From Empty To… Full
In the prestigious villa community of Novo-Uryupino, the architectural studio TOTEMENT/PAPER reconstructed one of the houses. The house, initially executed in the traditional “New Russian” style, got an “updating” injection and a completely renovated look.
TOTEMENT/PAPER
  • December 6, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Red and White Palindrome
In the vicinity of “Elektrozavodskaya” metro station on the river Yauza's waterfront, the architectural studio “Sergey Skuratov Architects” is designing a new mixed-use development.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • December 5, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Economical Architect’s House
While designing a country house for himself, the architect Roman Leonidov proceeded from the need for reasonable savings of his resources and therefore came up with a simple and extremely cost-efficient solution.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • November 30, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
“Shifting Cubes” Solution
On Savvinskaya Embankment, next to the so-called “Japanese House”, Vladimir Plotkin designs a residential compound sporting several green terraces.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • November 28, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Cells and Capsules of the Future
The team of Yuri Vissarionov’s personal architectural workshop has spent some time with the reporter of Archi.ru and shared about their renovation project of “Pushkinsky” movie theater, done in the framework of “Changing the Face” international competitive bid.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • November 21, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Golden Canyon City
The only Russian participant of the international competitive bid for the development of the last vacant lot on the territory of “Moscow City” International Business Center was “Sergey Skuratov Architects” Studio.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • November 17, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Transparent Hyperboloid
Late in September, the construction of “Saint Petersburg Plaza” business center was completed in Saint Petersburg. This building that has already won several prestigious industry awards became one of the landmark projects of 2011.
Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners, SPEECH
  • November 14, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Innovation Mechanism
The list of the participants of the competitive bid for the best renovation project of Moscow Polytechnic Museum included, among others, the architectural workshop named “Studio 44”. And, in spite of the fact that the project of Nikita Yavein’s team did not win the contest, the experts gave it an honorable mention for the detailed approach and attempts to deal with the most challenging issues of the building located at Lubyanskaya Square.
Company:
  • November 8, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
By Right of the Nearest Neighbor
On Kulneva Street, Moscow, next to the Third Transport Ring, “SPEECH Choban&Kuznetsov” Studio is designing a new mixed-use development.
SPEECH
  • November 7, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Sculptural Minimalism
On Rostov-on-Don’s main embankment, “Sergey Skuratov Architects” Studio has designed a new residential compound that promises to become the city’s new skyscraper centerpiece.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • November 1, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Atmospheric Phenomena
Working upon the redevelopment project of the “Novoslobodskaya” Metro Station neighborhood, the architects of ADM Studio opted in favor of keeping the regular housing of the XIX century intact, and focused on the design of the courtyards, creating an atmosphere of peace and comfort.
ADM
  • October 31, 2011
  • Anna Starostina
Space Flagship
This year, on the territory of the future “Vostochny” (“East”) space port, OAO “IPROMASHPROM” begins to build the first administration and office building.
IPROMASHPROM
  • October 13, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Scarlet Sail
As part of the ambitious town-planning project for building “Golden Ring” resort, Totan Kuzembaev architectural office is working upon several sub-projects at a time.
Totan
  • October 10, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Functionality in warm shades
MARR Plaza, a new office center, will be launched soon nearby Krasnaya Presnya. This building adds German respectability and pragmatism to the aesthetics of proletarian old industrial district.
ABV Group
  • October 6, 2011
  • Anna Garanenko
The Ships of Every Flag and Nation Will Hail Our Shores
In preparation for the Volgograd World Cup 2018, “A.Asadov Architectural Studio” designs a new stadium and a hotel chain, as well as reconstructs the Volgograd airport and railway station.
ASADOV architects
  • October 4, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Illusions of Color
In Moscow suburbs town of Mytischi, a competitive bid for the residential building project has reached its final. The building is to be located in the very center of the town. The list of the participants of this bid included “Sergey Kiselev and Partners” Studio.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • October 3, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Copper Stalagmites of Pyatigorsk
In the very heart of Pyatigorsk, “Sergey Kiselev and Partners” Studio has designed a deluxe high-rise residential compound with a simple yet expressive silhouette that was pre-determined by the surrounding mountains.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • September 19, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Theater in cube
In the South Korean city of Pusan there was held an international open architectural contest on the best project of the Opera Theater. One of the participants of this contest was the architectural bureau TOTEMENT / PAPER.
