Architecture of Russia 2024, May

The development of the gigantic territory of the former Khodynskoye field continues. If in the past years the center of construction activity was located on the side of the Ice Palace of Dmitry Bush and "the longest residential building in Europe", now on the agenda are areas adjacent to Leningradsky Prospekt itself. In particular, they are going to rebuild possessions 37-39, in connection with which the workshop of Pavel Andreev proposed a sketch of an urban planning solution for this part, preserving the usual perimeter for Leningradka

The project of the house in Granatny Lane looks like a continuation of Sergei Tchoban's picturesque and ornamental search, begun in St. Petersburg. Grafted in Moscow, the theme undergoes a series of transformations, dresses in stone and brings to life Byzantine memories, which receive a completely new interpretation here

At yesterday's meeting of the Public Council, a project by the German architect Hadi Tehrani was adopted, which looks like a Martian town dug into the base of Poklonnaya Gora. Also, the city plan was adopted for the territory adjacent to the Moscow-City MIBC, in general terms, the shopping center on Sakharov Avenue was adopted, it was decided to complete the observation deck of the Gostiny Dvor - but very carefully, the Usadba Center hotel in Voznesensky lane and the building of the Jewish community complex in Spasoglinischevsk

The Museum of Architecture on Vozdvizhenka hosts two exhibitions dedicated, in fact, to ruins - one to relatives and friends, crumbling Russian estates, and the other to very distant cities of the provinces of Ancient Rome. Both expositions almost ideally "took root" in the museum space, but it is curious that they act in the opposite way: little-known even for art historians, Roman ruins approach the viewer and seem to become a little clearer, and the manor houses move away, probably tending there

Yesterday, the House of Architects hosted an anniversary evening dedicated to the publication of the hundredth issue of the oldest Russian architectural magazine of modern times, which no doubt can now be called one of the leading professional publications, "Architectural Bulletin"

It must be very interesting for architects to work in modern Russia - they have to master new formats of real estate all the time, and often they do this together with developers. One of the examples of such hitherto unfamiliar typologies is small suburban settlements of medium-rise business class. There are very few such projects so far, and one of them has been completed by the Panakom bureau

The press is vividly discussing the Orange project. Norman Foster's bureau project, shown by Elena Baturina at MIPIM, so far only in the form of a concept that will possibly participate in a tender for the reconstruction of a building on Krymsky Val, of course, should be understood as a loud application. She has already caused a resonance. Below we publish the full text of the open statement of the director of the Tretyakov Gallery and the leadership of the International Confederation of Artists' Unions

The competition concept of a multifunctional complex on the embankment of the Moskva River, opposite the City, in the version proposed by Dmitry Alexandrov looks like a reflection on the topic of "basic elements": he accentuates the water in the river, lifts the ground onto the roofs of buildings and manipulates the space, doubling it

In the multi-part epic around the infamous Narkomfin house-commune on Novinsky Boulevard, it seems that the final has come: the house will be preserved, restored and a boutique hotel will be placed in it. The joint project of the MIAN group of companies, the new owner of the house, and Alexei Ginzburg, the grandson of the famous constructivist architect, together with the Ginzburg Architects LLC workshop, will become the first commercial project in Moscow for the scientific restoration of the avant-garde monument

At the architectural council, two projects were considered and approved: the multi-functional complex Media Center of the DNA group and again - a pre-design proposal for the ITAR-TASS building on Dorogomilovskaya

The multifunctional complex on Leningradskoe Shosse is an architectural concept made by Dmitry Alexandrov's studio in 2005, but it remained, as often happens, in a "suspended" state - the work will either continue or not. Therefore, the project was not published, although, if you think about it, it reveals a rather curious combination of scale and laconism, referring the viewer either to the works of one of the best architects of modernism of the Brezhnev era, Leonid Pavlov, or

The other day the urban planning laboratory 'URBANLAB' held a seminar at the Moscow Architectural Institute, dedicated to the new concept of the city of Genoa. The laboratory was founded by Renzo Piano, one of the high-tech leaders and a native of Genoa, in order to find new ways to transform his hometown

