UNK

25.08.2022

Julia Tarabarina. A Circular Arrangement

The project by UNK interiors, which won in the competition for the “Zagorye” metro station, is resonant to the ideas of the surrounding industrial and housing construction thanks to its modular laconic shapes. At the same time, the station is “all metal”, which is a nod towards the name of the nearby Lipetskaya Street because Lipetsk is a metallurgical center. One could expect that the authors would fall for the brutal images of metallurgy and blast furnaces but the project turned out to be light and laconic – we are examining why.

11.07.2022

Tatiana Shovskaya. Triangle Function

The eccentric shape of this thin slab that expands upwards is not a formal gesture but the UNK architects’ response to the site’s requirements and the technical and economic performance specifications. The solutions are modernist, cost-effective, and functional. The building is terraced, the side ends are accentuated with a “slab” shift, and the wide facades are composed of triangular bay windows.

23.05.2022

Julia Tarabarina. Julia Tryaskina: “Modern public interiors are about the super-goal, not about unnecessary embellishments”

The new IPI Award for design of public interiors considers the projects from the point of view of today’s trends of the modern world, and even broader – from the point of view of a super-goal set by the client and achieved by the architect. In this article, we are speaking to the initiator of the award: about the specifics of rating the projects, about the priorities, fears, and hopes.

02.02.2022

Julia Tarabarina. Yuliy Borisov: “We created a system that is flexible, yet manageable and accumulating competences”

UNK has announced a new stage of its reorganization. Now it is an ecosystem consisting of 9 companies interacting with one another “seamlessly and horizontally”. We asked Yuliy Borisov to elaborate on the essence of the reform.

08.11.2021

Julia Tarabarina. Super Pergola

The new business center built in Moscow’s district of Presnya in the 1st Zemelny Lane is all about technology and sustainability. Its streamlined shapes and white facade grid are combined with a new version of vertical greenery: the green of wild grapes, placed at a distance from the facade, instead of arguing with the “pergola” grid, sets it off by contrast.

02.06.2021

. Transformation with Multiplication

The Palace of Water Sports in Luzhniki is one of the high-profile and nontrivial reconstructions of recent years, and a project that won one of the first competitions, initiated by Sergey Kuznetsov as the main architect of Moscow. The complex opened 2 years ago; this article about it comes out at the start of the bathing season.

23.03.2021

Natalia Koriakovskaia, Arina Strigova. The Uplifting Effect

The project of Ostankino Business Park was developed for the land site lying between two metro stations (one operating and the other in construction), and because of that its public space is designed to equally cater for the city people and the office workers. The complex stands every chance of becoming the catalyst for development of the Butyrsky area.

20.10.2020

Natalia Koriakovskaia. Renovation: the Far East Style

The competition project of renovating two central city blocks of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, developed by UNK project, won the nomination “Architectural and planning solutions of city construction”.

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.