Architecture styles on the world map

But I built my scheme in a circle. The map is divided into 7 political concepts, which, however, hide clear theses: context, materials, form, etc. For quick understanding, we have indicated our decoding under each direction.

The methodology of the map is simple: the brightest representatives of a particular direction are located on the periphery of the circle. Bureaus that are closer to the center borrow more from other areas. Among the 181 architects there are almost no world names. The author deliberately assembled young teams that were formed precisely in the new, post-crisis time.

Along with the map below, we give a description of all directions and the opinion of the architects themselves about how accurately Alejandro Zaera Polo understood their work.

Activists

Work directly with the population

What stands out: Followers of the ideas of Alejandro Aravena. They do social projects where benefits to the local community come to the fore. They involve the population in the work, conduct campaigns to raise money for the implementation of projects.

The direction is gaining particular popularity in last years. The UK's main art award, the Turner Prize 2015, was given to Assemble, which, together with local residents, reconstructed 10 houses in the Liverpool area.

Populists

In Soviet times they would have been called formalists

What makes them stand out?: Deliberately simplifying language to better communicate ideas to the public. The form boils down to a bright, witty concept that is presented through diagrams and diagrams. And the approach works: it was Bjarke Ingels who was the only architect included in the list of the 100 most influential people on the planet in 2016.

New historicists

Pragmatists passionate about context

What makes them stand out?: Young generation inspired by David Chipperfield. They promote a pragmatic approach with strict geometry of forms, and work a lot in the context of the city. They rework the ideas of modernism, but also oppose themselves to the modern fashion of computer algorithms.

Skeptics

Philosophers with a conceptual approach

What makes them stand out?: Easily distinguished by pastel-colored graphics with axonometric views and collages. They are critical of modern commercial architecture, therefore they especially appreciate postmodernism and paper architects of the 20th century. Hence the bright colors, artificial materials, philosophical interpretation of projects.

What makes them stand out?: Natural materials are placed at the center of architecture, although each fundamentalist interprets the idea in his own way. For Vietnamese Vo Trong Nghia, the main thing is trees and landscaping. Ensamble Studio especially appreciates the tactile properties of stone. Gabinete Arquitectura comes up with new designs from traditional materials: at the XV Biennale in Venice, the bureau received the Golden Lion for.

Cosmopolitans

Modern rationalists

What makes them stand out?: Open opponents of the “Bilbao effect”, when huge budgets are spent just for the sake of the uniform and its further maintenance. They build their projects on analysis and selection of the most effective solutions. One of the main reference points is the French Lacaton & Vassal, who in Bordeaux saved houses from demolition and came up with the idea.

The author of the map also identifies two additional directions. Carlo Ratti in the MIT laboratory combines rationality and computer technology. Bureaus like AMUNT see rationalism in simplified aesthetics and pronounced minimalism.

Technological utopians

Dealing with robots and cities of the future

What makes them stand out?: The generation that grew up on the ideas of parametricism. But they are not borrowing the language of Zaha Hadid, but are working on concepts at the intersection of robotics and speculative architecture. Technologists are engaged in scientific research, so there are many teachers among them. Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Köchler run their laboratory in Zurich, Achim Menges and his students are building pavilions in Stuttgart, Mark Fornes teaches at Harvard with Patrick Schumacher.

How did the architects themselves react?

35% accurately hit or indicated a place close to the author’s point of view.

20% of architects noted themselves in other sectors and closer to the center.

10% chose the completely opposite direction.

Activists and Cosmopolitans: the most popular directions from the answers.

Utopians and Pragmatists: these sectors were not on the map, but 5% defined themselves this way.

Some architects said that each partner has his own position in the bureau, so they need to be placed in several sectors at once.

The author also acknowledges the latter argument. In the future, Alejandro plans to develop the idea and experiment with other techniques, data and categories. The current version 0.1 was published in the 187th issue of El Croquis magazine. The complete essay is also sold separately at

21 interactive Building Age Maps in cities of Europe, America, Ukraine and Russia.