The results of an open architectural competition for the design of a new museum center in Perm, organized by the Center for Contemporary Architecture (C: SA), have been summed up. The main prize was divided in half by the Swiss architect Valerio Oljati and Boris Bernasconi. The third prize was awarded to Zaha Hadid. Peter Noever rejoices "that he was still alive", Peter Zumthor proposed to build a separate museum for Perm wooden sculpture, and style preferences are changing not in favor of digitality

Today, the office complex on Valovaya Street is known to Muscovites, first of all, as a long-term unfinished building, more than half covered with billboards and banners. But the author of the project, architect Pavel Andreev, does not lose hope that the building will be completed and become part of the front building of the Garden Ring

In Samara, the construction of a large shopping center designed by the German architect Jurgen Wilen has been completed. The building is subordinated to its commercial functions - convenient parking, four atriums, and a functional navigation system. The main feature of the project is a showcase facade, entirely reserved for advertising

At a press conference yesterday, the chief architect of Moscow and chairman of the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Architecture, Alexander Kuzmin, told reporters about the plans of the Moscow government to develop the social infrastructure of the capital for the next "five-year" period - from 2007 to 2012. Apparently, the capital is abandoning the policy of shifting social facilities onto the shoulders of investors, and plans to build schools, clinics and libraries by 90-75% at the expense of the city budget

We asked well-known Moscow architects and members of the public two questions - do they like the Orange project by Foster's studio and whether, in their opinion, it is necessary to preserve the existing building of the Central House of Artists / State Tretyakov Gallery, built in the 70s by architects Nikolai Sukoyan and Yuri Sheverdyaev. We are publishing a blitz interview with Yuri Avvakumov, Evgeny Ass, Yuri Grigoryan, Bart Goldhoorn, Nikolai Lyzlov, David Sargsyan and Mikhail Khazanov

Master Plan 2025 is definitely the most talked about. Still - when other general plans were approved, the concept of "PR" in our country was not so developed. The general plan is updated, discussed, covered; there is even a good unofficial site. Last Friday, another presentation of the general plan took place - Moskomarkhitektura and the Moscow Perspective newspaper organized a round table with the participation of Oleg Baevsky

A. Asadov's workshop is finishing work on a project for a new residential complex on Nakhimovsky Prospekt. Its architectural solution is most directly related to the specifics of the site. In the fight against underground vicissitudes, the architects had to raise two buildings, united by a stylobate, 8 meters above the ground, turning the huge complex into a kind of fabulous "flying ship" with two towers-masts and glass sails

The concept of the Ostrov multifunctional center in Nizhny Novgorod fully justifies its typological affiliation - it really has a lot of different functions. Outwardly, this complex resembles a giant liner "grown" into the ground of the peninsula opposite the Pechersky Monastery

Yesterday, at Winzavod, the Center for Contemporary Architecture (C: SA) together with the Domus magazine celebrated the publication of the first Russian-language issue of this world-famous publication about architecture, design, interiors and art, and was celebrated creatively and on a grand scale. Irina Korobyina, now the guest editor of the Russian Domus, brought to the Winery the main character of the issue - the famous American critic Aaron A. Betsky, curator of the XI Venice Biennale - 2008 and director of the Museum of Art in Cincinnati, but

Yesterday the rector of the Moscow Architectural Institute Dmitry Shvidkovsky and the masters of Russian architecture awarded the winners of the student competition for the project of a social residential house for the elderly called "Old age in joy". The competition, organized by the students of the Moscow Architectural Institute for the same students and supervised by the rector of the institute, gave the opportunity to nine students, the authors of five winning projects, to go on an internship in Japan. At the same time, he demonstrated the inertness of the bulk of students to such creativity

Tomorrow, at the conference of the Union of Moscow Architects, the re-election of the President of the Union of Architects will take place. It is possible that the former Union of Moscow Architects is becoming a thing of the past. Probably, the elections are an opportunity to influence its subsequent development. At a round table held last Tuesday at the Central House of Artists, four candidates voiced the main theses of their election programs, and the fifth rejected

