Report
Two-Tier Life
On of the projects that won the bid for Skolkovo’s “Technology Park” residential area is the townhouse quarter by Vera Butko and Anton Nadtochiy. It looks very much like a sculpture of some giant mechanism and, obviously, echoes the profession of its future inhabitants.
ATRIUM
  • September 7, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya Julia Tarabarina
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Home in the Clouds Up High
Sergey Estrin architectural studio has developed the design project of a penthouse that is to be situated in "Gorod Stolits" ("City of Capitals") skyscraper on the territory of Moscow International Business Center.
Sergey Estrin Architects
  • September 3, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
Review
QR-Code Style
At Venice Arch Biennale, the “I-City” exposition of Russian pavilion has opened its doors.
  • August 28, 2012
  • Julia Tarabarina
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Hill of Fame
Among other cities, the list of possible candidates to host FIFA World Cup in 2018 includes Nizhniy Novgorod. For the famous Nizhniy Novgorod’s “Strelka” (“Arrow”, place where the Oka flows into the Volga), “Studio 44” has designed a stadium in the shape of man-made green hill topped off with a white cup.
Company:
  • August 24, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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In the Dataflow Zone
Sergey Estrin architectural studio has come up with a design project for the interior of Moscow office of the famous “Fitch Ratings” global rating agency.
Sergey Estrin Architects
  • August 23, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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Red, White, Green
This spring, Creative Production Enterprise “Reserve” won the tender for designing a residential complex in Moscow’s Preobrazhensky district. The complex that is going to house over 900 apartments is treated by the architects as one that consists of two self-contained independent green compounds.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • August 16, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Bridge-and-Tower Composition
ABD Architects bureau has completed the project of a shopping and leisure center in Krasnodar.
ABD architects
  • August 14, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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Same Platform, Different Station
At the commission OAO “Roszheldorproject”, “Studio 44” architectural workshop developed generic proposals on reorganization and renovation of train station complexes of three resort cities of Krasnodar Territory at once – Tuapse, Lazareskoe, and Khosta.
Company:
  • August 13, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Interview
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.
Ostozhenka Bureau
  • August 9, 2012
  • Julia Tarabarina
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My House Is My Castle
While designing a residential compound in Moscow’s Preobrazhensky district, architect Sergey Skuratov introduces a new spin of two favorite themes of his – the brick fortress and the garden quarters.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • August 6, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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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.
Ostozhenka Bureau, SPEECH
  • August 6, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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Canon vs Modernity: Mission Possible
This spring, Sergey Estrin studio was invited to participate in the closed tender for the design project of Sretenskaya School of Theology. One of the mandatory requirements of the bid was the one for up-to-date solutions for the public spaces of this educational institution.
Sergey Estrin Architects
  • July 26, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Horse Catamaran
In the near future, on the 24th kilometer of Rublevskoe Highway, the new “President Polo Club” will be built. Most of its facilities are now being designed by Totan Kuzembaev architectural studio.
Totan
  • July 24, 2012
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
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Architectural Words and Phrases
The project of a residential building offered by Eugene Gerasimov Studio to be built on Pobedy Street in Saint Petersburg, combines retro phrases and a modern vision.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners
  • June 25, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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Vertical Solution
Vladimir Plotkin and Roberto Meyer offered to Moscow City a new tower typology – a block consisting of a few buildings put on the “shoulders” of one another and thus forming a silhouette of a symbolically rendered letter “M”.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’, Meyer en Van Schooten Architecten
  • May 30, 2012
  • Julia Tarabarina
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Sensual Adaptability
The story of TOTEMENT/PAPER Bureau participating in the competitive bid for the housing project “Technopark” area of “Skolkovo” innovation centre and about the concepts that were developed in the course of this competition, is shared by the leader of this company, architect Levon Airapetov.
