Ostozhenka Bureau

04.02.2015

Alla Pavlikova. Sunstroke: Avant-garde of the XXI Century

A daring plastic play with the volume of a giant multi-apartment complex just outside of Moscow: a sophisticated silhouette, impressive views and a beautiful-looking reminder of the fact that avant-garde is our all.

30.12.2014

Anna Starostina, Julia Tarabarina. The Genius of an Important Place

The architects of “Ostozhenka” Bureau examined the Volkhonka areas and proposed not only a number of ideas making the history of this place more visible but also some new approaches to working with historical centers of Russian cities.

Alexander Skokan: "A river must only be considered together with its numerous inflows. The Moskva River has one hundred forty-one of them".

18.12.2014

Julia Tarabarina. Alexander Skokan: "A river must only be considered together with its numerous inflows. The Moskva River has one hundred forty-one of them".

The head of "Ostozhenka" consortium speaks about the river running through the city, about broadening the subject of the contest, about the cableways, and about Decree 666 of the Moscow government.

10.12.2014

Tatiana Pashintseva. Pixels of Memory

The Museum of Architecture opened an exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the architectural bureau “Ostozhenka”. A big anniversary – after all, a quarter of a century – but the exhibition is small.

11.11.2014

Alla Pavlikova. A Hunter’s Camouflage for a Housing Complex

There are no simple architectural tasks but there are simple solutions. The edge of brilliance.

14.08.2013

Alla Pavlikova, Julia Tarabarina. Watercolor Alloy

The project of a residential complex that is now being built in the Moscow suburb of Balashikha incorporates the most characteristic techniques of the classic modernism, the subtleties of the contextual approach, several variations of housing typology, and a fresh and picturesque emotionality.

14.03.2013

Julia Tarabarina. A Different Ostozhenka

Having responded to all the themes that were set by its architectural context, the new bank building in the Butikovsky Side-street still does not look lost amidst its neighbors. Quite the contrary: one can regard this new building as the old Ostozhenka's breakthrough into the company of the glamorous "golden mile".

09.08.2012

Julia Tarabarina. Andrew Gnezdilov: Visions of the Possible Future

An interview with Andrew Gnezdilov, associate director and chief architect of "Ostozhenka" bureau, a long-standing team-mate of Alexander Skokan. On the Big Moscow and Ostozhenka Street; on the trends of city development on a large and on a small scale; on "mystical" intuition that springs from quite rational and no-nonsense work with large amounts of information in a big city.

06.08.2012

Tatiana Shovskaya. A Stylish City in the Meadows

In the settlement of Zarechye of Moscow Region, the construction of the new residential compound “Grünwald” has been completed, the general designer of which has become the architectural bureau “SPEECH Choban&Kuznetsov”. This project has united four designer visions of up-to-date high-standard residential architecture.

02.04.2012

Anna Martovitskaya. Alexander Skokan: “Any architectural structure grows from its environment”

It will be safe to say that “Ostozhenka” Studio is today one of Russia’s most respected architectural offices that enjoys authority beyond exception in the professional community. Over the 20 years of its existence, it has grown from the general designer of Ostozhenka district to one of the main development contractors of Moscow agglomeration. How it all began, and what the team of this architectural studio is working on today, shares the “Ostozhenka”’s chief architect Alexander Skokan.