Today many Russian companies are starting to work in Kiev - these are publishing houses, restaurateurs, and, of course, developers, and behind them architects. One of the most recent examples is Sergey Skuratov's competitive work on the reconstruction of the territory of a former shoe factory located in the historical center of Kiev, directly opposite the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Architects import to the Ukrainian capital not only their corporate identity with a complex facade pattern and an attentive attitude to the texture of materials, but also

Last week, the Moscow Society for the Protection of Architectural Heritage (MAPS) held a press conference at MUAR, inviting representatives of various security organizations, private charitable foundations and the public to talk about the results of joint activities over the past two years since the largest international conference Heritage at Risk "(Heritage in danger) in April 2006

The second prize for young architects "Perspective" was presented at the House of Architects yesterday evening. The craftsmen made way for the young, determined the degree of their participation in projects and awarded them with membership in the Union of Architects

An exhibition with a fashionable name "Fashion Architects" opened the other day in the VKHUTEMAS gallery. 15 conceptual models of skyscrapers, cut from plywood using a laser, defile in the synthetic space of a light and music installation, embodying the theme of changing fashion in architecture. For the first time these models were shown to the audience at the beginning of last summer at ARCH-Moscow

Studying the paradoxes of Ilya Utkin's creativity, Anatoly Belov discovered symmetry without symmetry in the project of the villa "Gorki-2"

The project of the quarter at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Lykovsky Proezd is a mini-city consisting of several diverse parts. The existence of which, both joint and separate, is carefully planned, and the appearance is distinguished by the fancy plasticity of volumes

Continuing to study the paradoxes of the classics of Ilya Utkin, Anatoly Belov found in the project of a villa near the dacha of the Academy of Sciences in Zvenigorod "a facade without a facade"

For its new project in Nikolina Sloboda, the Panakom bureau proposes a harmonious legend, assigning the characteristics of four elements to 4 volumes of construction. The result is a decoratively processed picture of the world, surprisingly pleasant in its static nature. The architects returned to their previously strict style, diluting it with concrete patterns and ornamental appliqué

ArtPlay, a well-known and familiar design center in Moscow, is moving from Krasnaya Rose in Park Kultury to the building of the Manometer plant in Kurskaya. The concept of a center that brings architects together in one building with their suppliers and subcontractors - and thus ensures a smooth creative process - will be developed and improved upon relocation. The new building, which is three times larger than the previous one, will be ready to receive tenants in early 2009

At a press conference held today, the concept of the exposition of the Russian pavilion at the XI Venice Biennale was announced. The author of the idea - Grigory Revzin - for the first time decided to show at the Biennale the modern architecture of Russia, real buildings and projects awaiting implementation

One of America's most famous architects, Helmut Jan, who studied under the legendary Mies van der Rohe, visited Moscow this week. The architect held his master class in the Federation tower under construction at the invitation of C: SA and Mirax Group, which is no coincidence: he recently started working on a Russian project for Mirax, although he has not yet revealed details. Helmut Jahn devoted his speech to a new approach to architecture, which he calls "Archinerium". Its features, according to the architect

Construction of an office building designed by Alexei Bavykin begins on Mozhaisk highway. According to the author, at the last stage he managed to make significant changes that made it possible to better reveal an important topic for the architect

Archi.ru is the official media partner of the Russian pavilion at the XI Venice Biennale. With this material, we begin a series of interviews with architects participating in the exposition of the Russian pavilion, which will be published in the “Venetian” catalog. It so happened that the exhibition of the architectural company "Sergei Kiselev and Partners", which were named "Architects of the Year" last summer, will become part of the Arch-Moscow, which will start next Monday

Christoph Kohl designs and implements large urban development projects in the Netherlands. The architect illustrated his own concept of urbanism with Dutch projects of recent years

Christian Sumi gave a lecture on simple Swiss architecture at the Moscow Biennale

The Central House of Artists has opened a traditional spring architectural exhibition - "Arch Moscow". Now part of the Moscow Architecture Biennale. The exposition of the first Moscow Biennale is diverse to the point that one asks the question - how can all this be together? But all these people have one thing in common - they seem to have stopped laughing

The International Pavilion of the Moscow Biennale of Architecture left the most important questions unanswered