Object
Contrastive Reconstruction
Carefully but boldly reconstructing an ensemble of historical buildings, Nikita Yavein turned a former livery yard that used to belong to the Great Prince Mikhail Nikolaevich into a large academic complex. Now it looks half like a palace, half like a European university.
Company:
  • December 8, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
Interview
Alexander Popov and Dmitry Vasilyev: "The epoch of "discomfort class" is over. The time has come to change our cities".
The founders of the Kiev bureau "ARCHIMATIKA" try to change the living environment of the cities on the post-soviet territories by introducing inexpensive but very bright and positive-looking buildings. They shared with Archi.ru about their search for a real alternative to the bleak heritage of the soviet sleeping belt neighborhoods.
Archimatika
  • Anna Starostina
  • December 8, 2015
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Cannelure of the Minimalist
The voluminous construction of this residential complex reacts to the structure of the city fabric, while the geometry of its facades - to the creative search of mature modernism, although the allusions are presented in a contemporary way, with keen attention to detail.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • November 19, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
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Clever Clover, Mondrian Style
In Saint Petersburg's Moscow District, not far away from the Constitution Square, appeared a new high-rise built upon the project of "A.Len" Studio - named "Klever" ("Clover").
A-Len
  • November 11, 2015
  • Irina Bembel
Interview
Sergey Estrin: "Ceilings give you the ultimate freedom of expression".
The completion of the work on the ceiling in the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street became a newsbreak for us: we met with the author of the project Sergey Estrin and spoke to him about the functional possibilities and the ideological role of the ceiling as the culmination element of the interior design.
Sergey Estrin Architects
  • November 10, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
Object
Cloud of Knowledge
In the end of last year, Vladimir Bindeman's bureau "Arkhitekturium" took part in the open international competition for the project of a new city library "2.0" that will be built in the very heart of Copenhagen.
Arhitekturium
  • November 9, 2015
  • Tatiana Timofeeva
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Forest Lofts
PANACOM is doing the interior design project for the Voronezh-based research and production company AEDON.
PANACOM
  • November 6, 2015
  • Anna Yevstigneeva
Object
Exploring the Topic
The almost theatrical scenography, mechanisms of modern architecture and nostalgia for mansions are combined in this house so unobtrusively and subtly that one even breathes more freely around it.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • October 26, 2015
Object
Pixelation of Mytnaya
Not far from Shukhov Tower, amid the already built new housing estates, the Sky House Towers – covered partly with transparent and partly with vivid autumn-colored pixel skin – has reached its final stage of construction.
Ostozhenka Bureau
  • Alla Pavlikova
  • November 6, 2015
Interview
Rais Baishev: "I am a space packer".
One of the cofounders of "Ostozhenka" architectural bureau and the chief architect of such projects as the building of International Moscow Bank, a Residential Complex in Odintsovo, and the residential complex "Water Colors" in Balashikha shares about the role of the chief architect of the project and about his personal preferences as opposed to what is considered to be modern and fashionable.
  • October 28, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
Object
Mobility Zone
The architects of “A.Len” have not only fitted the multi-use complex in the Pulkovo Airport with a convenient arrangement of traffic and passenger flow, but also with a story-line that schematically encodes the past, present and future of the architecture.
A-Len
  • October 22, 2015
Object
Implementation Prospects
A story about a student project that the professors liked so much that they found a customer for it. A story about a housing project that can indeed be implemented in one of the districts of New Moscow.
4izmerenie
  • October 19, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
The Power of Conflict
The first place for the best contest proposal for Radisson Blue hotel complex was won by Saint Petersburg's "A.Len" with a project of an ensemble of two contrasting volumes vividly demonstrating the dialectical principle of unity and struggle of opposites.
A-Len
  • October 14, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
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Noblesse Oblige
For the best proposal contest for Radisson Blue Moscow Riverside Hotel, the team of Alexander and Andrew Asadov and Karen Saprichyan, designed a multivolume complex composition that changes beyond recognition with the shifting of its viewing angle. A cyberspace guided tour will allow for joining the pictures into a single whole.
ASADOV architects, MAHPI, GrandProektCity
  • October 12, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
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Neo-House
This is something new. Admittedly, only church architects are not frightened by the neo-Russian style. But Engeny Gerasimov has taken up the challenge and proposed a modern version of a housing estate à la russe to the center of St. Petersburg, combining “pseudo” and “neo” modern techniques.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • October 8, 2015
Object
Space of Forfeiture
Two projects of the monument to the victims of political repressions - proposed for the contest by Arch Group.