Interactive maps showing the age of buildings in a country or city, the so-called Building Age Maps, appeared not so long ago: the boom in their creation occurred in 2013. It all started in Amsterdam. The map developed for this city quickly grew to the scale of an entire country and today covers the whole of Holland; and there are two such cards. In the US, Portland was the first. The idea of ​​putting the addresses and construction dates of all houses on a map of his hometown was proposed by a young GitHub employee, Justin Palmer. He also realized his plan, so much so that the Portland map became a model and inspiration for many subsequent developments. The world's largest cities took up the baton quickly and willingly: Brooklyn, and a little later the whole of New York, Barcelona. Just last year, similar maps were developed for London and Paris. The Moscow map is already fully operational, St. Petersburg is at the filling stage.

Interactive maps of the age of buildings allow you to clearly trace the development of the city, identify characteristic features in its structure, and understand the morphology. In addition, the cards have a very diverse design. Buildings painted in bright colors, on the scale of a city map, turn into an artistic canvas - akin to Chagall's stained glass windows and mosaics.

We present a selection of the most interesting cards:

Europe

Netherlands-1, 2013

Ljubljana, 2013

Development: Marko Plahuta
Map data: TileMill
Data: Cadastre of Slovenia (GURS)

A slightly different approach to creating an interactive map is demonstrated by the resource developed by Marko Plahuta for his hometown of Ljubljana. He also made a map indicating the dates of construction of buildings. Each individual time period is highlighted in its own color. What differs from other similar maps is the linear graph compiled by the author, which clearly shows the years of active construction and, conversely, the construction decline. The graph shows serious spikes and drops. The author connects this with historical events. Thus, the construction activity of 1899 is explained by the devastating earthquake that occurred in the city four years earlier. Many buildings appeared after the world wars: in 1919 after the First World War, and in 1949 after the Second.

In addition to the map, Plahuta made a video showing how the city grew from 1500 to 2013.

Reykjavik, 2013

Development: Matt Riggott
Map data: OpenStreetMap
Data: Cadastre, Icelandic Register

The map of Reykjavik is one of the most comprehensive. Thanks to the fact that the author used several open sources of information at once, it was possible to visualize data about each house in the capital of Iceland. As on other similar maps, the period of construction is indicated by color: the darker the color of the building on the map, the older it is. The color scheme of the Reykjavik map looks very restrained. It is possible to hover over a building to find out its age and location. However, you cannot “turn off” certain construction periods.

North America

Portland: One City Age, 2013

Development: Justin Palmer
Map data: TileMill, MapBox
Data: Portland Archives

An interactive map of Portland, a city located in Oregon, was developed by a young GitHub employee, Justin Palmer. It was based on public archival data from Portland, which describes more than half a million city buildings built over different periods of time. Palmer painted 544,033 buildings in specific bright colors so that it was easy to see how the old neighborhoods merged with the new ones. The aquamarine buildings date from the 1890s, the purple neighborhoods from the 1950s, and the hot pink developments from the 1970s. The result is a beautiful picture, which, meanwhile, allows you to analyze the structure of the city. The map, however, does not have the ability to disable a particular period or find out details about an individual building.

Today, the map covers not only Portland, but also nearby cities such as Beaverton, Gresham and others. It was this map that inspired most developers and programmers to create similar maps for their city.

New York, 2013

Development: Brandon Liu
Map data: PLUTO, OpenStreetMap, TileMill, MapBox.
Data: nyc.gov

One of the most detailed maps created by 24-year-old programmer from San Francisco Brandon Liu. His map of New York City displays building age data for the five boroughs of the metropolitan area - Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. Information is available on more than a million buildings (1,053,713). Neon-luminescent colors, selected by the author to visually separate different construction eras, together with the clear construction of streets, blocks and houses, create a very futuristic image. At the same time, color helps analyze the urban fabric. Thus, shades of lilac define the buildings of the 1830s, blue – buildings built at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, and yellow – the mid-1990s. Considering that New York is a fairly young city relative to European capitals, information about buildings on the map begins from 1820-1830, and, as the map shows, few buildings from the early 19th century have survived in the city.

By maximizing the scale, you can see individual blocks and houses in detail; When you hover over a building, data about the construction date and the exact location of the house becomes available. In this way, you can discover little-known historical buildings of New York: for example, old wooden houses on Hicks Street, sandwiched among a row of modern buildings. The earliest buildings in New York are concentrated on Willow Street and nearby streets, including one of oldest houses, built in 1824.

