Built between 1904 and 1908 in Bálchug (Bolotny óstrov), a river island in the heart of Moscow, GES-2 was a power station. The old plant is now a space conceived as an experience of going from visual to performing arts, via a welcoming civic space. T
The Garage, Moscow’s most important contemporary art center, has unveiled the Japanese firm SANAA’s scheme to expand its facilities: the reconstruction of the Hexagon, a ruined 1920s construction beside the museum in Gorky Park. The Garage, which ope
Beside the Moskva River and a minute’s walk from the Kremlin and Red Square, the Zaryadye was an over 50,000-square-meter urban void between Moscow’s tourist zone and the Kitay-Gorod business district. This area, inhabited in the past, has a troubled
On a former airfield, the new NCCA claims its place within its urban context, right by a shopping center and a park, creating a shared space with a giant screen – black at day but brightly lit at night –, where artists and spectators are active parti
Skolkovo is the Russian government initiative for a new urban community at the 3rd ring of Moscow, 17 km west from the Kremlin. Built ex nihilo, the aim of Skolkovo is to create a globally reputed center for innovative technology. The original master
The project to revitalize the factory buildings follows a double strategy of renovation and extension. The protected structures are recovered and assigned new uses, and the rest is cleared to create a new green area, an urban park by the river... [+]
Located in Moscow, the GES-2 is a magnificent historical power station built between 1904 and 1908. The project consists in the reconversion of this building in a space conceived as a very articulated experience going from visual arts to performing a
Skolkovo is the Russian government initiative for a new urban community at the 3rd ring of Moscow, 17 km west from the Kremlin. Built ex nihilo, the aim of Skolkovo is to create a globally reputed center for innovative technology. The original master
The historical polychromy of the city’s buildings inspires the large ceramic-lined openings in the white facades. The residential development consists of four ‘Spatial Ribbons’ that are all 15 meters deep and zigzag to define the public space... [+]
El Museo Garage en Moscú da cuenta del interés de Koolhaas por el patrimonio, y sugiere un modo desacomplejado de trabajar con las ruinas de la arquitectura moderna.
The center’s exhibition programme is structured vertically by a series of intertwined silos which are connected horizontally by an interior street overlooking the park and the city, and cut by screens for audiovisual installations.
A network of paths, drawn from the superposition of the traces of the buildings that have occupied the plot over the last centuries, defines more than 750 gardens with different shapes, sizes and programs, which vary during the year.
Giving a prominent role to the historic city and to the views, the park is organized in terraces and the buildings meld into the slope in order to minimize their impact. The inclusion of a great variety of species guarantees biodiversity.
Based on the concept of wild urbanism, which integrates the built and the natural in hybrid landscapes, four types of Russian biomes exist in the park, organized in terraces descending from northeast to southwest: tundra, steppe, forest and wetland.
Three years after its foundation, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture moves its location from the semi-industrial neighborhood in the north of Moscow to one of the city’s best known public spaces, Gorky Park; from the former bus garage designe
In November 1929, when Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov and his family moved from a communal flat to the experimental house he had designed and built on a small street named Krivoarbatsky, little did he know that, removing 1949 and 1950, he would spen
El proyecto busca integrar en un solo edificio el entramado de la ciudad con los nuevos crecimientos en altura. La torre aloja programa residencial mientras la pieza horizontal, que se separa del suelo para liberar espacio público, alberga las salas
Situada en Moscow City —un antiguo terreno industrial reconvertido en centro de negocios—, la torre cuenta con 46 pisos de planta cuadrada girados respecto a su eje central para conformar un volumen exterior que evoca las cúpulas de San Basilio. El e
La torre de 612 metros, que se convertirá en el edificio más alto de Europa, albergará apartamentos, un hotel, oficinas y espacio de ocio. Se apuesta por un volumen piramidal de planta triangular para mejorar la estabilidad y reducir la estructura. E
Con 2,5 millones de metros cuadrados y 450 metros de altura, el edificio más grande del mundo se plantea como una ciudad dentro de la ciudad, en la que se alojan museos, teatros, cines, oficinas, tiendas, un colegio, 3.000 habitaciones de hotel y 900
The artist Gregory Orekhov has just completed his latest work, Nowhere, in Moscow’s Malecvich Park. A red carpet made of polypropylene stretches 250 meters across a forest. The geometric abstraction keeps the preexisting reality intact. “Here, perspe
The Basel firm Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its new residential project, part of the plan to refurbish the Badaevskiy brewery, abandoned for decades along the banks of the Moscow River. Located in the center of the Russian capital, the two apa
The Russia of today is no place for contemporary art. As during the decades of the USSR, it is the prerogative of the State to preserve and disseminate knowledge about creations of the past, but few such initiatives are taken for works of the present
Promoted by the oligarch and collector Roman Abramovich and directed by his wife, Daria Zhukova, the Iris Foundation recently announced the beginning of construction of the new location of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow’s most inf
Taken in those borderline areas between urban and rural land, in the unique landscape that grows between Moscow and its suburbs, the images of ‘Pastoral’ by Alexander Gronsky, shot between 2008 and 2012, reflect the artist’s fascination with the edge
OMA construirá en el Parque Gorki de Moscú —junto con el estudio local Form Bureau— un nuevo espacio para el Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, el más importante centro de arte contemporáneo de la ciudad, y cuya sede está en el Bakhmetevsky Bus
El futuro campus de Skolkovo, a dieciséis kilómetros de Moscú, contará con un plan director diseñado por los suizos Jacques Herzog y Pierre de Meuron, en el cual se contempla la creación de un centro científico, financiero, residencial y educativo or
