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Developers: but we shall make it all beautiful, here is the render. Muscovites: but we cannot take your word for it, for in the planning documentation the volumes of your business centre differ from those you have announced by more than a factor of two.
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
However softly the developers with a stake in a billion-rouble project may lay the bedding, the bed turns out rather hard. Will you feel better if, instead of an elite residential block, a new Patriarch's Ponds or the Pit so idly invoked by the head of the
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
It turns out that, besides building yet another office Palmyra of loot and woe in the protected zone on Ivanovskaya Hill, they also plan to remove all the fences and make the territory barrier-free (really?), to protect the century-old poplars from the Zhilishchnik state budgetary institution, even to
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Humour
Another representative of the developer, Yaroslav Katsuba, head of the management company, explains what an ornament to the district their splendid building will be. Touching digressions are not avoided: “We managed to find a descendant of Ludwig Knoop, Andrea Knoop. She is a descendant of Knoop through her husband; her
Archaeology · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · People
Architect Alexey Ginzburg speaks of noble plans for the scientific restoration of buildings on Kolpachny Lane. He adds that he, too, would like the district not to lose its identity. Over the awkward matters, such as the eighteen-metre piles that will reach the cultural layer of the eighth century,
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society
The Museum of Architecture has provided a venue for a debate on the demolition and construction of buildings in the historic zone of Ivanovskaya Gorka in Moscow. The background is as follows. On Kolpachny Lane, within a protected zone, a five-storey business centre is planned, complete with glazed attic,
Coming Up · Books · Museums · Saint Petersburg
In the Korf Hall of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, at 18 Sadovaya Street, an intriguing exhibition, "Legends of the NLR: Rossica. Marking the 170th Anniversary of the Founding of the Collection", is now open, presenting works by foreigners about Russia from the 18th to
Coming Up · Architecture · Moscow · People
Until the end of October the Lumière Brothers Centre for Photography is hosting a jubilee exhibition of the architectural photographer Naum Granovsky, bringing together photographs of Moscow from the 1920s to the era of Soviet modernism. The book «Naum Granovsky 1920-1980» is also on sale there.
Coming Up · Museums · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
TikTok has launched a series of virtual tours of Russian museums together with the Kultura.RF project. On Wednesdays and Saturdays one can join a virtual tour in the portal's official account, culturno, of the permanent displays and exhibitions of the country's leading museums. For now,
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Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
I am simply horrified: under the guise of "restoration", the necropolis of the Novodevichy Convent has been literally destroyed. See for yourselves. Levelling hundreds of burials to the ground and dismantling monuments, gravestones and the remains of crypts is now what passes for restoring a cemetery. If any
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