Object
Ground Folds
Vladimir Plotkin designed a unique sculpture-building for one of the passages connecting Sretenka and Trubnaya streets. The apartment complex consists of two sections with different heights, wrapped in folded skin of glass and travertine.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • July 14, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Deck for the "Titanic"
After the high-rise "Titanic" “Alexey Bavykin and Partners” studio designed a low-rise apartment complex of gallery type on Alpiskaya street in Sochi.
Bavykin architects
  • July 13, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
Сleanness of the style
In Moscow, on Stanislavsky street there has been completed construction of a residential building designed by John MacAslan + Partners studio (London) and ADM bureau (Moscow). For Russian architectural practice this is not just a rare example of successful cooperation of Western and Russian architects, but their comprehensive and effective coauthorship.
ADM
  • July 12, 2010
  • Anna Gerasimenko
Object
Quiet сharm of "chalet"
This spring Roman Leonidov, the architect, has completed construction of a new countryside cottage, which became the embodiment of his vision of a comfortable and stylish private home.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • July 9, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Sergey Skuratov: "I will defend my building ..."
The last three weeks “House on Mosfilmovskaya” has been in the center of attention of the city media. Only now architectural value of the project and even plentiful professional awards are not the subject of numerous articles. Moscow authorities unexpectedly recognized in the famous skyscraper an uncontrolled settlement and promised to build it down in about a quarter. We asked the architect Sergei Skuratov, who is the authors of the “House on Mosfilmovskaya” to comment on the situation.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • July 7, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Dungeon of Bacchus
“Sergei Kiselev & Partners” designed three absolutely different projects of wineries in Krasnodar sky region. With the latest technologies, this complex will become not only a new centre of wine production and a museum of winemaking traditions of Southern Russia.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • June 30, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Resort construction
In one of the most scenic and ecologically safe suburbs of St. Petersburg, in Zelenogorsk resort town “Evgeny Gerasimov and Partners” studio completed construction of a new apartment-hotel. On the green hillside among giant boulder stones the architects raised a dynamic composition of geometric volumes.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners
  • June 28, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
Object
A double knot
July 2010 there will be started construction of a new railway station in Sochi, one of the main passenger terminals of the forthcoming Olympic Games 2014, which will provide communication between Adler, Krasnaya Polyana, the international airport and Abkhazia. The architectural image of the facility was designed by “Studio 44”, they developed it considering landscape peculiarities and traditions of the seaside architecture.
Company:
  • June 21, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
On the bed of music
In Tai Bei less than a year ago there was held an international architectural contest on Taipei Pop Music Center design project. TPO "Reserv" interpreted the object as a giant bed, a "bed" which they turned into an outdoor stage.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • June 17, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Patchwork Quilt
It's well known the economy crisis has totally changed priorities of developers and architects. Before they would prefer large-scale projects of complex housing, today simple cost efficient objects which create comfortable environment come to the fore. Andrey Asadov’s architectural studio suggests building their town named “Loskutki” out of such objects, each can be modified considering interests of future residents.
ASADOV architects
  • June 15, 2010
  • Anna Gerasimenko
Object
"Garden neighborhoods": anti-crisis upgrade
Today, "Garden neighborhoods" is one of the most famous Moscow projects. It’s notable due to it its location in Hamovniki, on site of "Kauchuk" factory, and it’s totally unique concept "design code", developed by Sergey Skuratov. Today we discuss the process of project realization and changes made because of the economic crisis with the author of its concept.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • May 21, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Towers over the cube
The World Universal Exhibition EXPO-2010 started its work on May 1 in Shanghai. A very important date for Russia? The country participated in the prestigious exhibition and had its own pavilion. Twelve white towers with red-gold ornament symbolizing both the rich historical and cultural heritage of the country and concern on the future, openness to new. The pavilion project was designed by Bureau TOTEMENT / PAPER.
TOTEMENT/PAPER
  • May 17, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
For more than 10 years the new city is being built under the motto “Astana is city of future”. Such worldwide famous architects as Kisho Kurokawa, Norman Foster, Manfredi Nicoletti, Bureau BIG signed in its image. Institute of Astana master plan every year sets new international contest. This year the architectural studio of A.Asadov was invited to participated in such on the project of a Palace of Schoolchildren Art. The architects named “Palitra” their complex consisting of colored buildings.