TOTEMENT/PAPER
  • September 14, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Multiple Solutions
Designing the façade of the hotel on the Strastnoy Boulevard, right next to Pushkin monument, Pavel Andreev lay before his clients a whole set of solutions: from laconic colorful minimalism and “Stalin Empire” style to moderate variations of modern and postmodern.
Paul Andreev
  • September 13, 2011
  • Tatiana Timofeeva
On the Crest of the Wave
In the former stead of Saint Petersburg dairy plant “Petmol” (“Petersburg Milk”) that occupied an area of 11 hectares on the corner of Moskovsky Avenue and the embankment of the Obvodnoi (“Bypass”) Channel, “Reserve” Studio designed a residential compound with a total area of 340 000 square meters.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • September 12, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Palace Coup d’Etat
Russia’s only finalist in the competitive bid for the reconstruction project of Saint Petersburg’s “New Holland” district (yes, Saint Petersburg has a New Holland of its own – translator’s note) was “Studio 44”. Archi.ru is publishing Nikita Yavein and his team’s comments on their plan of reviving this Saint Petersburg’s arguably most enigmatic island.
Company:
  • September 7, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Migrating nests
"Nests of light" designed by “Panacom” bureau is one of the brightest (everyway) objects of the past "Archstoyanie"-2011. Having significant media component, it has reasonable chance to go to independent swimming. At least the authors believe that the glowing spheres can multiply and migrate from the forest to the city. Arseny Leonovish talk about it in the interview to Archi.ru.
PANACOM
  • September 6, 2011
  • Anna Garanenko
Fretwork box
In Vladimir Plotkin’s project the hotel building located in the historic center of Rubleny town – Kremlin of the Yaroslavl city - resembles a white fret work box. It is sited among the two monuments within the limiting lines and transforms the church ruins - which belongs to the end of the 17th century and discovered by the archeologist - into a museum.
Creative Union ‘Reserve’
  • September 5, 2011
  • Julia Tarabarina
Delicate office
Development projects frozen during the crisis are gradually "melting". At that recovery of the blocked constructions is often accompanied by radical change of their architectural style. Like instead of a futuristic glass office center of London based KPF bureau on the Garden Ring nearbt "Serpukhovskaya" metro station (Korovi val str., 5) there will appear an elegant building with ceramic facades, which is regularly used in the projects of ABV Group company.
ABV Group
  • August 31, 2011
  • Anna Garanenko
Skillful Plastics
This house in Moscow’s “artist village” named “Sokol”, with its unusual-looking roof, was built a few years ago by Vladislav Platonov (“Carlson & Co” development and construction company).
Karlson & Co
  • August 29, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Logistics specialist centre
PTAM of Yuri Vissarionov designed a hotel building with offices in Zelenograd.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • August 24, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya Julia Tarabarina
avant-garde
On Veshnyakovskaya street there has been completed construction of a shopping center upon the project of Yuri Vissarionov’s bureau.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • August 16, 2011
  • Julia Tarabarina
High-speed designing
In record short time "Architectural studio of Sergei Estrin" designed a project of new offices of Russian Railways two sub-companies - Federal Passenger Company and the Second Freight Company. It took month from the date they got the contract to the day when the construction was started.
Sergey Estrin Architects
  • August 4, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Headquarter
“Nordeo” company is building a new office construction between Kostyansky and Ulansky lanes. It is designed by creative team led by Paul Andreev. Their client is “Lukoil”. The complex will complete development of their headquarter block on Sretensky boulevard.
Paul Andreev
  • August 1, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Office for high technologies
This year one of the winners of the Best Office Awards became ABD Architects project of the Siemens corporation Moscow office.
ABD architects
  • July 28, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Rosy prospects
The architectural studio «Speech Tchoban/Kuznetsov" has designed a private regular school nearby the well-known “Drozdy” water raisin in Minsk.
