Ligovsky city
information:
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status
project -
date
2019 —2020 -
place
Russia, -
function
Masterplanning / Concept of a Block’s Masterplan -
number of storeys
4/16 -
Other Buildings
Æèëîé êîìïëåêñ «Ligovsky City. Âòîðîé êâàðòàë»
Ruurd Gietema /
RussiaPatrick Meijers /
RussiaSergey Oreshkin /
RussiaOrange Architects /
RussiaA-Len /
RussiaLenNIIProekt /
Russia/
RussiaArchi.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