In the description of the map, the developers make a reservation that not all dates may be reliable: some are approximate or inaccurate. For example, the map says that the Natural History Museum was built in 1995, whereas it is known that this happened much earlier.

Brooklyn: Past and Present, 2013

Development: Thomas Rhiel
Map data: PLUTO data set, NYCityMap, OpenStreetMap, MapBox
Data: New York City Department of City Planning

Map of Brooklyn appeared before the cards New York itself. It was developed by Thomas Rhiel, a programmer and resident of Brooklyn. As a basis, he took data from the New York Department of City Planning published in the public domain in the spring of 2013, where even the smallest buildings in the city were carefully described. The interactive map created shows each building in Brooklyn in the correct color, with the year it was built coded. Color traditionally carries information about the time of construction: blue and green indicate the oldest houses, yellow serves to highlight buildings from the turn of the century, light red indicates the mid-twentieth century, and dark red represents modern houses. It's easy to see that, say, the area west of Prospect Park contains mostly townhouses, designated yellow, i.e. built in 1900 and 1930. On the east side of the park, a tiny blue dot marks the historic home of Continental Army Lieutenant Peter Leforts, built in 1783.

Chicago, 2013

Development: Shaun Jacobsen, Transitized
Map Data: MapBox and TileMill
Data: City of Chicago Open Data

The developer of the Chicago map is Shaun Jacobsen, a master's student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Using public data from the city of Chicago, he described almost every house, assigning information about the date and place of construction. In total, there are five categories characterizing construction eras: XIX century, 1900-1950, 1950-2000, 2000 - present. Moreover, each period can be disabled or viewed separately from the others. Zooming allows you to see all the details. Geolocation determines the user's location.

Los Angeles, 2015

Development: Omar Ureta
OpenStreetMap
Data: LA County Open Data and GIS

The Los Angeles map gives you the opportunity to look at the dense development of the city as a whole, or to take a closer look at the details. Information about the construction date and address of each house is also available here. The color scheme is reminiscent of a map of Portland, and the developers do not hide that they were inspired by it. The bright blue color highlights the buildings of the first half of the twentieth century (Mid-City, Exposition Park), the purple hue is responsible for the buildings of the 1950s (Granada Hills). Each period can be viewed separately. In addition, there is a stopwatch button, after pressing which an animation of the gradual development of the city is shown - from 1909 to the present day.

Vancouver, 2014

Development: Ekaterina Aristova
Hosting: loveyourmap
Data: Vancouver Open Directory, Cadastre and Tax Services

Ekaterina Aristova, a graduate of the University of Waterloo, created an interactive map of Vancouver using publicly available data about the city. Each color on the map represents one decade in which the buildings were constructed. Those houses whose age remains unknown are highlighted in grey. Aristova points out that the map is still under development. There is no pop-up information about the addresses of the houses yet. However, geolocation is available.

Edmonton, 2016

Development: hometribe.ca
Map data: Mapbox, OpenStreetMap
Data: Edmonton Open Data Catalog

The map of the Canadian city of Edmonton is one of the most recent. Age and address are displayed on hover. It is possible to view selected construction periods separately. If you press the buttons in chronological order, you can trace how the city has grown over the 20th and 21st centuries.

Edmonton-2, 2016

Development: Rickard Hansen
Map data: Mapbox, OpenStreetMap
Data: Edmonton Open Data Catalog, GIS

If the previous map offers certain research knowledge, here the history of the city's development is divided into decades, following one after another and marked with its given color. There is no information about individual buildings.

Russia and Ukraine

Moscow: “Mercator”, 2013

Development: Konstantin Varik, Mercator company
Consultant: Andrey Skvortsov
Base: OpenStreetMap
Data: Housing and communal services reform and the Moscow Government

Six main stages of development are identified: pre-revolutionary Russia (1491-1917), the USSR under the Bolsheviks and Stalin (1918-1953), the time of reforms of Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964), Brezhnev (1964-1982), Chernenko, Andropov, Gorbachev (1982- 1991) and the last stage - the era of the construction boom under Luzhkov (1991-2009).

Each period is indicated by color; periods can be turned on and off. When you hover your cursor over a fragment of the map, information appears with the exact address and year of construction of the buildings. A graph has also been created where you can see how many houses were built per year in a given period.

