Herzog & de Meuron JV Vogt   Russia   Several historic maps were overlapped to reveal the gradual changes of the site’s identity and geometry. The new park retraces the former shoreline of the Neva River, reorganizes urban flows, integrates into the city, and connects green public spaces

AB Chvoya Karavan   Russia   The abundant vegetation and overlapping layers of meadows, bridges, and paths configure a variety of natural spaces that provide a gradual transition from the city, maximizing the site’s contemporary potential and bringing together the history and th

West 8 Studio 44    Russia   The proposal for the park shows a ‘romantic garden’ with a topography of undulating hills that offer visitors beautiful views across the water and the city beyond. A series of grottos underneath bring a rich diversity of atmospheres to the site. To a

Mecanoo   Russia   The Delft-based firm Mecanoo, headed by Francine Houben, has won the competition of masterplans for an educational campus on the shores of Lake Senezh, in the Russian town of Solnechnogorsk. Lecture halls, auditoriums, a library, and apartments are l

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Russia   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

Sidereal   Russia   The development of the different types of buildings is generated from a single structural module, which also defines the uses, of 3.6m x 3.6m. This 12.96m² room is repeated giving rise to apartments of varied sizes. The brief proposes using local woo

Raúl Gutiérrez Salgado   Russia   Instead of offering three specific floor plan types, the project proposes a flexible system in which the prototypes share a unique catalogue of apartments and can be interconnected to obtain almost infinite urban configurations... [+]

Pedro Pitarch   Russia   The proposal inserts in the blocks a series of ‘social capsules’ containing specific public programs. This hybridization blurs the boundaries between domestic and public programs, leading to an enhanced type of architecture and living... [+]

51N4E OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Russia   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

Herzog & de Meuron   Russia   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

Herzog & de Meuron   Russia   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... [+]

While the architecture, cinema, or the graphic arts of the Russian avant-gardes have been studied in great detail, other disciplines such as interior design or furniture design are still largely unknown, as is the history of their evolution from the

A total of 44 works selected from the collections of the Russian State Museum of St. Petersburg – 16 of them never shown before in Spain – have been included in the monographic exhibition on Kazimir Malevich in the Russian Museum of Málaga. The exhib

The Reina Sofía Museum offers a tour of the Russian avant-garde art produced during the heyday of Dada – between World War I and Lenin’s death –, exploring the features both movements share, such as the negation of classical art, the innovative fusio

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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The centenary of the Russian Revolution has brought on the inevitable deluge of publications, but perhaps none as exceptional as The House of Government. Written by Yuri Slezkine, a historian born and educated in Russia who emigrated to the United St

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

With a ceremony not lacking in copious fireworks and dazzling performances, as the canon for big festivities rules, on 7 February the Winter Olympics opened in the Russian city of Sochi, a popular tourist center located on the Black Sea coast, culmin

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

Francisco de Gracia   La exposición ‘La Caballería Roja’ en La Casa Encendida de Madrid describe la obra proteica y fértil producida en Rusia por los movimientos de vanguardia a lo largo de las convulsas primeras tres décadas del régimen soviético.

Owen Hatherley   Londres  2015  
Penguin    - 624 Pages 

Yuri Slezkine   A Saga of Russian Revolution

Dmitry S. Khmelnitsky   Architectural Fantasies in Russian Constructivism

Oliva Mar Rubio   La experiencia de la totalidad

Philipp Meuser   Architektur and Design der Gegenwart