Yuliy Borisov

14.09.2020

Julia Tarabarina. Architecture as an Educational Tool

The concept of a charity school “Tochka Budushchego” (“Point of the Future”) in Irkutsk is based on cutting-edge educational programs, and is designed, among other things, for adapting orphaned children for independent life. An important role is played by the architecture of the building: its structure and different types of interconnected spaces.

02.09.2020

Natalia Koriakovskaia. Health Constructor

In this issue, we are publishing the concept of a standard clinic designed by UNK Project, which took second place in the competition organized by the Union of Architects of Russia in collaboration with the Healthcare Ministry.

10.07.2020

Natalia Koriakovskaia. UNK Project: “Our school is compared to the Apple Headquarters”

In this issue, we are publishing the competition project of the MGIMO School in Garden Quarters, designed by the consortium UNK Project (Moscow) + Storaket (Erevan) + Umnaya Shkola (Moscow) with the architects’ comments.

20.03.2020

Julia Tarabarina, Nina Frolova. We work remotely: Moscow architects about working from home during the pandemic

In this article, we are speaking to the leaders of a few Moscow architectural companies about their plans for remote work caused by the #COVID19 pandemic.

23.01.2020

. Architecture of Evanescence

On the Vernadskogo Avenue, next to the metro station, appeared a high-rise landmark that transformed the entire area: designed by UNK Project, the “Academic” business center uncovered, in the form of its architecture, the meanings of the local place names.

13.09.2019

Julia Tarabarina. A Futuristic Network

A highway bridge as a place for recreation and contemplation; a network of pedestrian arteries and capillaries full of greenery, also meant for locomotion and communication, and a network of “smart devices” meant to help people – all of this is combined in the project called “Linked City”.

30.07.2019

Natalia Koriakovskaia. The Periscope Principle

Yuliy Borisov found a nontrivial image that turned a rank-and-file “crate” project of the Palace of Martial Arts in Luzhniki into an iconic building, glittering and modern, yet endowed with contextual allusions and capable of active interaction with people and the surrounding territory.

19.03.2019

. New Generation School

How does a school that has no room for boredom look like? This question was answered by UNK project in their project (no pun intended) of the educational complex to be built in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, which got a name of “Neskuchnaya Shkola” (“Boredom-free School”).

05.03.2018

Remembering Bauhaus

Can one express in architecture the connection between Bauhaus School and its professor Vasily Kandinsky? Working on a housing project with maximum values of density, depth, and height, UNK Project made such an attempt, arranging in a freehand manner several 12-story slabs in three dimensions of a waterfront area.

19.12.2017

Elena Petukhova. Urban Gardens

In their project of renovating city blocks in the district of Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, the UNK project architects relied upon the principle of similarity, scaling down the compositional and functional patterns that are characteristic for the entire Moscow.