Object
Faceted Grisaille
A new building on the Kulneva Street, next to "Mirax Plaza": the geometry of sharp shadows, glistening lights, and the shades of mature modernist techniques - all reminds about the fact that the new building occupies the place of a former seventies predecessor.
SPEECH
  • Tatiana Pashintseva Julia Tarabarina
  • April 28, 2015
Object
A Rhombus Blitz
The contest project for a residential block situated on the site of Annenhof Grove by “4izmerenie” bureau is an example of combining striking futuristic towers with a humane solution of an urban environment and with evenly distributed functions.
4izmerenie
  • April 29, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
Object
Radiant Concept
Based on the visual and landscape survey that later on became a valuable part of the concept in its own right, the architects of "Ostozhenka" Bureau proposed to keep 85% of the views of the St Simon Monastery seen from the embankment, at the same time increasing the height of the residential buildings.
Ostozhenka Bureau, Gillespies
  • April 27, 2015
  • Anna Starostina
Object
Saturating the Landscape
In Vissarionov’s project, the Federal Sports Centre looks either as if it has landed from outer space and grew into the soil or as if it has hatched from the ground. One thing is clear, though: the authors’ wish to inosculate three cities: a small-scale district, a big, slightly abrupt industrial one – and the city of the future, in this case a sports city.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • April 15, 2015
  • Anna Gorodinskaya Julia Tarabarina
Object
The Masterstroke
Olzhas Kuzembaev turned a reception desk into an art object making the plywood snake rule the entire small space of the entrance lobby of the office of MGPM Company in Moscow area's town of Mytischi.
Totan
  • April 2, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Smart Framework
Yet another feature article on Tomsk Science and Technology Museum: Nikita Yavein used the flexibility of the architectural language of avant-garde wooden structures for conveying numerous meanings. The project ended up being a charade but its very language came alive.
Company:
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • March 23, 2015
Object
A Museum That Reaches for the Stars
A museum above the park, a park of a museum, or the museum building as an exhibit in its own right... Three versions of the contest project of the Science Museum in the city of Tomsk - by Asadov Architectural Bureau.
  • March 23, 2015
  • Anna Gorodinskaya
Contest Results
Science for People
In this issue, we publish the projects by the finalists of the contest for the best architectural and town-planning concept of Science and Technology Museum in Tomsk.
  • March 23, 2015
  • Polina Sadova
Object
Sport Style Urbanist Glazing
The concept of developing the Luzhnetskaya Embankment: laconic and mobile proposal for equipping part of the city with modern sports facilities.
WOWHAUS
  • March 18, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
Object
Transformation
The project named "RASSVET LOFT*STUDIO" by DNK ag is a fine example of including a factory building into the city fabric.
Archstruktura, DNK Architectural Group
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • March 16, 2015
Object
​Closer to Nature
The architectural bureau PANACOM presents a country housing project consisting of four differentiated clusters that bring together the coziness of the rustication, diversity of urban territories, environmental friendliness, and the individuality of designer solutions.
  • March 17, 2015
  • Anna Yevstigneeva
Object
Engineering Oasis
The engineering system of the renovated swimming complex of "Luzhniki" designed by Engex as part of Asadov Consortium: the optimum balance between comfort and cost/energy efficiency.
  • March 13, 2015
  • Natalia Volkova
Object
Crystallization of a Junction
At the junction of Moscow Ring Road and the Rublev Shosse, the construction of an administrative and business center designed by Sergey Kiselev has been completed.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • March 11, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
Object
Plane of Refraction
The project of the second stage of the complex "Zapadnye Vorota" ("Western Gate"), located north of the Mozhaisk Highway, develops the theme of the modern European architecture that has already been successfully implemented in the first stage of this large-scale project.
ABD architects
  • March 10, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Iron Dragon
Proposed by Totan Kuzembaev Bureau, its futurist three-dimensional shell completely transformed the image of a simple parallelepiped of roadside shopping mall.
Totan, Totan Kuzembaev Architectural Studio
  • March 5, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Grown from the Context
The building at 5 Pobedy Street revises the ideas of Stalin architecture of this area in a better material quality. The architects did not neglect the deeper roots, though, either.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners
  • February 26, 2015
Contest Results
"Lenigradka" Embankment
In this issue, we are covering the projects prepared by the winners and the finalists of the contest for the best concept of "Dimamo" Boulevard in Moscow.
  • March 3, 2015
  • Polina Sadova
Object
Moscow Volga
The multistory addition to the hotel complex "Volga": yet another version of imitating a fully-fledged city within the confines of a single building. And, as is always the case with ADM, shifting the accents to landscaping its territory.
  • February 25, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Antidote for the Evil
Designing a project of the memorial complex on the territory of the former Auschwitz death camp gave "Arch Group" a pause for thought as to what turns millions of people not only into victims but also into executioners. The architects call this memorial complex on the territory of the former death camp "an anti-evil injection".
Arch Group
  • February 24, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
The Wings of a Seagull
The architectural group DNK took part in the international contest for the building of the Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki. The solution that was submitted to the judging board proposes possible ways of the further development of the principles of the Scandinavian architecture.
DNK Architectural Group
  • February 23, 2015
  • Anna Starostina
Object
Viable Unit
A version of a mobile modular house with a protective "shell" of the easily transformable roof and a stunning variety of possible functions - from residential to office
Totan
  • February 16, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Uncovering the Essence
Reconstructing a theater building, and not just any theater but one that is aimed at creating a synthesis of tradition and innovation, is a task as challenging as it is exciting but nonetheless making perfect sense for Wowhaus Bureau that has for long specialized in designing public territories.
