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Green Caverns
In the under-construction apartment house at the Staroalekseevskaya Street, the architectural bureau ADM is in charge not only of creating comfortable apartments but also unique green public areas.
ADM
  • April 22, 2013
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
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Golden Expo Sail
This year, the Saint Petersburg project of "Expoforum" developed by Eugene Gerasimov and Sergey Choban has entered the phase of active implementation. According to the renovated version of the project, the Shushary congress and exhibition complex will get golden facades and impressive parabolic marquees.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners, SPEECH
  • April 24, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Office Drive
"SPEECH Choban&Kuznetsov" Bureau continues with the implementation of the interior design project for the offices of VTB Bank in the "Federation" Complex. Yet another, the 59th floor is completed.
SPEECH
  • April 25, 2013
  • Elena Petukhova
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Balanced Decisions
The company Homeland Group worked together with the French bureau AREP and Setec in the development of a master plan for the innovation center Skolkovo. Homeland Group adapted the ideas of their French colleagues to the Russian reality.
  • April 18, 2013
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Wooden Mop of Hair
The contest project of an apart-hotel on the shore of the Adriatic Sea, developed by Totan Kuzembaev, has been awarded the Special Jury Prize
  • April 17, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
The Art of Rigid Boundaries
The Architectural Workshop ADM turned an obsolete protracted construction into a modern office center.
ADM
  • April 15, 2013
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
Object
A Hut in a Pine Forest
This laconic volume hidden amidst the pine trees is the smallest-area one of all the houses ever built by Roman Leonidov.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • April 10, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Interview
Julius Borisov: UNK Project: western principles in Russian architecture.
"UNK Project" Bureau that celebrated its 15th birthday last year is the rare example of a Russian company that was organized and that operates according to the western model - operates successfully. Which fundamentals were borrowed by the Russian architects from their western colleagues and how the Russian architects were able to implement these fundamentals into the domestic practice - about this we are talking with one of the founders of the company, architect Julius Borisov.
  • April 9, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Vitamin Complex
The ADM architects have come up with a project, according to which the complex of buildings of the former Research Institute for Vitamins turns into an up-to-date and comfortable business park. This is yet another project by this bureau that implements the sustainability principles into Moscow's everyday life. All the artistic devices that were accessible to the authors were used for the embodiment of the symbiosis of Nature and Human Knowledge.
  • April 8, 2013
  • Anna Garanenko
Caspian Sea Oasis
The simple and functional volume of the hotel building is not only surrounded by a garden - it grows together with it, or rather, almost literally, grows OUT of it.
  • March 25, 2013
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Stylish Improvement
This summer, the architectural workshop ADM is completing the project of renovating a 1950s administrative building, which is to drastically change its appearance.
  • March 18, 2013
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
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A Different Ostozhenka
Having responded to all the themes that were set by its architectural context, the new bank building in the Butikovsky Side-street still does not look lost amidst its neighbors. Quite the contrary: one can regard this new building as the old Ostozhenka's breakthrough into the company of the glamorous "golden mile".
Ostozhenka Bureau
  • March 14, 2013
  • Julia Tarabarina
The Reindeer
Over a year ago, the architectural bureau “City Arch” completed the construction of a three-star hotel “Cariboo” in Beloyarsky. Named after the animal that symbolizes the fauna of the Khanty-Mansiysk region, the hotel even looks like a stately deer.
City-Arch
  • March 14, 2013
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
Collected Works
Designing a large residential project for Odintsovo area of Moscow region, Alexey Ivanov’s Workshop “Arkhstroydesign ASD” has developed several layouts of building.
Arkhstroydesign ASD
  • March 13, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
In Rhythm with City, in Balance with Nature
The business center designed by Andrew Romanov and Ekaterina Kuznetsova continues the "green" line of ADM Bureau projects that implement the ideas of interaction and mutual respect between architecture and nature.
