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
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".
  • 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
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
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
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
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
Review
Forum within a Forum
January 16, Berlin Architectural Gallery opened the exhibition β€œWowhaus – 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 β€œOstozhenka” 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 β€œguardedly 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 β€œArt 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 β€œOstozhenka” 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 β€œOstozhenka”. A big anniversary – after all, a quarter of a century – but the exhibition is small.
  • December 10, 2014
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
Object
Honing the Principles
A new experiment in the field of panel construction: master plan and architecture by the recognized architects plus facades developed by the young contest-winners.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners, SPEECH, Tchoban Voss Architekten
  • Anna Gorodinskaya
  • November 28, 2014
Object
​Spectrum Analysis
Architectural bureau ADM (stands for "Architectural Dialogue with a Megalopolis") entered this time into a dialogue with the educational system and built in Moscow-area's Mamontovka a school for some 350 students.
ADM
  • Anna Gorodinskaya
  • November 26, 2014
Object
​Equally Different
A story of two villas for two brothers – the buildings were recently completed upon the project of DNK - shared by their authors.
DNK Architectural Group
  • Tatiana Timofeeva
  • November 24, 2014
Object
Suburban Gems
Architectural bureau PANACOM introduced a project of a new suburban complex.
  • November 20, 2014
  • Anna Yevstigneeva
Object
​Incrustation of a Moscow Street
Renovating a house in the north-west part of Moscow, the ADM Architects built a piece of London into the sleepy Moscow context.
ADM
  • November 12, 2014
  • Julia Tarabarina
Object
​In the Rhythm of a Moscow Yard
Bavykin's architectural studio is getting back to the project of the apartment hotel in the Electrichesky Alley.
Bavykin architects
  • November 7, 2014
  • Anna Gorodinskaya Julia Tarabarina
News
​A Park within a City
The new complex on the Lenigrad Highway recently finished by ADM architects makes great play with its border-line location between the highway and the green area by the Moskva River bank.
ADM
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
  • October 29, 2014
Object
​Copper Mountains
The neighborhood of mid-rise residential houses in the suburbs of Yekaterinburg looks like as an "urbanized" embodiment of the Ural landscape.
Arhitekturium
  • November 6, 2014
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Contest Results
​Consolidating Gains
This year, the list of the regional laureates of International Property Awards includes over two dozen of Russian projects. For the next stage of the contest, entitled "The World's Best" - only twelve will be short-listed.
ABD architects, DNK Architectural Group, Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners, SPEECH, UNK, Arkhstroydesign ASD, Π’+Π’ Architects,
  • October 23, 2014
  • Alyona Kuznetsova
Contest Results
In the Spirit of Bazhov
A churinga-belt along the outside line of the quarter, a hidden garden and a hotel inside the wonderland of the courtyard: Π’+Π’ architects won the contest for the renovation of the complex of the Ural Instrument-making Plant in the city of Ekaterinburg.
Π’+Π’ Architects
  • October 21, 2014
  • Anna Gorodinskaya
Object
Manifestation of the Myth
A story about the contest concept of the giant park "Olonkho Land" in Yakutia, or about how the ancient cult gives birth to modern plastics... For the permafrost, the architects proposed the buildings in the form of a cup constricting downward.
ATRIUM
  • October 18, 2014
  • Julia Tarabarina
Object
​Leaf Code
In the Nauchny Proezd, an office center has been remodeled upon the project by ADM achitects.
ADM
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • October 16, 2014
Object
​A Tale of a Town
The first stage of a β€œMicrocity in the Forest” has been built. The project is a manifesto in many ways, that is why this event is worthy of notice
, SPEECH
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • October 14, 2014
Object
Growing a City
The project that won the first prize in the contest for the concept of Koenigsberg's center
Company:,
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • October 17, 2014
Interview
Diffusions of Design
Arseny Leonovich shares about the mutual penetration of architecture and design, the challenges of today, and about his drive and motivation.
  • October 7, 2014
  • Anna Yevstigneeva