Architecture of Russia 2024, May
The residential building "Premier" on Vorobyovy Gory, conceived five years ago and completed only now, boasts a solid and almost mathematically precise architectural solution, a subtle play of forms on the verge of either atomic physics or high philosophy
On October 25, at Winzavod, at the invitation of C: SA / Center for Contemporary Architecture, an American artist and architect Vito Acconci gave a lecture, who in the 70s explored the boundaries of his own body with the help of the first portable cameras, and is now studying the influence of architecture on humans and vice versa
Moscow cultural walks with the avant-garde name MosKulProg, which are organized by Sergei Nikitin, associate professor of art history at Moscow State Pedagogical University, have a 10th anniversary this year. In honor of which, the season consisted of ten actions, among them - an excursion along the "main-non-main" Tverskaya street, a trip to St. Petersburg for the "white nights", a walk along the Moscow "golden mile" - the Ostozhenka area and others. The final excursion was dedicated to the skyscraper at the Red Gate
The Panakom bureau has another interesting and unusual house with many faces. The façade on the side of the entrance creates an unexpected feeling of “large” architecture on a smaller scale. Probably it's the arch. Architects explain its presence by the need to create a permeable environment, connecting the two halves of the courtyard. But let's go further: from the side it seems that in front of you is a fragment of the fortress wall, behind you is a giant two-story stained-glass window. And so on in a circle without stopping, because there are a lot of details and
Some time ago, the results of a custom competition for a project of a multifunctional high-rise building in the center of Novosibirsk became known. Three architectural companies were invited to participate in the competition - ABD architects Boris Levyant, SpeeCH Sergey Tchoban and Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (SHCA)
On 6 acres in the historical center of Moscow, Sergey Skuratov designed an underground villa with an area of 2500 sq.m., full of light, air, greenery and parking spaces that do not interfere with anyone
At the Central House of Architects, at the invitation of the Center for Contemporary Architecture (C: SA), a lecture was held by a former "wallet", a master of wooden houses and small houses and just a wonderful artist who a few years ago found "his" customer - Totan Kuzembaev
This year, Arkhip, together with the contests House for a Star and Russian Design, were united by the organizers into a single salon "Interior Show", which is now taking place in the Central Exhibition Hall Manezh. The main substantive change was that the Architectural Prize became international - and not only the competition itself expanded, but also the composition of the jury. All places in the category "innovation" were taken by foreign architects, leaving our traditional ones - thus, confirming the words that were constantly heard at the ceremony that we are still
On Saturday, November 24, Winzavod hosted an awarding ceremony for the nominees for the architectural visualization competition Russian Architectural Rendering Award - 2007
The Center for Contemporary Architecture (C: SA) continues to acquaint the Russian public with the experience of well-known foreign architectural firms. Last Friday there was an opportunity to listen to a lecture by the American Thomas Lieser, a student of Peter Eisenman himself. In Russia, Lieser is known mainly as the author of the project that won the competition for the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, which became an event in Western architectural life in the summer of 2007
Thanks to the unusual design of the facade, which changes its color appearance, and the transparent consoles - "showcases", pushed out from the body of the building, the new dealership for the sale of cars, designed by the ADM bureau, can become a remarkable object in a number of modern buildings that have grown in recent years outside the Moscow Ring Road
The construction of an office building begins on Nakhimovsky Prospekt, in which its authors, ABD architects, confronted two themes - office style and a stone-brick context. The result is a rigid, but uneven grid-lattice, inside which is a glass volume, sprouting trees on the roof
The plan for the new building from the Panacom bureau is very reminiscent of the corals from the dresses of the latest Gucci collection. In this project, the architects turned the house into a whole alien village - individual clusters are connected by a looped corridor with a "wardroom" and a "power supply" in the center, from each "box" you can go directly to the street
The main topic of discussion on December 11 was the elements of the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater - ventilation shafts of the underground hall, which will stand in rows of advertising bollards along the Maly and Youth Theaters, as well as emergency exits in the form of glass pavilions on the sides of the main portico. The hotel and administrative complex in the Paveletskaya industrial zone was also considered and adopted, but the project of a hotel in Fili near the "Kutuzovskaya izba" was rejected
The fate of the general plan of Moscow until 2025 is being decided: for two months from November 12 to January 12, exhibitions of the updated general plan projects and public hearings are held in all districts of the city, as a result of which it will either be adopted or not. One of the authors of the master plan, Oleg Baevsky, at the invitation of the Center for Contemporary Architecture (CSA), spoke about why there was a need for its actualization, and what areas are outlined as priorities
In the Museum of Architecture. A.V. Shchusev opened the exhibition "Poetry of Form", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the famous Brazilian architect
This time Sir Norman Foster proposed to Moscow "Crystal Island": a giant cable-stayed structure is supposed to be built on a peninsula in the Nagatinskaya floodplain. After receiving various reviews, the project was accepted. They also approved an interchange hub at Vykhino, an experimental project for the diversion of high-voltage lines underground, a high-speed tram line along the Entuziastov highway and the restoration of the Moskvoretsky park
At the Public Council under the Mayor of Moscow on November 7, one of the most ambitious and most innovative projects of recent times was approved - a project of a multifunctional complex located directly above the Kiev direction of the Moscow Railway. Due to the global nature of the project and the need to solve a huge number of technical problems, specialists from various Design and Research Institutes in Moscow were involved in the work on it. The development of the volumetric-spatial solution of the complex is
The construction of the VDNKh tower by Alexei Bavykin was completed last spring. The 35-storey dominant, whose architecture is faithful to the spirit and letter of the search for Russian rationalism, has become a noticeable accent in the panoramas of the north of Moscow and at the same time managed not to suppress the immediate environment