Electronic Atlas of Moscow, 2013

Development: Geocenter-Consulting company
Design: Artemy Lebedev Studio
Customer: Department of Information Technologies of Moscow

It reflects not only the dates of construction of a building, but also 219 thematic layers with information about 280 thousand objects. The map covers 12 administrative districts, 125 districts and 21 settlements. This resource with details up to the house, displaying satellite images and panoramas shows the administrative division of the city, provides statistics on individual territories, information about government institutions in Moscow, including contact information and the ability to make online appointments with specialists, public transport, traffic jams. Electronic card contains all data about government facilities, parks, pedestrian areas, metro stations, parking lots, shops. Using the atlas, you can measure the distance between objects or build the most accurate route.

The “Territories” section contains information about architectural monuments, cultural heritage sites and protected zones. When you zoom in, you can use one click to find out information about the building of interest - the status of the object, the exact address, construction time, information about architects and engineers, etc.

Artemy Lebedev Studio worked on the design of the atlas. For the design of maps working in the “scheme” and “hybrid” modes, traditional and recognizable color symbols of parks, reservoirs and buildings were chosen. As you get closer, the gamma becomes more saturated. In addition to the website available mobile app, created on the basis of the “Electronic Atlas of Moscow”.

Retrospective of St. Petersburg, 2015

Development: Pavel Suvorov
Resource: OpenStreetMap

Pavel Suvorov is a student at ITMO University, winner of Open Data Hackathon 2014 and 2015. Maps were created on the CartoDB platform. Some of the data is geocoded, some is entered manually. The project is called “Retrospective of the urban development of St. Petersburg.” It includes three cards. With their help, you can find out the years of construction of buildings of interest, trace how and in what quantity St. Petersburg was built up in certain historical periods, and also analyze which architectural style dominates in the city. Let's say the map highlights constructivist and modern quarters, and indicates classicist and Soviet buildings. True, so far only one Petrograd district of the city has been studied in detail. But in the near future it is planned to cover its entire territory.

An interactive map of Nizhny Novgorod was developed by cartographer and activist Dmitry Volkov. Houses on the map are marked in different colors depending on the time of construction. When you hover the cursor, information appears with the address, age and number of floors. All buildings are divided into nine categories and each is painted in its own color. The map shows what percentage is occupied by buildings that appeared at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. They are indicated in orange and very few of them have survived. In the central part of Nizhny Novgorod there are significantly more buildings dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. Modern houses built already in the 2000s are also indicated on the map - in bright blue. While the card is not completely filled and works intermittently.

Kyiv, 2014

Development: Vadim Sklyarov and Vlad Gerasimenko, portal mapbuilders.org
Map data: OpenStreetMap
Data: Real estate agencies

The map of Kyiv was developed based on information from real estate websites and advertisements for the purchase and rental of real estate. As the developers themselves explain, they were unable to obtain data from the city administration and the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of Kyiv. Therefore, out of 80 thousand buildings indicated on the city map in OpenStreetMap, only about 8 thousand residential buildings could be described. However, eleven periods are highlighted on the map. The development of the city since 1915 is examined in detail. When you click on an individual building, information with the exact address and year of construction is displayed. The development team plans to gradually fill out the map of Kyiv and compile similar interactive maps for all cities of Ukraine.

Lviv, 2015

Development: Intetics team
Map data, etc.: OpenStreetMap, open-source JavaScript, Leaflet
Data: Lviv City Council

The map displays data on the age of most buildings in Lviv. When you hover over a building in top panel The map shows the exact year of construction, as well as the address. The dark red color highlights the buildings that appeared in the city before 1800. The map shows that few such buildings have survived in Lviv. The lighter the shade of red becomes, the later the construction period the building belongs to. And even in the absence of a function to turn off individual periods of time, one can notice the predominance of historical houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries in the city center, while Soviet and modern buildings dominate on the outskirts. The latter are indicated in white.

The origins of modern classical architecture go back to the twenties of the last century, when the West turned to the traditional forms of the world architectural heritage, and at the same time, trends arose towards modernizing architecture to resemble antiquity. On this moment the very concept of “classic” in architecture is somewhat blurry, but modern architects rely in their work precisely on the classical basis, successfully combining it with the trends of today.

