Alexander Skokan

11.07.2018

Elena Petukhova. A Typical Anomaly

An unusual-looking façade of glass lamellae brought the Ostozhenka project of a business center located just inside the Garden Ring a well-deserved victory at ArchGlass 2018.

10.10.2017

Elena Petukhova. Alexander Skokan: “A good house looks so natural that people don’t notice it”

With this article, we are continuing the series of video interviews taken within the framework of “Quality Benchmark” project. The leader of Ostozhenka Bureau speaks about the difference between architecture and design, about “Russian labor, inherently careless”, and about the influence of modern technologies.

25.01.2016

Lilya Aronova. Water-bound

This issue features the project of "River-Park" residential area on the bank of the Nagatinsky Creek - developed by "Ostozhenka" architectural bureau.

06.11.2015

Alla Pavlikova. Pixelation of Mytnaya

Not far from Shukhov Tower, amid the already built new housing estates, the Sky House Towers – covered partly with transparent and partly with vivid autumn-colored pixel skin – has reached its final stage of construction.

04.02.2015

Alla Pavlikova. 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.

30.12.2014

Anna Starostina, Julia Tarabarina. 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.

11.11.2014

Alla Pavlikova. A Hunter’s Camouflage for a Housing Complex

There are no simple architectural tasks but there are simple solutions. The edge of brilliance.

14.08.2013

Alla Pavlikova, Julia Tarabarina. Watercolor Alloy

The project of a residential complex that is now being built in the Moscow suburb of Balashikha incorporates the most characteristic techniques of the classic modernism, the subtleties of the contextual approach, several variations of housing typology, and a fresh and picturesque emotionality.

14.03.2013

Julia Tarabarina. 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".

02.04.2012

Anna Martovitskaya. Alexander Skokan: “Any architectural structure grows from its environment”

It will be safe to say that “Ostozhenka” Studio is today one of Russia’s most respected architectural offices that enjoys authority beyond exception in the professional community. Over the 20 years of its existence, it has grown from the general designer of Ostozhenka district to one of the main development contractors of Moscow agglomeration. How it all began, and what the team of this architectural studio is working on today, shares the “Ostozhenka”’s chief architect Alexander Skokan.