ADM
  • March 11, 2013
  • Alla Pavlikova
Tree of the House
The architectural collection of the resort “Pirogovo” was once again replenished with a house named “Fan” designed by Totan Kuzembaev workshop and built on the bank of the Klyazma lake.
Totan
  • March 7, 2013
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
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Timber, logs and glass
Having obtained the comission to design a log house, Roman Leonidov built a cottage reconsidering the traditional image of “izba” (a traditional Russian countryside log house) in the mainstream of contemporary ideas about the layout and development of suburban housing.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • Anna Martovitskaya
  • February 20, 2013
Object
Geometry of Comfort
Moscow area is seeing the construction of a new country house built by the project of Roman Leonidov architectural studio; the project is based on the principle of being at one with the universe.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • March 4, 2013
  • Alla Pavlikova
Density as a Style
While he was designing a low-rise district named "Andersen" in "New Moscow" area, architect Vladimir Binderman tried to envisage how this small town would look like if it had been designed by, say, the great-grandson of the famous fairy tale writer.
Arhitekturium
  • March 5, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Compatibility Test
ABD Architects has designed a multifunctional medical center in Shchepkina street in Moscow.
ABD architects
  • Tatyana Anfilova
  • February 11, 2013
Object
Lizard's Tale
In spite of all the restrictions that were raining on them from all sides, Vera Butko and Anton Nadtochy were able to build a kindergarten that looks like a toy fairy tale palace. How were they able to do that? Let us find out!
ATRIUM
  • Alla Pavlikova
  • February 14, 2013
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The Art of Being Different
АВV Group architects have designed a parking building in “Krylatsky Hills” Business Park. The parking building considerably differs from the office buildings yet harmoniously blends with the adjoining park.
  • February 18, 2013
  • Alla Pavlikova Julia Tarabarina
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Multicolored Barcode
Late last year, yet another medical institution in the southeast of Moscow got positively-looking multicolored facades that inspire confidence in the art of healing and the triumph of life. The project of reconstruction of Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Kulakov, situated on Akademika Oparina Street, was developed by the author team led by Alexander Asadov.
  • February 6, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
A Block White as Snow. On the Embankment.
The office complex "Aquamarine" is built on Ozerkovskaya Embankment in the place of the former industrial area; in fact, the architects of "SPEECH Choban&Kuznetsov" came up with a whole new understanding of the town-planning structure of this place.
Larta Glass, SPEECH
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
  • February 4, 2013
Object
Yards behind a Wall
In the center of Kronstadt, architectural office "Studio 44" is designing a new residential complex. Bordering on the architecture monuments protection zone, the new project develops the principles of historical town-planning of this fortress town.
  • February 1, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Castle Memories
On the Moika River embankment and directly opposite the "New Holland" area, "Eugene Gerasimov and Partners" Studio is designing an elite-class residential building. Once this was the place where the so-called "Lithuanian Castle" stood, and, in the architecture of the new complex, the authors enhanced the continuity of generations between the new and the old buildings.
  • January 29, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
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Diversity within the Bounds of Tradition
Developing a reconstruction project for the settlement of Rubin Estate, architect Aleksey Ivanov paid special attention to the quality and the merchantability of the future real property units.
Arkhstroydesign ASD
  • January 23, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Creation of Environment
Two new projects by "Vissarionov Studio" developed for the cities of Archangel and Sochi... Different in climatic conditions, typology, and square footage, they have one thing in common: they create new public spaces.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • January 10, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Fundamental Transformer
"Express-House" built by Gary Chang and Totan Kuzembaev in Pirogovo resort is a project that evolved from a quick-mounting pavilion up to a fundamental structure.
Totan
  • January 9, 2013
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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House of Multicolored Fairs
A colorful collage, as if glued together out of newspaper and magazine clippings, against the background of monotonous housing of the small town of Moskovsky situated in Moscow area... this is how the competitive project of shopping mall by "Sergey Kselev and Partners" looks like.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • December 27, 2012
  • Alla Pavlikova
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A Block on Three Shores
In the vicinity of Moscow area's Kransnogorsk, "Architecturium" studio is building a townhouse community named "Rizhsky Kvartal" (Riga Block). The classy low-rise houses are positioned around a large forest lake, and for Moscow area this is an example of the rare case when the name actually answers its content.
