Projects 13 Created 08-Jan-16 By karina almeida, são paulo, Brazil Copper House Moscow, Sergey Skuratov housing A house at the sea Centrosoyuz Building Strelka Institute Boris Eifman Dance Academy Tsvetnoy Central Market 9 Eliseyev Emporium 10 Former German Embassy Building 11 St Petersburg, Peter Behrens embassy, government, office 5 Krymskaya embankment 12 Moscow, Wowhaus fountain, park, promenade 6 Kirovsky District Soviet 13 St Petersburg, Noi Trotsky government, office 7 St Petersburg, Studio 44 museum 4 St Petersburg, Studio 44 education, student housing General Staff Building Arthouse St Petersburg, Gavriil Baranovskiy office, shop, theatre Moscow, Wowhaus bar, education, kiosk, mixed-use development 3 Moscow, Le Corbusier office moscow, Sergey Skuratov apartment, dwellings, housing St Petersburg, NPS Tchoban Voss dwellings, urban plan 2 Soviet elite housing 14 St Petersburg, Eugeny Levinson dwellings 8 Moscow, Project Meganom market, mixed-use development http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 1
photo: Vasily Dolzhansky photo: Vasily Dolzhansky Copper House Butikovskii Pereylok 3 pos5 119021 Moscow The three volumes of the complex are linked by a narrow glass gallery, which appears as a backdrop for the small inner courtyards With its façade of tinted glass and patinated copper, the house blends into the landscape of the riverbank while still retaining its modern, urban appearance The peculiarity of the place is in the necessity to create a link between the adjacent large buildings, embankment and small public garden at the intersection of two narrow streets Thus the broken line of new dwelling complex composed of three different sized buildings follows the green channel which starts at Zachatjevsky monastery and ends on the river bank Any "standard" house would`ve become a dam across this channel, so the park-like character was given to the new composition quite intentionally The system of three houses unified with continuous ground floor through passage makes its interior an inseparable part of the adjacent landscape Project is not public! 2004 Sergey Skuratov photo: Vasily Dolzhansky Tjeerske http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 2
photo: A Narodizkij photo: A Narodizkij A house at the sea Naberezhnaya Martynova 74 197110 St Petersburg An apartment hotel and a housing complex in St Petersburg near the waterfront consisting of twelve individual buildings, some joined by a single-storey structure Arranged in an S-shaped form, the buildings form two spaces, each with its own character The?Parade Esplanade?, a tree-skirted avenue, with a fountain as an extension of the Grebny Canal axis, forms the centrepiece of the complex; the other space is a rather secluded, quiet recreation zone with promenades and green spaces The facade solutions of the complex are a blend of modern style and historical features of St Petersburg Details characteristic of French, Italian and other schools of southern architecture typified by venetian blinds, window shutters fastened to the outer walls, which are rendered in decorative elements in stone, produce an unexpected interpretation of the artistic image of the complex photo: A Narodizkij Project is not public! 2009 Main designer,, Urban planner, Urban planner NPS Tchoban Voss a-object Evgeny Gerasimov & partners http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 3
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Centrosoyuz Building Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 39 101000 Moscow Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret won in 1928 the international competition for the design of the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives' headquarters, the Centrosoyuz They completed the entire design plans but didn't take part on the construction works, due to disagreement with Soviet's authorities The direction of the work was carried out by Nikolai Kolli, who was in contact with Le Corbusier by mail The completed building was faithful to Le Corbusier's principles, it reflects clearly the five points of architecture, but suffered changes in the interior claddings according to the new taste of the Stalinist era The building's site was between Myasnitskaya Street and a new planned avenue, Prospekt Sakharov which was not opened until 1960's The layout is composed by three rectangular volumes for the offices and a fourth curved volume facing the new avenue for the hall and the auditorium The building shows big curtain wall surfaces and the walls clad with red Armenian tuff stone photo: Nazar Leskiw Project is not public! 1936 Main designer, Cooperating designer Le Corbusier Nikolai Dzhemsovich Kolli Pierre Jeanneret Frantisek Sammer Jose_Garcia Metro Station: Turgenevskaya, Sretenskiy Bul'var or Chistye Prudy http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 4