WOWHAUS
  • February 6, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
Report
Color of Memory
The expo space of the Jan Vanriet exhibition called "Losing Face" was designed by Sergey Tchoban and Agnia Sterligova.
SPEECH
  • February 9, 2015
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
In Two Layers
One block away from the Donskoy Monastery, Sergey Skuratov has designed a double-part residential house in the image of which the architect develops his favorite technique of a dialogue between the materials.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • February 11, 2015
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Sunstroke: Avant-garde of the XXI Century
A daring plastic play with the volume of a giant multi-apartment complex just outside of Moscow: a sophisticated silhouette, impressive views and a beautiful-looking reminder of the fact that avant-garde is our all.
Ostozhenka Bureau
  • Alla Pavlikova
  • February 4, 2015
Object
Waves Rolling Down the Avenue
Two houses embracing the building of "Sputnik" Hotel at the Leninsky Avenue: the new urban ensemble reacts to the traffic flow with plastic waves of the facades, concealing a cozy "courtyard" square inside.
ADM
  • February 5, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Review
Forum within a Forum
January 16, Berlin Architectural Gallery opened the exhibition “Wowhaus – Architecture for Communication”.
WOWHAUS
  • January 27, 2015
  • Anna Kirikova
Object
Apartment Hotel in "New World"
A story about architects reconstructing their own unfinished building that stands at the entrance of a villa community.
Arkhstroydesign ASD
  • January 27, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Review
Empire of Enlightenment, Not a Military Parade
The book about the reconstruction of the Joint Staff reveals various aspects of the project that proposed a unique for the contemporary architecture approach to museum transformation - and quite an unconventional outlook of the very meaning of the imperial glory.
OMA, Company:
  • January 26, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
Object
A Settlement on a Peninsula
Las-Vegas near Minsk or just a settlement on the bank of a water reservoir: that is the question. Arkhstroydesign is designing for Belorussia.
Arkhstroydesign ASD
  • January 22, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Picturesque Pragmatism
We publish two planning projects by "Archstroydesign" Bureau of Aleksey Ivanov. In this particlular issue - new urbanism and a little bit of an English park straddling the Pakhra River.
Arkhstroydesign ASD
  • January 22, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
The Red Park
About the contest-winning project of "Mitino" Park.
ARTEZA, FORM
  • December 31, 2014
  • Tatiana Timofeeva
Object
The Genius of an Important Place
The architects of “Ostozhenka” Bureau examined the Volkhonka areas and proposed not only a number of ideas making the history of this place more visible but also some new approaches to working with historical centers of Russian cities.
Ostozhenka Bureau
  • December 30, 2014
  • Anna Starostina Julia Tarabarina
Object
​Link of Times
A housing development on the Peschanaya Street consists of three streamlined volumes. Their architectural plot interacts with its surroundings and is based on smooth transition from serious classical notes to “guardedly modernistic” freedom.
4izmerenie
  • December 29, 2014
  • Alla Pavlikova
Report
​Moscow Council of Architecture - 22
A regular Council of Architecture took place shortly before the New Year’s Eve, on December 24. It considered and unanimously approved the project of a multifunctional complex on the Paveletskaya Embankment – a work by Sergey Skuratov Architects.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • December 25, 2014
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Image Transformation
The house at the Chapaeva Street presents a dramatized intervention of the northern “Art Nouveau” into the mottled context of the former industrial park of Saint Petersburg's Petrograd Side.
A-Len
  • December 23, 2014
  • Julia Tarabarina
View
Mysteries of the Russian Soul
The participants of "Zodchestvo" Festival were able to shift its precarious theme of "national identity" into the only possible sane area: nervous self-analysis bordering on the grotesque. With a moveless countenance.
  • December 19, 2014
  • Julia Tarabarina
Contest Results
"Sportmaster" and "O’stin"
In this issue, we are publishing the works of the finalists and other participants of the closed tender for the design concept of the HQ's of "Sportmaster" and "O’stin" companies that, at the decision of the judging panel, was extended by one month.
  • December 17, 2014
Object
World Structure
"Python House" - a project done by PANACOM Bureau - became the prize winner of the PinWin competition in the nomination "Best Modern Interior". This architectural solution of a country house - bright and unconventional - stands up against the traditional villa style of the houses of the settlement of "Nikolskaya Sloboda" located at the Novorizhskoe Highway.
PANACOM
  • December 17, 2014
  • Anna Yevstigneeva
Contest Results
Six Projects for the Riverfront Development
In this issue, we are publishing all the concepts proposed by the participants of one of the most prominent contests of the year: one for the development of the riverfront of the Moskva River. [upd: the new pictures “Ostozhenka” bureau]
  • Alla Pavlikova
  • December 12, 2014
Object
Motivated Brightness
Designed by "A.Len" Bureau, the residential complex on the Vasilyevsky Island can be understood as a modern transcription of a Saint Petersburg residential quarter.
  • December 15, 2014
  • Anna Gorodinskaya
Report
Pixels of Memory
The Museum of Architecture opened an exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the architectural bureau “Ostozhenka”. A big anniversary – after all, a quarter of a century – but the exhibition is small.
  • December 10, 2014
  • Tatiana Pashintseva