ASADOV architects, , GrandProektCity
  • April 28, 2010
  • Anna Gerasimenko
Object
Within the circle of happiness
Architecture of "Zarechie" residential complex employs and variously plays with geometry of the circle – so to say, it is not sketched with a ruler, but a pair of compasses. Here you can see a try to comprehend the idea of "round house" uncovered again by Melnikov, or it is another interpretation of Malevich's suprematism, but geometry is not core in project, it emotional spirit, which comes from the great architectural desire of the last century – designing of a beautiful life .
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • April 19, 2010
  • Julia Tarabarina
Object
Autum yellow leaf
At the very edge of Strogino residential area the architect Alexey Bavykin designed a high-rise apartment building named "Golden Autumn". This is a light tower covered with a giant golden "leaf", which like an arrow points toward the city center.
Bavykin architects
  • April 14, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Pearl of Drava
In Slovenian city of Maribor there is ended an international open competition on three objects at a time - the embankment of the Drava river, pedestrian bridge and an art gallery new building. More than 400 architects participated in the contest, each could present one or more projects. Vladimir Bindeman’s studio "Arhitekturium" considered most interesting the chance to work on appearance of an art gallery and the cultural and exhibition center was interpreted as a giant elliptical, carefully inserted in the newly created district.
Arhitekturium
  • April 9, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Portals in the park
Sergei Skuratov, was the only Russian architect, invited to participate in recently held international contest on design of Perm Opera and Ballet Theater new building. His theatre project was the largest in scale and most elaborated in terms of functionality, architectural and planning stage. Dressed in matte, frosty glass and bronze copper, complex designed by Skuratov really looks like a northern theater.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • April 2, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Water Stadium
In 2013 in Kazan there will be held the 27th Summer Universiade – the World Student Sports Games. It requires 40 sports facilities, many of which will be built specifically for the Universiade. One of the most important is the Palace of water sports designed by SPEECH architectural studio, they won the contest as well as Arup and PSO "Kazan." This facility combines the clean energy of classical modernism forms with delicate textures and technical capabilities of modern architecture.
SPEECH
  • March 29, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
With surgical precision
The architectural studio "Studio 44" designed a new treatment and rehabilitation complex for one of the most well-known St. Petersburg medical institutions - Federal Heart, Blood and Endocrinology Centre in the name of V.A. Almazov. There will be conducted cardiac surgery and hemo transplantation. An uncommon architectural solution was found for a uniquely equipped center.
Company:
  • March 24, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Glass Dune
Along the left bank of the Volga river, opposite to Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, not yet developed, soon there will grow a modern tourist and business center. The project of this mixed-use facility was designed by PTAM Vissarionov. The architects interpreted Kremlin vis-а-vis as a giant dune of glass.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • March 22, 2010
  • Natalia Koriakovskaia
Object
New generation DNA
After the triumph of the boarding school in Kozhukhovo which brought a number of prestigious professional awards to the architectural studio "Atrium" and reputation of social-oriented developer to the "DON-Stroi" company, their co-operation simply had to be continued. Anton Nadtochy and Vera Butko designed children educational campus, consisting of a school for 1100 students and two pre-school facilities, for the 12th district of Shchukino. It’s been dominated by DON-stroi "Alye Parusa" for a few yeas now.
ATRIUM
  • March 2, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Sectional Elevation
Vladimir Bindeman’s studio "Arhitekturium" designed "Kiparis" hotel for Hostinsky district in Sochi. Because of the considerable relief drop the 7storey building looks like a 3storey one, but due to the distinguished boomerang shape it can be a new sign of the area.
Arhitekturium
  • February 25, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
House with gryphons
“Evgeny Gerasimov and Partners” designed a building, resembling both a Venetian palace by the water and a romantic castle, for Krestovsky island, which for a few years now has been seized with an elite housing development boom.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners
  • February 19, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
Object
Further Mathematics
Marfino residential district located in the north-east of Moscow, made into the recent history as a huge area of typical housing development. However, it was not such before: the concept was totally changed a few times, from elite to “economy-class” real estate. "Sergey Kiselev & Partners” was in charge of the next to last reincarnation of Marfino.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • February 17, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Mission "Luxe"
Reconstruction of "Tsentralnaya" hotel is one of Moscow projects fated to raise heated debates. Defenders of historical objects call it just “destruction of the monument”, but the officials name it “restoration and development”. Pavel Andreev, the architect and author of the project takes a philosophical approach to such opposition of terminology, saying that monuments will always be reconstructed and the story of "Central" just proves it.
