Garage Centre for Contemporary Arts Pavilion / Artem Kitaev, Nikolay Martynov, Leonid Slonimskiy, Maxim Spivakov, Artem Staborovskiy
Architects: Artem Kitaev, Nikolay Martynov, Leonid Slonimskiy, Maxim Spivakov, Artem Staborovskiy
Location: Gorky Park, ул. Крымский Вал, 9, город Москва, Russia
Project Year: 2012
Project Area: 600 sqm
Photographs: Yuriy Palmin
Oval shade in Gorky Park / Bureau Alexander Brodsky
Architects: Bureau Alexander Brodsky
Location: Gorky Park, ул. Крымский Вал, 9, город Москва, Russia, 119049
Design Team: À. Brodsky, N. Korbut
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Yuri Palmin
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Smolenka “Oak Tube’’ Apartment / Peter Kostelov
Architect: Kostelov Peter
Location: Moscow, Russia
Project Area: 110 sqm
Photographs: Zinon Razutdinov
‘Santiago Calatrava: The Quest for Movement’ Exhibition
Today marks the opening of world-renowned architect, Santiago Calatrava’s unprecedented exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Not only will Calatrava become the first contemporary architect to have a retrospective exhibition at the Hermitage, but this will also be one of his largest and most extensive exhibitions to date. Curated by Cristina Carillo de Albornoz and Ksenia Malich, the exhibition will examine Calatrava’s innovative style through his various artistic realms. From never-before-seen paintings and sculptures to celebrated architectural models and sketches spanning Calatrava’s 30- plus year career, the exhibition will give individuals a unique opportunity to explore the inner workings and creative process of this celebrated artist. More images and information on the event after the break.
Winners selected for round two of the Moscow City Agglomeration Competition
The international team, lead by well-known Russian urbanist Andrey Chernikhov, and including McAdam Architects, Tower 151, Georgi Stanishev and Ginsburg Architects placed first in round two of the Moscow City Agglomeration Development Concept competition. The winning consortium sparked debate by suggesting Moscow officials should consider redeveloping the abundant brown field sites and other available infill spaces within the existing city boundaries before proposing new development. They highlighted vast areas occupied by goods railways and disused industrial sites from Soviet times as prime areas for regeneration and expansion, as well as a re-thinking of transport networks to alleviate pressure on existing systems.
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Design Competition for Russian Artist Residence and Community
Archpolis, a non-profit organization for architects, designers, artists and the performing arts, has invited architects and planners to submit their qualifications for the first stage of a design competition in Nikola-Lenivets Park in the Kaluga Region of Russia. Fifteen finalists will be chosen for the second stage of the competition with the objective to provide a conceptual design of a residential complex for artist in residence, along with a master plan and zoning details for the surrounding area.
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AD Classics: Melnikov House / Konstantin Melnikov
The Melnikov House by architect Konstantin Melnikov is a classic residence that represents the forefront of the 1920’s Russian avant-garde. Located on Krivoarbatsky Lane in the then trendy district of Arbat, Moscow on an open lot, its aesthetics differ dramatically from traditional Soviet residential architecture. More details after the break.
House in Tarussa / Bureau Alexander Brodsky
Architects: Bureau Alexander Brodsky
Location: Kaluga, Tarusa, Russia
Photographs: Yuri Palmin
Kazan Yandex Office / za bor Architects
Architects: za bor Architects, Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev
Location: Kazan, Russia
Interior Design: Nadezhda Rozhanskaya
Floor Area: 674 sqm
Completion: 2012
Photographs: Peter Zaytsev
ArchDaily lecture series in Moscow, Russia
After great lectures at the Escola da Cidade in Sao Paulo and the Center for Architecture in New York, this week ArchDaily is heading to Moscow to lecture at three important institutions: The High School of Design (May 31st), the State Museum of Architecture (June 1st) and the Strelka Institute (June 3rd).
More information about the lectures after the break, including links to register for each event.
We look forward to meet and connect with Russian architects and architecture students in Moscow!
Block No.5 Residential Area in ‘Skolkovo’ Innovative Center / TOTEMENT | PAPER
Designed by TOTEMENT | PAPER, the residential area in Block No.5, as part of District D2 (“Science & Technology Park”) of “Skolkovo” Innovative Center, occupies a special area as it is the gate to the district and the main design point facing the Skolkovskoye Highway side. The architectural concept has been worked out to be presented at the second round of the competition. They took into the account close location of crowded housings of circles No.2 and 4 by closing our circle at their side. Bends of buildings allowed them to extend essentially the light front of the buildings and to get the necessary area for housing. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Video: Bar Strelka / Strelka Institute
Minutes from the Kremlin lies Bar Strelka, a revisited loft space housed in a former confectionery factory, which serves as a hub for the students of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. Formerly heading the institution’s educational programme was world renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, now one of the five research theme directors. The institute’s aim is to develop fresh perspectives on key issues in contemporary Russia, bringing architects, intellectuals and designers together under one roof. Roman Mazurenko, the Special Projects Director shows Crane.tv around the bar and chats to them about the institute’s programme and why it will revolutionise Moscow’s landscape.
