Copyright: © KCAP Architects & Planners, Orange Architects, A-Len

Ligovsky city

information:

status
project
date

2019 —2020
place
Russia,
function
Masterplanning / Concept of a Block’s Masterplan
number of storeys
4/16
Other Buildings
Жилой комплекс «Ligovsky City. Второй квартал»

Ruurd Gietema /

Russia

Jeroen Schipper /

Russia

KCAP Architects & Planners /

Russia

LenNIIProekt /

Russia

/

Russia

Copyright: © KCAP Architects & Planners, Orange Architects, A-Len

Archi.ru about this project:

02.10.2020

Alyona Kuznetsova. ...The Other Was Just Railroad Gin*

In their project of the third stage of “Ligovsky City” housing complex, located in the industrial “gray” belt of Saint Petersburg, the KCAP & Orange Architects & A-Len consortium set before themselves a task of keeping up the genius loci by preserving the contours of the railroad and likening the volumes of residential buildings to railroad containers, stacked up at the goods unloading station.

*In the headline of the original Russian version of this article, a quote from the song “Railroad Water” by the famous Russian rock singer Boris Grebenshchikov is used, obviously inspired by the Bob Dylan line, which is used in the Engl... more