UNK

12.09.2019

Julia Tarabarina. Mega-Smart City

In this issue, we are covering the results of the competition for the architectural and town planning concept of “Rublevo-Arkhangelskoe”, which was once supposed to be turned into a “city of millionaires”. The competition took place in the fall of 2018, with three teams winning: Archea Associatii, Nikken Sekkei, and Zaha Hadid Architects, each one in collaboration with their respective Russian partner – ABD architects, UNK project, and TPO Pride Architects.

30.07.2019

Natalia Koriakovskaia. The Periscope Principle

Yuliy Borisov found a nontrivial image that turned a rank-and-file “crate” project of the Palace of Martial Arts in Luzhniki into an iconic building, glittering and modern, yet endowed with contextual allusions and capable of active interaction with people and the surrounding territory.

19.03.2019

. New Generation School

How does a school that has no room for boredom look like? This question was answered by UNK project in their project (no pun intended) of the educational complex to be built in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, which got a name of “Neskuchnaya Shkola” (“Boredom-free School”).

05.03.2018

Remembering Bauhaus

Can one express in architecture the connection between Bauhaus School and its professor Vasily Kandinsky? Working on a housing project with maximum values of density, depth, and height, UNK Project made such an attempt, arranging in a freehand manner several 12-story slabs in three dimensions of a waterfront area.

19.12.2017

Elena Petukhova. Urban Gardens

In their project of renovating city blocks in the district of Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, the UNK project architects relied upon the principle of similarity, scaling down the compositional and functional patterns that are characteristic for the entire Moscow.

05.07.2017

Anna Starostina. Lens in the Spirit of Maurits Escher

The architects of UNK project brought back to life a difficult yet promising land site next to the “Prospect Vernadskogo” metro station, building the “Academic” business center upon it. The thought-out functional program, technological innovations, and special attention given to forming the building’s identity helped to successfully overcome all the challenges.

09.06.2017

Natalya Muradova. Julius Borisov: “The next generation will change their apartments like gadgets”

At the panel discussion “For whom and how do we build our housing projects?” held within the framework of the urban forum named “Sreda dlya Zhizni” (translated as “Living Environment”), the head of UNK Project spoke about how the housing will look for “Generation Z”. We asked Julius Borisov to share in more detail about how in his opinion the criteria of evaluating the quality of housing and the architect’s work will change in the future.

23.05.2017

Natalya Muradova. Julius Borisov: "You can’t make a positive difference to people’s lives with graphic design alone"

At the workshop called “Vesenniy Marsh” (“The Spring March”), the team of Julius Borisov proposed not just a project of renovating the settlement of Staroe Drozhanoye, but a whole new program of its ecological development – tying in ecological and economic considerations.

27.06.2016

Anna Starostina. Not the Kind of Loft You Would Expect

In the sales office of a "Sreda" residential complex, the architects of UNK project have made a model of a man-adapted reconstruction of industrial buildings.

21.03.2016

Anna Starostina. Portentous and Polite

Kazakhstan's city of Uralsk is seeing the completion of the construction of a business center designed by UNK project. The building merges with the sky and interacts as a peer with the historical environment of the city.