OMA to design new home for Garage in Moscow
The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture – a non-profit international arts space based in Moscow founded by Daria Zhukova – has unveiled plans for a new building in Gorky Park. Designed by OMA, Garage Gorky Park will renovate the famous 1960s Vremena Goda (Seasons of the Year) restaurant, a prefabricated concrete structure that has been derelict for more than two decades. Garage is expected to complete and occupy this 5,400-square-meter building sometime next year, with plans to later expand to the nearby Hexagon pavilion (or Machine Pavilion).
Rem Koolhaas: “We were able, with our client and her team, to explore the qualities of generosity, dimension, openness, and transparency of the Soviet wreckage and find new uses and interpretations for them; it also enabled us to avoid the exaggeration of standards and scale that is becoming an aspect of contemporary art spaces.”
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Stadium for Russia’s 2018 World Cup / GUP MNIIP “Mosproject-4” + HKS Architects
The winning proposal for the design of a stadium for Russia’s 2018 World Cup was created by the design institute “Mosproject-4″ from Russia and HKS Architects from the United States. The main characteristics of the stadium include an innovative constructive decision, increased comfort for both the audience and athletes, and sustainability strategies. More images and architects’ description after the break.
OMA wins first round of the Moscow City Agglomeration Development Concept Competition
In 2011, the Russian Federation Council confirmed that the city of Moscow will annex 150,000 hectares to the southwest in order to overcome its chronic space problems, making Moscow 2.4 times larger than its current size. The expansion is designed to relieve pressure on the over-populated, historic city center by redistributing the working places to the annexed part of the Moscow Oblast, thus addressing transport, ecological and social issues that result from high levels of commuting.
Before Moscow’s new administrative borders come into force this July, the Council invited 10 teams to develop the concept of the Moscow Agglomeration. OMA has been announced as winner of the competition’s first round that focused on a plan for the Moscow Agglomeration as a whole.
Continue reading for more on OMA’s Moscow City Agglomeration Development Concept.
Mirror Mongayt / BERNASKONI
Architects: BERNASKONI
Location: Moscow, Russia
Area: 270 sqm
Client: Mongayt family
Photographs: Vlad Efimov, Boris Bernaskoni
Skolkovo Technopark District D2 Residential Area / Saltans Architects_International + Jaeger and Partner Architects
Chicago based Saltans Architects_Intl., ltd (SA_I) and Shenzhen based Jaeger and Partner Architects, Ltd. design collaboration was recently selected for the second stage international design competition for the Skolkovo Technopark District D2 Residential Area. Their master plan design envisions the “concept of the city at human scale with a strong relationship with nature”. Five distinct Districts comprising this planning strategy are separated and linked by natural landscapes, while each District’s master plan is designed specifically for function. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Moscow School of Management / Adjaye Associates & AB Studios
Architect: Adjaye Associates & AB Studios
Location: Skolkovo, Russia
Area: 42,891 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Ed Reeve, Adjaye Associates & AB Studios
Shortlist for the Moscow City Agglomeration Development Concept
The Architectural Department of Moscow City Government (MosComArhitectura) has announced the shortlisted teams competing to design the strategy that will be used to double the size of Moscow. With an uneven distribution of working places throughout the Russian Federation capital, millions of residents are forced to commute each day to the over-populated, historic city center, thus causing serious transportation, ecological and social problems within the region.
The Moscow City Agglomeration Development Concept will see the city annex 150,316 hectares to its south-west in order to overcome its chronic space problems. OMA, Diller Scofidio & Renfro and McAdam Architects, lead by the well-known Russian architects Andrey Chernihov and Alexei Ginsburg, are a few names that appear among the ten shortlisted teams. Continue reading for more competition details and the entire shortlist.
Office Building On Leninsky / Sergey Tchoban + Sergey Kuznetsov
Architects: Sergey Tchoban, Sergey Kuznetsov
Location: Moscow, Russia
Chief Architects: Sergey Kuznetsov
Chief Project Engineer: Makukhina Lyudmila
Architect Team: Andrey Perlich, Tatiana Varyukhina, Anastasia Kozyreva, Tatiana Lokteva, Evgenia Murinets
Complex’s Total Area: 17,596 sqm
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Yuri Palmin, Aborkin Zakhar, Iliya Ivanov
Bar-Studio Kluchi / Peter Kostelov, Alexey Rozenberg, Anton Grechko
Architects:Peter Kostelov, Alexey Rozenberg, Anton Grechko
Location: Moscow, Russia
Design Team: Peter Kostelov, Alexey Rozenberg, Anton Grechko
Floor Area: 300 sqm
Project Date: 2011
Photographs: Alexey Knyazev