On December 7, 2007, the pan-European Federation of Cultural Heritage Europa Nostra, representing 250 European organizations, issued a press release, which contains an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to protect the historic center of St. Petersburg, the architectural integrity of which can be disrupted by the planned construction of a 396-meter skyscraper by Gazprom (Okhta Center). We publish the text of the appeal in two languages
One of the features of modern Russian architecture is the so-called investment construction. When a customer's money is used to build a cultural object - a theater, a concert hall or a school, and in return he gets the opportunity to equip this, as they say on the councils, “useful for the city” building with something profitable, like shops and office centers. The area of the commercial part, which grows around the "cultural" core, as a rule turns out to be much larger, and in front of the author
On one of the most "architectural" streets of Moscow - 2nd Brestskaya, not far from its intersection with Bolshaya Gruzinskaya, the finishing of a new banking building, designed by Pavel Andreev, is being completed. Construction was completed just in time for the New Year
The Union of Architects of Russia has developed and submitted to the government a draft "Procedure for holding architectural and urban planning competitions in the Russian Federation." We publish the text of the project with small comments
The Forum-plaza business center project is a solution that balances on the verge between conservative and sharp-modern approaches to architecture. However, it is calm, polished and balanced enough to become one of the examples of a harmonious combination of both
Office building project on st. Nametkina combines a simple rectangular volume with the curious idea of a "collection" of fragments of various office facades, collected in the architecture of one house as in a kind of "museum"
The resort area of Yalta is a place where magnificent nature and rich cultural context create an attractive atmosphere for any creativity. Saturated with historical allusions and repeatedly sung in literature, it remains a tidbit for architects to this day. Yuri Vissarionov was imbued with the spirit of resort romanticism and imbued with it the project of an elite residential complex for Yalta
Building a garden city is a classic dream of any architect. It is well known that this theme was a favorite among the avant-garde masters of the 1920s - just remember the poetry of Mayakovsky. Yuri Vissarionov offered his own interpretation of an old dream using the example of the urban planning concept of the Zarechye microdistrict
The concept of a business park for Ufa resembles a fragment of a giant multi-part wall, which included volumes of different imagery, united by a common extended atrium
On January 23, an exhibition dedicated to one of Moscow's streets, Spiridonovka, was opened in the White Hall of the Moscow Architectural Institute. This is an exhibition-research: its core is composed of paintings-reconstructions by Vladislav Ryabov, based on the latest scientific works, and sweeps made by archivist Olga Kim. The plastic accent was created by mock-ups made by architecture students
On the site of the existing Cheremushkinsky market, a modern shopping and entertainment complex is being designed, over which a rounded building with offices and a hotel, as well as a panoramic restaurant on the upper level, will rise. The hotel facade is supposed to be turned into a huge screen, consisting of led lamps
Of the three projects reviewed at the last OERG meeting, two were revisited. The construction project of the second stage of the Krestovsky shopping center near the Rizhskaya metro station was again sent for revision due to the lack of a consolidated general plan of the site. New variants of the architectural and planning solution of the complex on Bol. Nikolovorobinsky per. Proposals for the replacement of two residential buildings on 2nd Neopalimovsky lane. the new ones were preliminarily approved and sent to the
On January 29, the first meeting of the OERG this year was held, at which three projects were considered. The new Ostozhen project by Yuri Grigoryan was sent for revision, loaded with a lot of notes with wishes. They also temporarily rejected the expansion project of the Krestovsky shopping center, which intended to absorb the Riga market; the reconstruction of hospital buildings on Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya was approved
On Tatiana's day, January 25, in the Red Hall of the Moscow Architectural Institute, at the invitation of the C: SA / Center for Contemporary Architecture, the Dutch intellectual from architecture Ole Bowman gave a lecture, who, having arrived in Moscow, decided to give improvisation instead of the theme announced in the announcement. From which came a fairly theoretical master class on how to become a truly "individual" author today
The Alexandrov & Partners bureau has developed a project for an elite business park with class A and A + offices, which should be located on the 11th kilometer of the Baltic highway, not far from Rublevskoe highway. The project, taking into account the high level of comfort, involves a sparse development with an extensive green area and a cascade of ponds. The required volume of square meters will be obtained by introducing two high-rise dominants into the low-rise composition - towers of 21 and 25 floors
On February 7, at a press conference held in the Central House of Artists, it was officially announced that the first Moscow architecture biennale will be held, which will be dedicated to mass housing
The new administrative and office center, recently built on Malaya Dmitrovka by the project of Pavel Andreev's workshop, delicately hides behind the historic building of the city manor of the 19th century, without violating the existing facade line of this old street
The competitive project of a quarter for the city of Budva in the first version makes you recall the fantasies of the architects of the Russian avant-garde of the 1920s - stands, mausoleums. The second option is more fashionable and fantastical - but both versions have one thing in common - they are permeated with a frame lattice, which makes the buildings transparent, permeable and a little theatrical
The architectural concept of the special economic zone of Tomsk, completed by ABD architects earlier this year, summarizes the experience of building offices and business parks, which this architectural company has quite a lot. The combination of this experience and the urban planning task has resulted in a "high technology park" that combines the capabilities of a good modern office and contemporary architecture with the good old idea of a garden city
On Stromynka, the construction of a house has been completed, which its authors - the architects of Nikolai Lyzlov's workshop - nicknamed "Rafinad". By today's standards, this is a very small building, executed in a rare genre of architectural miniature, which has never been developed in modern Moscow
The Mirax-Plaza complex is, today, the largest facility under construction designed by the architectural company Sergey Kiselev and Partners. It is very large - with a total area of over 368 thousand square meters. And the site intended for construction is very difficult. Yuri Luzhkov, looking at this site, said that it was "… the most difficult in Moscow, and maybe in all of Russia."