TOTEMENT/PAPER
  • May 21, 2012
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Etude in Brick Shades
“Kiselev and Partners” architectural bureau has finished designing a villa community with a picturesque name of “Etude”. Apart from private houses, the place is going to feature a few apartment buildings, while the overall style of the community is close to the laconic Scandinavian design.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • May 14, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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In the Language of High Renaissance
The project of the landscape solution for the courtyards of the residential compound “Italian Quarter”, offered by “Sergey Kiselev and Partners” studio, turns a new page in the “playing the classics” game that Mikhail Filipov started.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • May 10, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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Delicate Contrast
In the 1st Smolensky Side-Street, the architectural studio “Group ABV” is building an elite residential house.
ABV Group
  • May 2, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
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Interior Design: the Healing Power
The interior design department of “ABD Architects” has completed the remodelling project for the multi-field hospital “Klinika 31”.
ABD architects
  • April 25, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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Happy Medium
In the center of Vitebsk, “City-Arch” is designing a new administration and business centre. Its image includes the stylistic devices of contemporary architecture as well as the features of the surrounding historical housing.
City-Arch
  • April 23, 2012
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
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Extreme Architecture
In the village of Gribki located 15 kilometres away from Moscow, “Asadov Architectural Bureau” has designed a new shopping mall. The architectural solution of the centre that is going to specialize in selling products and equipment for the extreme sports and active leisure, fully answers its future function.
ASADOV architects
  • April 16, 2012
  • Tatiana Pashintseva
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Binominal by PANAKOM
In Dubna, one of Russia’s most famous Science Towns, located in Moscow area, PANAKOM architectural studio has designed a living block meant for young researches and scientists and their families.
PANACOM
  • April 12, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Aleksey Ivanov: Architecture lowers the investor’s risks
“Arkhstroydesign ASD Aleksey Ivanov Architectural Studio” that has implemented over 50 projects all over Russia, is celebrating its 17th anniversary this year. How it all began, and what the team of this architectural studio is working on today, shares its leader Aleksey Ivanov.
Arkhstroydesign ASD
  • April 11, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Timber Paradise
The year before last, Roman Leonidov and Olga Budenaya designed a private house in one of Moscow area settlements, and last summer the owner of this house ordered them a guest house, again leaving the authors to their own creative devices.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • April 9, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Blocks on the Slope
Vladimir Plotkin, one of the most famous Moscow architects, spends this year part of his time in the city of Vladivostok at the Far East coast of Russia, where he is planning a residential compound with an area of almost 120 Hectares.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • April 4, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Office with a Human Face
For X5 Retail Group Company, ADM Architects Bureau has designed an innovative headquarters that looks more like a business park sprawling freely in the suburban land.
ADM
  • April 3, 2012
  • Tatiana Shovskaya
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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.
Ostozhenka Bureau
  • April 2, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Nature Faceted
In the south-west of Moscow region, the architectural office “Atrium” is building a private hotel. In order to visually minimize the rather large volume, the architects employed their favorite tactic – they made the building look like a natural part of the landscape.
ATRIUM
  • March 28, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
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Pedestrian Arc
Not far away from the Moscow’s suburb of Istra, “Architecturium” studio has designed a low-rise mixed-use development. The new district with a cozy pedestrian street in the middle will become an integral part of “Svetlogorye” settlement.
Arhitekturium
  • March 27, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Around the Brick Square
A year ago, “Sergey Skuratov Architects” studio won the international bid for the concept of the new residential compound that will be built of the territory of the former “Moscow’s printing and publishing integrated works”.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • March 26, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Through the Patterns
In a picturesque suburb of Moscow, the architects Roman Leonidov and Olga Budenaya have built an exquisite house. While its architecture shows constructivist features, its interior is ruled by art deco motifs.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • March 19, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Graphics Museum
This summer, a new Museum of Architectural Graphics is going to open in Berlin; the museum building was designed by Sergey Choban and Sergey Kuznetsov.