Paul Andreev
  • February 12, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Cosmos under the ground
Last autumn, in Kaluga, there was held an open contest on the second stage project of The State Museum of Cosmonautics History in the name of K.E. Tsiolkovsky. Vissarionov’s PTAM arranged the new constructions of the museum mostly under the underground, in the natural slope.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • February 11, 2010
  • Natalia Koriakovskaia
Object
Mountain speaking to the mountain
Architectural studio “Sergei Kiselev & Partners” took part in the open international contest on the best business center project with the hotel Intercontinental in Yerevan. In their design the architects interpreted it as a new Armenian capital height dominant, which begins a dialogue with the famous Ararat mountain.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • February 4, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
The fairest scale
The three years of work on the Russian architectural market SPeeCH marked by publication of a monograph with all their projects. Under the simple black cover with the studio logo there are gathered more than 30 concepts, projects and constructions, illustrating the scale, quality standards and creative principles of Sergey Tchoban, Sergei Kuznetsov and Pavel Shaburov company.
SPEECH
  • February 3, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Semispherical hinge
Last year the architectural workshop "Studio 44" completed construction of a new office complex in the very heart of St. Petersburg. It is hard to find a spare area in the density of streets neighboring to the Alexander Nevski Square, for this reason the business center was attached to one of the existing buildings. The new architectural hybrid became a new sight of Telezhnaya streets.
Company:
  • January 28, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Splash of orange
Vladimir Bindeman’s architectural studio designed a residential complex for 530 apartments in Leninsky district of Chelyabinsk city. Home of USSR heavy industry will have a building with distinguished silhouette, uncommon tectonics and bright coloring.
Arhitekturium
  • January 26, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Architectural puzzle “Konstantinovo”
Throughout the last year A. Asadov’s architectural studio and “Grand Project City" were developing the project of “Konstantinovo” residential district for Domodedovo, Moscow region. The project originated a new tradition – contests within the studio. The architects selected the best project and added most interesting ideas of other participants.
ASADOV architects
  • January 25, 2010
  • Anna Gerasimenko
Object
Beside “Taganka”
SPeeCH architectural studio designed an educational and sports complex along Zemlyanoi Val, nearly opposite to Taganka Theatre.The new 3storey volume responds the one of the most famous objects of Moscow architecture of 1970’s with the same active relief and terracotta finishing of the façade.
SPEECH
  • January 22, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Here will grow a garden-city
"Olympiisky" residential area in the suburbs of Krasnodar city is the first project of a complex housing development in the portfolio of "Atrium", the architectural studio. Despite that Anton Nadtochy and Vera Butko had never designed for a 300 ha territory, they did their job brilliantly, they developed a truly "green" village with high-level infrastructure.
ATRIUM
  • January 21, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Mirror image
Last year, in March, results of the international contest on the best architectural and town-planning solution of “European Embankment” in St. Petersburg were resumed. One of the most interesting was the project by "Studio 44" which created the image of a new city-block combining the features of three different epochs.
Company:
  • January 15, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Palace scenario
The project is not new, it is more than two years old, but is unknown. There would be a new city-block in Moscow, similar to the building along Levshinsky lane so popular among tourists.
Alexandrov and partners, U-Studio
  • January 12, 2010
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
Object
Made in ABD
This article is not about the results of an architectural studio work, not about a project or construction, but tells about creative and work processes. The architects from ABD company, whose constructions have become a standard of quality commercial architecture, agreed to share secrets of bureau work management.
ABD architects
  • December 29, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Like a volcano
This year, in autumn there was held an international architectural contest on the best project of Taipei Pop Music Center. The finalists (Studio Gang Architects was one of them) were announced in November, but their projects haven’t been published yet. Archi.ru presents the “Dragon Nest” of Asadov’s srudio – one of the Russian projects, participated in the contest.
ASADOV architects
  • December 26, 2009
  • Anna Gerasimenko
Object
In the course of highway style
Minsk is one of the most dynamically building up cities among all the CIS countries capitals. Commercial real estate market and hotel business are being actively developed in Belarusian capital, so “Kempinski” idea to design for Minsk no only a hotel, but a mixed-use complex is very logical. Architectural bureau SPeeCH was commissioned to design the project MFK along Nezavisimosti avenue.