photo: Sergey Leontiev photo: Sergey Leontiev Strelka Institute Bersenevskaya Embankment 14, bldg 5A 119072 Moscow http://strelkacom Strelka Institute is a non-profit organization aimed at generating knowledge, producing new ideas and making them come true Its lecture halls and studios provide free tuition for international young specialists with backgrounds in architecture, design, social sciences, etc Its courtyard hosts open lectures, conferences and film screenings Its bar provides both a place for the social networking of creative people from around the globe and a source of Strelka's financial backing: what the bar earns goes to support the institute Strelka is located on the grounds of the former Red October chocolate factory, on Bolotny Island - two steps away from the Kremlin, the notorious House on the Embankment, and Gorky Park Strelka comprises four studios, a lecture hall, a media library, a large courtyard amphitheatre, and Strelka Bar with a rooftop summer terrace photo: Sergey Leontiev 2010 Client Wowhaus Strelka Institute ndreij The courtyard is open to public all year round In summer public events (lectures, screenings, discussions, gigs etc) are held almost every day In winter months public events are rare but you still can grab a drink in the bar Check the website for the schedule of events and bar opening hours before you visit Cross the pedestrian bridge from Kropotkinskaya metro station, 5 min walk http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 5
photo: Studio 44 photo: Studio 44 Boris Eifman Dance Academy Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street 14b 197198 St Petersburg Boris Eifman Dance Academy occupies a historical block with two existing buildings: a former cinema house (1913, architect F Korzuhin) and a former private house (1896, architect A Reinberg) Two new volumes appeared on the parcel, teaching and dormitory blocks The hall of residence accommodates 135 students and a medical centre, the teaching block contains 2 ballet classes, physical training centre and administration The gap between the new volumes is interpreted as an atrium, where recreation spaces co-exist with 12 rehearsal halls A system of stairs and transit links serve to inter-unite all of the Academy spaces To provide more light inside the Academy the walls of recreation spaces and ballet classes were realized in semitransparent glass photo: Studio 44 Floor area/size 2012 11939 m² Client Studio 44 St Petersburg Committee for City Planning and ure erofusha http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 6
photo: Studio 44 photo: Studio 44 General Staff Building Palace Sq 6-8 191186 St Petersburg The General Staff Building (1820-1830, architect Carl I Rossi), one of the symbols of the n Empire and one of the peaks of the n Empire style, will become part of the State Hermitage, a Museum of 19th and 20th century art The complexity of this project lies not only in the strict rules on renovations for monuments protected by the state, but also in the problem of adapting a ministry (ie, office / residential) building constructed at the beginning of the 19th century into a 21st century museum complex The New Big Enfilade is the core of figurative and functional-spatial structure of a new museum; it occupies the dominant position in the hierarchy of its spaces The ground floor located under it is presented as a continuation of Palace Square itself which permeates though into the main lobby, the largest of five court yards and a smart ladder-amphitheatre bringing a new city forum with the commerce accompanying the museum photo: Studio 44 2014 Client Studio 44 St Petersburg Foundation for Investment Projects (FISP) erofusha Tuesday-Saturday: 1030 h - 1800 h Sunday: 1030 h - 1700 h Closed Mondays http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 7
photo: Tsvetnoy Central Market photo: Chris Gascoigne Tsvetnoy Central Market Tsvetnoy boulevard 15c1 127051 Moscow http://wwwtsvetnoycom The architectural innovation and geometry of the new building, designed by Moscow-based architectural studio Project Meganom Interiors by HMKM, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and DPA Tsvetnoy Central Market (Tsvetnoy) is a new retail development in the centre of Moscow; 2km north of the Kremlin Located on Tsvetnoy Boulevard between two of the city's famous ring roads the Boulevard and the Garden Ring - the modern retail building is adjacent to Old Moscow Circus, one of the oldest circuses in, and Tsvetnoy Bulvar metro station photo: Evgeniy Shchetinkin Floor area/size 2011 36522 m² Client Project Meganom Rose Group robot_gort Mon - Sat: 10:00 h - 22:00 h Sun: 11:00 h - 22:00 h http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 8
photo: Evgeniy Shchetinkin photo: Alexandr Grafov Arthouse Tessinsky lane 2-6/19 101000 moscow http://statedevelopmentru/en/projects/arthouse Arthouse is a residential complex which has laid the guidelines for the development of an entire municipal district It is situated on Serebryanicheskaya embankment, 15 km from the Kremlin, on the site where the famous artisans' settlements once were This historical continuity is faithfully preserved - for it is precisely here, in the Syromyatniki district, that a new creative class cluster is emerging Arthouse has become a mini model for the development of this district Its dark-brown brick façade and the pseudo-rusty metallic elements of the landscape design are reminiscent of the industrial architecture dominating the turn of XX century The interiors pattern is dominated by Loft-style, so popular with the creative class the world over photo: Alexandr Grafov 2012 Client Sergey Skuratov State Development robot_gort http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 9
photo: saint-petersburgcom photo: Karl Bulla Eliseyev Emporium Nevsky Av 56 191011 St Petersburg Completed in 1903, it shared many characteristic with the Singer Company Building It also had a metal frame, allowing most of the facades to be taken up with windows, and was also decorated with weathered bronze statuary by Estonian sculpture Amandus Heinrich Adamson Both buildings were strongly criticized in many quarters for their vulgarity and the lack of deference to their historical surroundings The ground floor of the building was divided into three retail halls, all featuring sumptuous glass and bronze decoration, while the first floor housed a restaurant and a theatre While critics may have been ambivalent about the building, Petersburgers soon grew to love it, and continued to call it the Eliseyev Emporium long after the Bolshevik government had nationalized it and renamed it Gastronom No 1 photo: Alex Florstein 1903 Main designer, Artist Client Gavriil Baranovskiy Amandus Adamson Elisseeff Brothers erofusha http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 10
photo: unknown photo: saint-petersburgcom Former German Embassy Building Isaakievskaya Sq 11 190000 St Petersburg German Embassy Building, a monument of Neoclassical architecture In the 1740s, a two-story stone building was constructed on this site, which belonged to Court Jeweller KhG Hebelt (1760s - 1802) In 1815-20, architect VP Stasov rebuilt the house in the Empire style Its facade was designed in 1870-71, in the spirit of Eclecticism In 1873, the house was bought by the German Embassy, which had some of its interiors redecorated by architect RB Bernhard In 1911-13, the building was totally rebuilt in the Neoclassicist style according to plans by German architect P Berens The monumental faced of the three-story building is made of dark red granite; the frontispiece is finished with columns, and the wings of the building are decorated with pilasters The construction manager was architect Mies van der Rohe, and sculptor E Enke created the Dioskuroi (the sons of Zeus) sculptural group on the tympanum photo: unknown 1913 Main designer, Client Peter Behrens Ludwig Mies van der Rohe German Empire erofusha On leaving the Admiralteyskaya metro, turn right then right again down Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa When you get to Isaakievskaya Ploschad (St Isaac's Square), you will see the building slightly to your right across the gardens http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 11
photo: Wowhaus photo: Wowhaus Krymskaya embankment Krymskaya embankment 119049 Moscow A once unappealing Krymskaya embankment, only recently separated from the Muzeon park and the Central House of Artists, has been transformed beyond recognition: what once was a road has turned into a lane for pedestrians and bicycles Fountains have been set up, wave-shaped artist pavilions have replaced a chaotic exhibition area and small hills with benches scattered about have become part of the landscape park thus extending a green strip from Gorky park on the other side of the Krymsky bridge The objective was to turn a quiet four-lane road into a new city landmark, thereby bringing life to the deserted area of Muzeon park between the Central House of Artists and the Moskva river The solution was to link the Krymskaya embankment to a 10 km pedestrian and cycling route that starts at Vorobievy gori and to replace the road with a landscape park with distinct transit and sport features while preserving the artists' exhibition zone photo: Yuri Brazjnikov Floor area/size 2013 45000 m² Wowhaus robot_gort http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 12
photo: Mikhail Erofeev photo: Mikhail Erofeev Kirovsky District Soviet Stachek Avenue 18 198095 St Petersburg One of the top examples of Leningrad Avant-garde style, the building is a true showpiece of creative individuality of brilliant architect Noi Trotsky who won the contest to complete the project The original composition has powerful dynamics and energy The building jumps into the eye with its affective silhouette and intense antagonism of horizontal and vertical lines and the collision of rigid rectangular and soft rounded sections The seemingly infinite glazing strips sound like a hymn to the tape-type windows The building of Kirovsky District Soviet was the first building of this type The building housed district authorities, cultural establishments, a bank, a post office, and a large assembly hall Various functions were stressed by the ramified asymmetric structure of the building photo: Mikhail Erofeev 1935 Noi Trotsky erofusha http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 13
photo: Mikhail Erofeev Soviet elite housing Karpovka River Embankment 13 197022 St Petersburg The building served as a dwelling for Soviet elite It had comfortable apartments of "improved" type, from three to six rooms, some at two levels This building is one of Eugeny Levinson's and Igor Fomin's best projects, a brilliant example of late Constructivism has pronounced dynamic expressiveness and refined forms It's a great example of late stage of the style, filled with the spirit of Expressionism and a hint of Art Deco A powerful turn of the central part of the building was constrained by static lateral wings with horizontal loggias at end faces All the facades were covered with cement plaster with marble crumbs, and decorated to look like stone blocks This decorative approach demonstrated that late Constructivism was ready to use Classicism elements It was a symptom of a return to development of the Classicism language photo: Mikhail Erofeev 1935 Main designer, Eugeny Levinson Igor Fomin erofusha http://wwwmimoaeu/users/kamalmeida/guides// 14