Arch Group
  • October 9, 2015
  • Darya Gorelova
Object
New Tectonics
Taking an advantage of the absence of any architectural context, the architects of Arch Group designed the building of Radisson Blu Moscow Riverside Hotel as not just organic but literally "growing" from the natural landscape. Second place in the contest for the best architectural concept.
Arch Group
  • October 5, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
Object
A Fan of Versions
Vissarionov Studio proposed two versions of architectural and engineering concept of developing the territory of the Russian Institute of Cooperation located in the Moscow suburb of Mytischi.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • October 1, 2015
  • Anna Gorodinskaya
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The Facade of Modern Medicine
At Moscow's Krasnaya Presnya, the construction of a multi profile diagnostic and treatment center of MEDCI Group is being completed.
GrandProektCity
  • Alla Pavlikova
  • September 24, 2015
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Name by Name
The project by Julius Borisov was shortlisted to become one of the ten finalists of the contest for the memorial to the victims of political repressions.
  • September 24, 2015
  • Tatiana Timofeeva
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Swallow
The warm waves of the Black Sea, the mountain slopes, the mysterious Crimean grottos, and a swallow perched between two runways - all this is Simferopol International Airport in the contest project by Asadov Bureau.
  • September 15, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Contemplation at an Urban Farm
From an architectural point of view, the “Urban Farm” at VDNKh – an entertainment and educational project meant for familiarizing children with farm animals – does not only combine the best practices of WOWhaus bureau, but also “vaccinates” the VDNKh with a light version of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.
WOWHAUS
  • Julia Tarabarina
  • September 14, 2015
Object
Man of Letters
The construction of "Literator" ("Man of Letters") residential complex has been completed: the architects made it ostentatiously modern, abandoning, among other things, the idea of the grand façade in favor of revisiting the immanent peculiarities of red and white brickwork.
, Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • September 11, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
Object
Museum Alternative
Erick van Egeraat has brought forward an alternative proposal within discussion about construction of a museum complex in the Budapest city park.
  • September 1, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
Object
Ecological Tetris
The construction of three residential districts in “Technopark” District D2 in Skolkovo innovation center is coming to an end. One of them – the tenth one – is being constructed according to the draft of UNK project that won an open tender in 2012.
  • August 25, 2015
  • Anna Starostina
Object
Filled with Gold
Within a contest project of the Creative Union “Reserve” the gold for victories is almost literally represented – it turns into a shiny ingot enclosed into orderly grate of bright stone. It is however just one of the many themes that the architecture of the building contains.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • August 24, 2015
  • Julia Tarabarina
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Ice Feel
The "flagship" building of the grand-scale sports complex situated on the territory of the former "ZIL" automotive plant - "VTB Ice Palace" - has been launched into operation. SPEECH Bureau developed the general concept and the front façade of the palace that to a large extent determines the city planning structure and the appearance of the main square of this complex named "Park of Legends".
SPEECH
  • August 10, 2015
  • Lilya Aronova
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Labyrinths of Creativity
The interior design of "Yandex" HQ: Atrium's good old and time-tested trademark techniques coupled with new interesting approaches to creating an unconventional workspace.
ATRIUM
  • August 4, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Face to the City, Roof to the Sea
Designed by Sergey Oreshkin, the terminals of Saint Petersburg's passenger port live up to their status of the city's "sea façade". And, while from the city side the guests are met by the facades that are dynamic, "soaring", and hi-tech, the passengers of the cruising liners are met be the port's artistically elaborate roofs.
A-Len
  • Lilya Aronova
  • August 3, 2015
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Art Lobby
"Savelovsky City" center has got the interior designs of the twin towers' entrance groups - the lobbies resemble galleries with sculptures hovering just under the ceiling.
  • July 24, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
Object
Roots of an Old Oak Tree
The architectural bureau PANACOM has designed a private villa in the protected zone of the Big London.
  • July 21, 2015
  • Anna Yevstigneeva
Object
In the Rhythm of Verticals
On Moscow's Sparrow Hills, the construction of a new residential complex is in progress: exquisitely modern and at the same time reasonably conservative, it sports, as is always the case with ADM, a really thought-out yard space.
ADM
  • July 8, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Two shopping "parks" built by UNK project
Efficient organization of the designing process enabled the architects of UNK Project to subject the architecture of two shopping centers to a single recognizable image despite the differences in their scale and construction conditions.
UNK
  • July 7, 2015
  • Alla Pavlikova
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Europe on the Yauza River
ADM Studio has designed a business center in Nastavnichevsky side-street, setting the trend for changing the genre standards. The new center is not a skyscraper glass tower, and not some restricted area with a security point by the gate, but a seemingly unassuming but carefully thought-through European quarter of “office townhouses”.
ADM
  • Anna Garanenko Julia Tarabarina
  • June 24, 2015