WOWHAUS

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Buildings and Projects:

Reconstruction of the restaurant of the Central House of Writers
Dmitry Likin, Oleg Shapiro, 2014

Reconstruction of the restaurant of the Central House of Writers

Russia, Moscow
Buildings and Projects Shown: 1

Archi.ru Texts:

10.07.2025

Alyona Kuznetsova. The Flower of the Lake

The prototype for the building of the Kamal Theater in Kazan is an ice flower: a rare and fragile natural phenomenon of Lake Kaban “froze” in the large, soaring outlines of the glass screens enclosing the main volume, shaping its silhouette and shielding the stained-glass windows from the sun. The project, led by the Wowhaus consortium and including global architecture “star” Kengo Kuma, won the 2021/2022 competition and was realized close to the original concept in a short – very short – period of time. The theater opened in early 2025. It was Kengo Kuma who proposed the image of an ice flower and the contraposition of cold on the outside and warmth on the inside. Between 2022 and 2024, Wowhaus did everything possible to bring this vision to life, practically living on-site. Now we are taking a closer look at this landmark building and its captivating story.
13.06.2024

. Frozen Magma

A competition for the creation of a public and cultural center was held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Three architectural companies made it to the final, and we consider it important to share about the work of each. Let’s start with the winner – the consortium led by Wowhaus.
23.04.2024

Julia Tarabarina. The Paradox of the Temporary

The concept of the Russian pavilion for EXPO 2025 in Osaka, proposed by the Wowhaus architects, is the last of the six projects we gathered from the 2022 competition. It is again worth noting that the results of this competition were not finalized due to the cancellation of Russia’s participation in World Expo 2025. It should be mentioned that Wowhaus created three versions for this competition, but only one is being presented, and it can’t be said that this version is thoroughly developed – rather, it is done in the spirit of a “student assignment”. Nevertheless, the project is interesting in its paradoxical nature: the architects emphasized the temporary character of the pavilion, and in its bubble-like forms sought to reflect the paradoxes of space and time.
09.06.2023

Julia Tarabarina. The Black Mountain

The project of reconstructing the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet theater developed by Wowhaus, which won the competition, proposed a total demolition and new construction, as well as considerable expansion (up to 8 floors) – and transformable multifunctional spaces. The new project, however, does retain the recognizable elements and the image of the old theater. As for the main spectator hall, it is turned – figuratively speaking, of course – into a semblance of a black volcano.
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:

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

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”