Nikita Yavein

26.12.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. Blitz-Building or How to Build a Palace in Six Months

The city of Astana (Kazakhstan) saw the completion of the construction of the School Students Activity Center build by the project of “Studio 44”. On the 8th of December, on the eve of Kazakhstan’s Independence Day, the inauguration ceremony took place.

12.12.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. Flying Carpet in the Desert

Architectural workshop “Studio 44” has come up with a concept for Ashkhabad's new international airport that is supposed to be build 35 kilometers away from the capital of Turkmenistan.

08.11.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. Innovation Mechanism

The list of the participants of the competitive bid for the best renovation project of Moscow Polytechnic Museum included, among others, the architectural workshop named “Studio 44”. And, in spite of the fact that the project of Nikita Yavein’s team did not win the contest, the experts gave it an honorable mention for the detailed approach and attempts to deal with the most challenging issues of the building located at Lubyanskaya Square.

07.09.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. Palace Coup d’Etat

Russia’s only finalist in the competitive bid for the reconstruction project of Saint Petersburg’s “New Holland” district (yes, Saint Petersburg has a New Holland of its own – translator’s note) was “Studio 44”. Archi.ru is publishing Nikita Yavein and his team’s comments on their plan of reviving this Saint Petersburg’s arguably most enigmatic island.

10.05.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. Alignment of Planets… and Sport Stars

“Studio 44” Architectural Workshop developed the project for building an 18-thousand-square-meters-strong track-and-field sports center at Yuri Gagarin Avenue in Saint Petersburg. However, as often is the case, the material implementation was vastly different from the original idea.

12.04.2011

Ilya Pechenkin. The Emperor’s Palace… a Place for Dialogue

Nikita Yavein and his Architectural Workshop “Studio 44” have come up with the renovation project for the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. Just like the reconstruction of the East wing of the General Staff Building, the architects’ new work presents an excellent example of correct mix of up-to-date creative and technical solutions with the historic architecture.

09.03.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. A theatre begins with a bell

The architectural workshop “Studio 44” designed a reconstruction project for the audience zone of the famous St. Petersburg “Priut Komedianta” theater.

07.02.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. Crystal Rainbow

Architectural workshop "Studio 44" has won an international contest on new railway station design in Astana.

13.01.2011

Anna Martovitskaya. A rocket on chetverik

Architectural bureau "Studio 44" is designing a mixed-use complex with a theater, an art center, offices and residence in the West End of London. As the client desired it has absorbed recognizable motifs of the Old Russian architecture.

09.12.2010

Nikolai Malinin. The general headquarters becomes more general

Tomorrow in St. Petersburg there will be launched the first stage of reconstruction of the eastern wing of the General headquarters. The project is titled “novaya Boshaya Anfilada” , it will be housing collections and exhibitions of the State Hermitage. The Petersburg architects Oleg and Nikita Yavein ("Studio 44") are the authors, “Intarsia” company is the contractor, the Ministry of Culture is the client and the investor is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This is not the opening yet, the paintings will be here in summer. This is more of an architectural event now. Really a significant event. Nikolai Malinin specially for Arhi.ru.