SPEECH, Tchoban Voss Architekten
  • March 12, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Transfiguration of the Façade
Moscow’s “Pavel Andreev Architectural Studio” has finished the reconstruction of “Promstroiproekt Institute” building on Komsomolsky Avenue.
Paul Andreev
  • March 7, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Fractional Scale
In the Center of Nizhny Novgorod, “Studio 44” is designing a new hotel complex.
Company:
  • February 21, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Southern Circle
In Adler district of Sochi, Yuri Vissarionov’s Architectural Workshop is building a 4-star recreation center. Bearing the traditional for the local southern resorts name of “Yuzhny” (“Southern”), this center has in it all the necessary infrastructure meant to provide its inhabitants comfortable recreation and retreat.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • February 7, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Housing Zigzag
In Rostov-on-Don, the architectural studio “A.Asadov Architectural Studio” is designing a new residential compound.
ASADOV architects
  • February 6, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Town in the Woods
On the territory of the former children’s summer camp (aptly called “pioneer camp” back in Soviet Russia – translator’s note) not far from Moscow suburb of Domodedovo, Yuri Vissarionov’s Architectural Workshop is building a resort that is going to include a hotel, a few villas, an aqua park, a sports club, and a conference center.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • February 2, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Tinted History
If there was a list of last year’s most notable architectural premiers, it would definitely include the building of the bank “Saint Petersburg” built by “Eugene Gerasimov and Partners” in cooperation with “nps tchoban voss” and “SPEECH Choban and Kuznetsov” on Saint Petersburg’s Malookhtinsky Avenue. Recently, the architects completed their work on the interiors of this project – the updated solutions are aptly added with the photos of Saint Petersburg’s major banks.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners, SPEECH, Tchoban Voss Architekten
  • January 30, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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A House by the Lake
In “Antonovka” villa community, the architectural studio “Panakom” has designed a free-standing residential building.
PANACOM
  • January 24, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Love Island Code
In Ukraine’s city of Vinnitsa, “A.Asadov Architectural Studio” developed two projects at once – the project for reconstructing Kemp Island and a new 4-star hotel.
ASADOV architects
  • January 17, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Two Elements of Color
In the vicinity of Khodynsky Field, in a house situated on Aviakonstructora Mikhoyana Street, TOTEMENT/PAPER has implemented a residential interior design project.
TOTEMENT/PAPER
  • January 16, 2012
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Blitz-Building or How to Build a Palace in Six Months
The city of Astana (Kazakhstan) saw the completion of the construction of the School Students Activity Center build by the project of “Studio 44”. On the 8th of December, on the eve of Kazakhstan’s Independence Day, the inauguration ceremony took place.
Company:
  • December 26, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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“Comfort” Pill
This summer, “Sergey Estrin Architectural Workshop” implemented the project of Sanofi-Aventis Company’s new office.
Sergey Estrin Architects
  • December 22, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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Corporeality of the Place
In Moscow’s district of Khamovniki, at Leo Tolstoy Street, the architectural studio “Sergey Kisselev and Partners” is designing a new mixed-use residential cluster. Located on the second line of development, it will leave the overall look of the street virtually unchanged, creating at the same time a few cozy courtyards inside the block.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • December 20, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
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A House with an Architectural Fable
While implementing the project of a residential building in Khilkov side-street, the architects of “ABV Group” were faced with the necessity to relearn the all-but-forgotten skills of interworking with sculptors. Architecture, however, was to become the main subject matter of the reliefs: to the careful observer, the façades display theatrical scenes narrating of the twists and turns of the history of architecture.
ABV Group
  • December 19, 2011
  • Maria Lyndina
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Knowledge Triangle
In Kaluga region, the studio “Architectural Dialogue with the Megalopolis” has designed the school building for “Kitezh” community that unites adopting parents. This time around, however, the architects got engaged in the dialogue not with the dense city housing but with idyllic rural hill scenery...
ADM
  • December 15, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya