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Magnetic Forces
21.02.2025

Julia Tarabarina. Magnetic Forces

“Krylatskaya 33” is the first large-scale residential complex to appear amidst the 1980s “micro-districts” that harmoniously coexist with the forests, the river, the slopes, and the sports infrastructure. Despite its imposing scale, the architects of Ostozhenka managed to turn the complex into something that can be best described as a “graceful dominant”. First, they designed the complex with consideration for the style and height of the surrounding micro-districts. Second, by introducing a pause in its tallest section, they created compositional tension – right along the urban planning axis of the area.
The White Wing
26.08.2024

Julia Tarabarina. The White Wing

Well, it’s not exactly white. It’s more of a beige, white-stone structure that plays with the color of limestone – smoother surfaces are lighter, while rougher ones are darker. This wing unites various elements: it absorbs and interprets the surrounding themes. It responds to everything, yet maintains a cohesive expression – a challenging task! – while also incorporating recognizable features of its own, such as the dynamic cuts at the bottom, top, and middle.
The “Staircase” Building
21.08.2024

Julia Tarabarina. The “Staircase” Building

In designing the “Details” residential complex in New Moscow, Rais Baishev spiced up the now-popular Moscow theme of a “courtyard” building with an idea drawn from the surrealist drawings by Maurits Escher. He envisioned the stepped silhouettes and descending slopes as a metaphysical mega-staircase, creating a key void within the courtyard that gave the project an internal “spine”. This concept is felt both in the building’s silhouette and on its façades.
The Fulcrum
20.05.2024

Julia Tarabarina. The Fulcrum

Ostozhenka Architects have designed two astonishing towers practically on the edge of a slope above the Oka River in Nizhny Novgorod. These towers stand on 10-meter-tall weathered steel “legs”, with each floor offering panoramic views of the river and the city; all public spaces, including corridors, receive plenty of natural light. Here, we see a multitude of solutions that are unconventional for the residential routine of our day and age. Meanwhile, although these towers hark back to the typological explorations of the seventies, they are completely reinvented in a contemporary key. We admire Veren Group as the client – this is exactly how a “unique product” should be made – and we tell you exactly how our towers are arranged.
In the Rhombus Grid
11.04.2024

Julia Tarabarina. In the Rhombus Grid

Construction has begun on the building of the OMK (United Metallurgical Company) Corporate University in Nizhny Novgorod’s town of Vyksa, designed by Ostozhenka Architects. The most interesting aspect of the project is how the architects immersed it in the context: “extracting” a diagonal motif from the planning grid of Vyksa, they aligned the building, the square, and the park to match it. A truly masterful work with urban planning context on several different levels of perception has long since become the signature technique of Ostozhenka.
The Color of the City, or Reflections on the Slope of an Urban Settlement
26.12.2023

Julia Tarabarina. The Color of the City, or Reflections on the Slope of an Urban Settlement

In 2022, Ostozhenka Architects won a competition, and in 2023, they developed and received all the necessary approvals for a master plan for the development of Chernigovskaya Street for the developer GloraX. The project takes into account a 10-year history of previous developments; it was done in collaboration with architects from Nizhny Novgorod, and it continues to evolve now. We carefully examined it, talked to everyone, and learned a lot of interesting things.
Ensemble of Individualities
11.09.2023

Konstantin Barthomeev. Ensemble of Individualities

Construction of the first phase of the INDY Towers multifunctional complex on Kuusinen Street, designed by Ostozhenka, has started. The project opens new angles of similarity between the column and the skyscraper, and we examine the nuances and parallels.
Black and Red
30.08.2023

Julia Tarabarina. Black and Red

Kazakov Grand Loft received its name for a reason: responding to the client’s brief and proceeding from the historical industrial architecture of its immediate surroundings, Valery Kanyashin and Ostozhenka architects proposed a new version of a modern house designed in the fashionable “loft” style. What makes this building different is the fact that the bricks here are dark gray, and the facades of the romantic “fortress” towers blossom with magnificent glazing of the windows in the upper part. The main highlight of the complex, however, is the multiple open air terraces situated on different levels.
The Comb of Strelna
28.10.2022

Julia Tarabarina. The Comb of Strelna

In this issue, we are taking a close look at the project that won the “Crystal Daedalus” award – the “Veren Village” housing complex in Strelna, designed by Ostozhenka. Its low-rise format became a trigger for typological and morphological experiments – seemingly, we are seeing recognizable trends, yet at the same time there are a multitude of subtleties that are a pleasure to go into. Having studied this project in detail, we think that the award is well-deserved.
We work remotely: Moscow architects about working from home during the pandemic
20.03.2020

Nina Frolova, Julia Tarabarina. 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.
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Partner Architects of Archi.ru:

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

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”