma at Zodchestvo in 2003
The following were accepted: a preliminary design of an administrative building with a built-in automatic telephone exchange of Boris Levyant, a preliminary design of an office building on ul. Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya, a project for the regeneration of a building in Sezhinskiy per. Sent for revision: a pre-project for the reconstruction of the Institute. Krzhizhanovsky on Leninsky Prospect, a project of an office and business center and a complex "Temple of Childhood" near the Olympic, a project for the reconstruction of a residential building on Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya
The competition concept of building a block on the site of the Krasny Proletary plant from above resembles a scheme of military operations between "modernism" and "historicism" - it is indicative that 300 years ago, this place was occupied by the army of Boris Godunov, who fought against Kazy-Girey. pragmatic positions - the concept is new for Moscow in that it literally divides private and public space, placing them at different heights and forming a fundamentally different, more comfortable type of city
Were considered - the hotel and business complex of Nikita Biryukov on Ostozhenka, the project of M.M. Posokhin and I.M. Krymovaya on Sadovy near Krasnopresnenskaya in the form of an ornamental 5-storey bush, an office building on B. Molchanovka, as well as 2 hotels from the municipal program of "small hotels" and - for the third and last time, an add-on of a house on Tverskaya
Three projects were considered: the house of Sergei Kiselev for Sadovnicheskaya embankment, a municipal residential building in the 4th Krasnoselsky lane and a project of an office building on Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya
On July 2, at a public council under the mayor of Moscow, the fate of the underground space of Pushkinskaya Square was decided - a transport hub with a tunnel and a parking lot near Tverskaya was adopted, and the mayor resolutely rejected the shopping and leisure center, which caused a standing ovation from the audience. Another key issue of the council was the area of Olympic Avenue with the tower of the First Channel. Also approved: the aviation museum on the Khodynskoye field and the house at the beginning of Yakimanka - part of the "Golden Island"
German architect Jurgen Willen, head of the Willen Associates workshop, presented a project for a new stage for the Taganka theater, commissioned by the Rose group. The project resembles a giant display case with a gold nugget hidden inside