SPEECH
  • July 25, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Red Brick Future
This spring, GUTA Development Company organized its second competitive bid for the project of a residential building at Bolotnaya embankment. This time around, it had to do with the site located exactly in the middle between the Patriarchy Bridge and the land spit that splits the Moskva River and the Drainage Canal. The list of the participants of this bid included “Sergey Kiselev and Partners” Studio.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • July 19, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Red and Gray
In the context of the contest on the project of a residential complex on Bolotnaya embankment OOO “Sergey Kiselyov and Partners” architectural bureau" designed two apartment buildings, artistic image of was inspired by the "Bathing of a Red Horse” painting.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • July 6, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Consoles on the slope
In the Moscow vicinity the architect Roman Leonidov designed a house of complex dynamic form, where asymmetric consoles play the main part.
Studio of Roman Leonidov
  • July 5, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Architecture of Animation
The Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology was opened on the 1st of June in the south-west district in Moscow. It is a perfect example of therapeutic architecture – a childly simple and almost ad-optimistic cartoon-building
ASADOV architects
  • July 5, 2011
  • Anna Garanenko
Gateway to Space
This summer there will be started construction of a new Russian spaceport in the Russian Far East. The IPROMASHPROM design institute is commissioned to design all of the objects of this gigantic complex.
IPROMASHPROM
  • July 1, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Handmade House
The architect Vladislav Platonov (ACB "Carlson and K") built a black-and-white house in the famous ‘’Sokol” village of artists. Gifted with a memorable silhouette and bright appearance, the mansion, which the author calls the "Yin Yang", is creatively developing traditions of the development of this unique for a megapolis area.
Karlson & Co
  • June 28, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Forest Gates
A large 2000 sq m house designed by the architectural bureau PANAKOM nearby Moscow is grand, imposing and is full of various regular in our days joys from a swimming pool to a cinema. However, all these sweets of life are just delicately arranged propylaeum: gate to the pine forest, which resides on the other half of the site.
PANACOM
  • June 22, 2011
  • Julia Tarabarina
Town within town
ADM architectural bureau succeeded in improving the project of a giant Moscow house. They made its living environment more comfortable with the help of inner courtyards, cut directly into the building. Well, the architects joined the Moscow reality of large apartment buildings with the ideals of new urbanism.
ADM
  • June 21, 2011
  • Anna Starostina
Loft of manufacturing departments
Architectural bureau "City-Arch" is one of the participants of the ambitious project on design of a Moscow business city-block "Danilovskaya Manufactory 1867". There are four buildings of manufacturing departments on the territory of former textile factory are being reconstructed according to their projects.
City-Arch
  • June 15, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
A prototype in the pines
Folded covering which is both roof and walls, various materials, and irregular shape – if the construction had been completed 5 years earlier, this object could have become a signature work of Anton Nadtochy and Vera Butko.
ATRIUM
  • June 6, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Alignment of Planets… and Sport Stars
“Studio 44” Architectural Workshop developed the project for building an 18-thousand-square-meters-strong track-and-field sports center at Yuri Gagarin Avenue in Saint Petersburg. However, as often is the case, the material implementation was vastly different from the original idea.
Company:
  • May 10, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Red-yellow line
The architectural studio “Sergey Kiselev & Partners” is designing a new housing estate nearby Ulyankovo and Pirogov reservoir in Moscow region. It will include cottages and townhouses, and a long apartment building of red and yellow palette is expected to become a landmark.
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
  • May 4, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Support for the sport
PTAM Vissarionov designed a sports complex for the Russian State Social University, where any student can choose from a variety of sports classes instead of routine physical education classes.
Architectural bureau of Yuri Vissarionov
  • April 29, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Colorful daily routine of the science
Architectural studio of Sergey Estrin have made the interior design project for the research center «Schlumberger», a recognized worldwide leader in the field of oil production high technologies.
Sergey Estrin Architects
  • April 21, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Democratic module
The architectural bureau “Sergei Skuratov Architects” won the international contest on the concept of a residential complex which will be built on Paveletskaya embankment. On the territory of the former Moscow cardboard printing and publishing factory the architects suggest constructing a kind of campus - a convenient and stylish area, designed primarily for young people.
Sergey Skuratov architects
  • April 18, 2011
  • Anna Martovitskaya
Unity in Variety
Oleg Carlson built three wooden houses in Moscow’s suburbs - all three having similar layouts based on one shared module. In spite of the similarity of the layouts and almost the same sizes, the houses look very unlike one another – one can even say that each of them represents once certain epoch in the history of architecture.
Karlson & Co
  • April 14, 2011
  • Julia Tarabarina