SPEECH
  • December 24, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Procrustes's bed of regulations
Today in Moscow, there is still in progress work on a number of large-scale development projects, soon there will be new city districts. One of the projects is the residential city-block in the bottom-land of Ramenka river by Pavel Andreev. It was already highlighted by the agency of architectural new.
Paul Andreev
  • December 22, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
A decent charm of proportions
Construction of Kudrovo, a new housing estate, with population of 60 000 is one of the most ambitious Saint-Petersburg projects of complex territory development, even the economical crisis did not cease it. “Evgeny Gerasimov and partners” in association with Nps Tchoban Voss developed a master-plan and architectural concept of the North Capital new satellite town.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners, Tchoban Voss Architekten
  • December 8, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Zigzag of health
Vera Butko and Anton Nadtochi gracefully fit the project of a health clinic combined with spa-resort into Moscow area hills saving its straight line architecture integrity. A harmonious scenery.
ATRIUM
  • December 7, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Tartan pattern
Upon the project of “Sergei Kiselev and partners” there will be constructed a business centre consisting of nine variable-height buildings at the cross of Serpuhovsky Val and Shabolovka street. Designed entirely for offices and placed tightly the buildings however will not transfer the area into another “City”, thought they are very similar to is scale, coloring and character.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • December 3, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Miraculous transformation of a house
Numerous brick palaces and castles built in provinces around Moscow in 1990ies are among symbols of the period. However the fashion on massive structures “styled after” went by fast and nowadays such houses are being reconstructed. ADM bureau has recently completed such project, where they managed to turn a pseudo classical private residence into a work of modern architecture.
ADM
  • December 1, 2009
  • Anna Gerasimenko
Object
Crystal Revolution
Anyone who ever bought a souvenir knows that the "Russian national crafts" and "modern design" are not very friendly to each other. Is it possible to bring a new life into something that is a real ornament of the national culture and history? Arseni Leonovich, an architect from Panacom bureau reply in the affirmative. This year, in May as a guest designer at ZAO "Russian art crafts” he started the process of introduction the industry with modern design in the town of Gus-Crystal, the oldest center of the glass industry.
PANACOM
  • November 26, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
Brigantine spreads sails
In May “Studio-44” got a new office, a 3 storey building in Manezhny pereulok, with a built-up 2 level mansard. It is significant for its interior with bare interior rafter system of glued wood. Critics have already compared it to an inverted Viking boat. The project received the Bronze diploma at “Zodchestvo-2009” festival.
Company:
  • November 25, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
At the cross of the two boulevard
In 2004 the project of “Novoarchangelskoe” locality developed by “Architecturium” won the contest run by “Sovremenny Dom” magazine. Five years ago the fact of running such contest was an absolute breakthrough for domestic market of countryside developments: developers realized that an architect plays a significant role in success of commercial product “countryside development” and exactly at the stage of developing a master-plan. Realization of the project-winner is a fine example.
Arhitekturium
  • November 11, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Object
A snow whirl for Sochi
Arrangements for the Olympic Games of 2014 are at full drive. In Imeretinskaya Valley a number of objects are being built at the moment, and a few other ones are in project. For many large countries the Olympic Games is a chance to demonstrate their national schools of architecture, but Russia is different. Russian architects are left to take personal initiative and make alternative projects for Sochi-2014. Such fighters for national atmosphere is A. Asadov’s studio and “Project-KS”, they have developed a conception of design of sport facilities named “sNezhnaya Russia”. Without breaking into the objects project they have created a smart “packing case” which is able to change the entire image.
ASADOV architects
  • November 5, 2009
  • Anna Gerasimenko
Object
The linear path of development
Contest on the reconstruction project of the famous Apraksin Dvor in St. Petersburg became one of the most famous in architectural life of 2007. Journalists readily covered opposition of the two major players of the game: Glavstroy and Russian Land development corporations. Must admit the concepts paled beside such factors and were rarely highlighted in media. While there were interesting project among them, including the one by "Studio 44". Their concept preserves the historical structure of Apraksin Dvor and enriches it with new features.
Company:
  • October 29, 2009
  • Anna Martovitskaya