Kleinewelt Architekten

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Russia
Firm’s Official Site
http://www.kleinewelt.ru/

About Firm:

Kleinewelt Аrchitekten is an architectural and research company.
Our method is based on the analytical approach to designing things. Every time when we start a new project we do a cross-discipline survey that helps us to come up with adequate and at the same time interesting and unconventional solutions.

Our portfolio includes strategies for developing whole cities (Krasnoturyinsk and Michurinsk), unusual public buildings (the Winery House in Gai-Kodzor (Armenia), the Movie Theater in the Gorky Park); reconstruction of the former “communal kitchen” on the Novokuznetskaya Street in Moscow, pavilions in the Tagansky Park and at the VDNKh exhibition, a residential building on the Sivtsev Vrazhek, and a housing project in the Olsufyevsky Side-street.

We see our projects from beginning to end – starting with the preliminary survey and the first sketches and ending with author supervision of the construction. This is why we stand by our performance.

We create a cozy atmosphere and human-friendly environments regardless of the scale of our project – be that a housing project or a single office building. Each of our projects is a microcosm – a small world in, die kleine Welt.

Archi.ru Texts:

06.05.2025

Julia Tarabarina. The Colorful City

While working on a large-scale project in Moscow’s Kuntsevo district – one that has yet to be given a name – Kleinewelt Architekten proposed not only a diverse array of tower silhouettes in “Empire-style” hues and a thoughtful mix of building heights, creating a six-story “neo-urbanist” city with a block-based layout at ground level, but also rooted their design in historical and contextual reasoning. The project includes the reconstruction of several Stalin-era residential buildings that remain from the postwar town of Kuntsevo, as well as the reconstruction of a 1953 railway station that was demolished in 2017.

17.04.2025

Julia Tarabarina. The Arch and the Triangle

The new Stone Mnevniki business center by Kleinewelt Architekten – designed for the same client as their projects in Khodynka – bears certain similarities to those earlier developments, but not entirely. In Mnevniki, there are more angular elements, and the architects themselves describe the project as being built on contrast. Indeed, while the first phase contains subtle references to classical architecture – light touches like arches, both upright and inverted, evoking the spirit of the 1980s – the second phase draws more distantly on the modernism of the 1970s. What unites them is a boldly expressive public space design, a kaleidoscope of rays and triangles.

20.02.2025

Alyona Kuznetsova, Julia Tarabarina. Orion’s Belt

The Stone Khodynka 2 office complex, designed by Kleinewelt Architekten for the company Stone, is built with an ergonomic layout following “healthy building” principles: natural light, ventilation, and all the necessary features for an efficient office environment. On the outside, it resembles – like many contemporary buildings – an iPhone: sleek, glowing, glass-and-metal, edges elegantly rounded. Yet, it responds sensitively to the Khodynka context, where the main theme is the contrast between vertical and horizontal lines. The key intrigue lies in the design of the “stylobate” as a suspended passage, leaving the space beneath it open for free pedestrian movement.

06.09.2021

Julia Tarabarina. Dialectical Manifesto

The high-rise housing complex MOD, whose construction has begun in Moscow’s district of Maryina Roshcha next to the site, on which the new Russian Railways headquarters will be built, is responding to the “central” context of the future city surroundings, and at the same time is positioned by the architects as a “manifesto of Modernist minimalist principles in architecture”.