“Garden Quarters” is a unique project, not only because it has created a unique residential space for Moscow, and not even because many popular urban planning ideas were first proposed there by Sergey Skuratov, very early on, still in 2006, and were implemented with such meticulousness, despite a number of challenges, that it stands as one of the rare examples for the nation’s capital. This project is also interesting as an example of the collaborative work of several architects – a method that later became “fashionable”, but was first introduced here, very early on in 2007, and was implemented as a collection of individual architectural statements: the developer divided the project among architects, not by facades or specializations, but by whole buildings and parts of the major-scale housing complex. Sergey Skuratov, like an enthusiastic conductor, “orchestrated” this concert for 15 years, not forgetting to maintain the overall melody and adding a few meaningful key accents of his own.

In the first quarter, there are two buildings designed by Maxim Kurenny and his company named “500”. The fourth quarter “holds” Efremova Street with Yuri Grigoryan’s (Meganom) “fortress towers” and surprises with Andrey Savin’s (A-B) “felt boot” building made of greenish copper and “springs”. Sergey Choban’s “folded” brick building stretches deep from Usacheva Street along the border of the third quarter.

The final touch was the second quarter, located on the side of 3rd Frunzenskaya Street.