Arhitekturium
  • December 24, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Passe-Partout Puzzle
For the tourist resort "Cote d'Azure" that is located in Istra district of Moscow area, Totan Kuzembaev architectural studio has designed a guest cottage with facades that look as if they were multicolored wooden jigsaw puzzles.
Totan
  • December 21, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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The Return of the Project
Story of the project office and retail building on Kulneva Street (better known under its former name of “Mirax Plaza”) losing its designer supervision, being re-done, and then finally getting back into the hands of its authors to retrieve its architectural integrity.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • December 10, 2012
  • Alla Pavlikova Julia Tarabarina
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Arch Shift
Kazakhstan's Astana is going to get a new "Palace of Martial Arts" designed by "Studio 44" architectural office. And, even though the dimensions of the future sports center are fairly modest, it promises to become an important accent in the capital's panorama.
Company:
  • December 6, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Overlooking the Golf Club
The architectural map of the resort of "Pirogovo" has gotten yet another new house on it: by the project of Totan Kuzembaev architectural office, the resort got a "House Next to Hole 10".
Totan
  • November 28, 2012
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Palladian Style Improvisation
In this issue, we present the project of an “English House” – a palace built by Oleg Carlson for a commissioner from Moscow region. The facades of the house simulate the image of a British country palace and serve to conceal a complex and intriguingly sophisticated multi-layer space behind them.
Karlson & Co
  • November 22, 2012
  • Julia Tarabarina
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On the Wings of Sport
The Moscow area's settlement of "Zhukovka XXI" got a public sports center built by the project of "Asadov Architectural Bureau".
ASADOV architects
  • November 8, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Huts on Chicken’s Legs
The ranks of guest houses of “Pirogovo” resort have grown yet again – in addition to the already famous “boat-houses” with round awnings, Totan Kuzembaev has designed “birdhouses” this time around.
Totan
  • November 1, 2012
  • Alla Pavlikova
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From Simple to Complex
For the contest project of expo and business center on Sakhalin Island, Levon Airapetov and Valerie Preobrazhenskaya proposed two options, the first one being a trailblazing experiment with the process of shape-forming where from one shape of a cone, repeated manifold, the architects build up a complex and unusual kind of space.
TOTEMENT/PAPER
  • October 30, 2012
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Creating Traditions
On Moscow's Malaya Pirogovskaya Street, “ABV Group” Architectural Bureau has designed a residential complex with its layout and architecture based on the theme of Moscow estates of the days past.
ABV Group
  • October 25, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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Flexible Solution
The project of reconstructing the building of “Havana” Movie Theater into “Planeta KVN” HQ* is not only highly responsive of the city environment and the “eternally young” image of the popular TV show, but also remarkably flexible in terms of its technical solution. * KVN (Russian: КВН, an abbreviation of Клуб Весёлых и Находчивых, Klub Vesyólykh i Nakhódchivykh or Ka-Ve-En, "Club of the Funny and Inventive") is a Russian humor TV show and competition where teams (usually college students) compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. (Translator’s note)
ATRIUM
  • October 23, 2012
  • Julia Tarabarina
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Quality Mark
Among the numerous buildings that Totan Kuzembaev has deigned for the resort of Pirogovo, there is one whose name inevitably sends the guests into a state of slight confusion. It is the “Ъ” (“hard sign” in Russian – translator’s note) building whose name is pronounced as “err” and puts one in the mind of the times of the ancient Russ with its log-crib buildings.
Totan
  • October 16, 2012
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Towers on the Polygon
Taking part in the contest for the project of a multifunction residential compound on 1st Bukhvostova Street in Moscow, ABD Architects came forward with a composition of four houses and three slab blocks with cozy green courtyards between them.
ABD architects
  • October 15, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya