One of such projects is the architectural concept of Vyacheslav Tretyak’s sport school developed by iCube. There will be the two main sections – the hockey school and the commercial part: a megamall, supermarket and an office centre. The second, commercial part, is about nine times larger than the school’s part – an absolutely typical example of a Moscow investment construction. How does it look outside then?

Quite Europe-like. The conceptual core of the complex – the hockey school is extended forward and looks like a glass “earth-ball”, lined with a net of diagonal sections. The “mushroom” is like an enlarged ice stalagmite, one of those kind-of-columns that grow at the time of early spring. This analogy is easy to explain – there will be the ice arena, so shape is ‘telling’ about it, with sculptural and architectural means reflecting the purpose of the construction.

The rest buildings back it. The building of the megamall is as usual low and stretched along the site. The front façade is a like a display that is reflecting the glass sculpture of the hockey school. Its surface actively reacts to the neighbor – slightly bends, backing out, also creating a glass spot in the middle – windows, chaotically spread over the rest surface, resembling large pixels of a digital image.
In contrast with non-transparent and spread out over the ground megamall’s construction, the office centre, is as usual again, is glass and quite vertical, in a way resembling a half open book. The book-building views the place, echoing the idea of the incurved mall’s façade.

The three parts are matched and set against at same time – they talk, and during it there occur similarities and differences, key points are highlighted. This is the architectural studio’s fine approach to the Moscow idea of investment construction, with the commercial-dominated spaces.