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10.07.2025

Alyona Kuznetsova. The Flower of the Lake

The prototype for the building of the Kamal Theater in Kazan is an ice flower: a rare and fragile natural phenomenon of Lake Kaban “froze” in the large, soaring outlines of the glass screens enclosing the main volume, shaping its silhouette and shielding the stained-glass windows from the sun. The project, led by the Wowhaus consortium and including global architecture “star” Kengo Kuma, won the 2021/2022 competition and was realized close to the original concept in a short – very short – period of time. The theater opened in early 2025. It was Kengo Kuma who proposed the image of an ice flower and the contraposition of cold on the outside and warmth on the inside. Between 2022 and 2024, Wowhaus did everything possible to bring this vision to life, practically living on-site. Now we are taking a closer look at this landmark building and its captivating story.
13.06.2024

. Frozen Magma

A competition for the creation of a public and cultural center was held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Three architectural companies made it to the final, and we consider it important to share about the work of each. Let’s start with the winner – the consortium led by Wowhaus.
09.06.2023

Julia Tarabarina. The Black Mountain

The project of reconstructing the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet theater developed by Wowhaus, which won the competition, proposed a total demolition and new construction, as well as considerable expansion (up to 8 floors) – and transformable multifunctional spaces. The new project, however, does retain the recognizable elements and the image of the old theater. As for the main spectator hall, it is turned – figuratively speaking, of course – into a semblance of a black volcano.
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.
06.03.2020

Elena Petukhova. ​The Social Biology of Landscape

The list of new typologies of public spaces and public projects has been expanded yet again — thanks to Wowhaus. This time around, this company came up with a groundbreaking by Russian standards approach to creating a place where people and animals can communicate.
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Partner Architects of Archi.ru:

  • Sergey Kouznetsov
  • Vera Butko
  • Vassily Krapivin
  • Sergei Tchoban
  • Dmitry Likin
  • Natalia Shilova
  • Pavel Andreev
  • Vsevolod Medvedev
  • Daniel  Lorenz
  • Polina Voevodina
  • Zurab Bassaria
  • Mikhail Kanunnikov
  • Vladimir Plotkin
  • Alexander Skokan
  • Oleg Medinsky
  • Igor  Shvartsman
  • Alexandra Kuzmina
  • Konstantin Khodnev
  • Andrey Gnezdilov
  • Rais Baishev
  • Sergey Pereslegin
  • Alexandr Samarin
  • Julia  Tryaskina
  • Andrey Asadov
  • Alexander Asadov
  • Andrey Romanov
  • Stanislav Belykh
  • Rostislav Zaiser
  • Sergey  Trukhanov
  • Natalia Sidorova
  • Sergey Skuratov
  • Oleg Shapiro
  • Yuliy Borisov
  • Alexsey Ginzburg
  • Andy Snow
  • Anton Nadtochiy
  • Roman Leonidov
  • Ilia Mashkov
  • Tatiana Zulkharneeva
  • Georgy Trofimov
  • Nikita Yavein
  •  Valery  Lukomsky
  • Nikolay Pereslegin
  • Ekaterina Kuznetsova

Buildings and Projects: New Additions

  • Naberezhnaya Evropy, St. Petersburg
  • Pavilion for Chacha Ceremonies
  • “Replacement” Project
  • Residential complex
  • “Olympic Hall”Business Center
  • Residential complex
  • Residential complex ′Andersen′
  • Sports and residential complex “Olympic village Novogorsk”
  • The checkpoint and operation service building of “Novogorsk Olympic Village”