Examples of a wide variety of styles can be seen on the map from the Archilovers project, where architects from all over the world have gathered. Social project already has more than 500,000 members, among whom you can find famous designers, architects and planners. Examples of their work, as well as amazing examples of architectural delights, await you on the architectural map of the world.

There are several examples of the harmonious combination of classics and modernity: the Pavilion Hotel, which is part of the Trianon Palace & Spa complex in France, the Sheraton on the Park Hotel in Sydney. The latter is so well located that all the main attractions of the city are in close proximity to it. And while enjoying a swim in the pool at a height of the twenty-second floor, you can simultaneously admire the view of the city and seascapes of Sydney.

If we talk about “modernity” as an architectural style, then we should highlight such trends as minimalism and hi-tech. The main difference between minimalism is the absence of excess, maximum simplification of the very form of the building, rejection of internal structures and facade decorations, restraint in the choice of colors, minimal surface treatment. Any part of the architectural ensemble, even a single niche, carries an exclusively functional load.

High-tech is similar to minimalism, but, unlike it, it involves the presence of chrome-plated metal structures and glass elements. To better imagine this style, we can give a famous example of it: the Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai. The Burj al-Arab hotel is exclusive in its architectural design, it was built in the shape of a sail on an artificially created island 280 meters from the coast, its height is 321 meters, this building is considered one of the most expensive projects in the world. The architects, who used the most advanced technologies, managed to make the multi-storey building truly unique. During the construction of this miracle sail, a lot of know-how was used that had not been used anywhere until that moment. The façade of the building is lined with double heavy-duty glass coated with Teflon.

Among the modern styles, Art Deco should be mentioned. This style originated in America during the Great Depression and was subsequently forgotten for many years. However, today it is gaining forgotten popularity. The most successful example of “Art Deco” is Empire building State Building in New York. This style is characterized by a mixture of elements from other styles such as Egyptian, industrial and oriental. The building extends one hundred and two floors into the sky, the façade is made of powerful gray stone and decorated with vertical strips of stainless steel, while the upper floors have three projections. The hall inside the building is decorated with elegant panels depicting the seven wonders of the world. On the upper floors there are large observation decks that offer amazing views of the city, especially at night. At the Empire State Building. The Guinness World Records Hall is located. This building is rightfully considered one of the landmarks of New York.

Art Deco architecture also includes the famous Art Deco district in Miami Beach. Perhaps this particular area is the most striking example of Art Deco in the United States. Here you can find a huge number of hotels built in the era of the twenties and thirties of the last century. Rising upward, these buildings have rounded corners and geometrically correct patterns characteristic of their style. The famous villa of the Italian couturier Gianni Versace, on the steps of which he was killed, is also located here.

Modern architecture is also presented in other styles - oriental and exotic. Among these styles, the pseudo-Japanese direction should be highlighted, in which country houses, restaurants, and cafes are often built. Private houses built in this style are very comfortable for living, as they are laconically designed, and when creating them, the architects took into account the connection with nature and the landscape.
Examples of these and other works can be seen on the map for architects.

Attractions

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Most of the buildings in Moscow were built with a good sense of taste and understanding of the needs of the time. The improvisational freedom of the sculptor, who wants to express his own ideas about modern architecture as fully as possible, fills the buildings with originality and true artistry, elevating them to the rank of works of art. Our guide includes fifteen unusual houses, created in different historical eras and striking in their originality. These exclusive architectural buildings attract the attention not only of tourists, but also of Moscow residents themselves, who do not have time to observe the changing appearance of the capital.

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On the shore of Prechistenskaya embankment stands a fabulous house in the Art Nouveau style. Created according to the drawings of engineer Pyotr Pertsov and artist Sergei Malyutin in 1905–1907, the house initially served as an income house - as usual, apartments were rented to residents, and attics to artists. The voluminous, asymmetrical building with conical roofs is faced with red brick, and fairy tale characters adorn its façade - for example, a chimney is made in the shape of a wise owl, and the balconies are supported by mysterious dragons. The windows are decorated with ancient Russian decor: celestial spheres and animals lined with majolica mosaics - the sun, stars, the Sirin bird, a bear, a peacock, a rooster - add a folkloric flavor to the appearance of the building. Animal patterns intertwine with plant patterns, awakening the imagination and instantly transporting them to the pages of Russian epics. Malyutin is the author of the Russian nesting doll and, working on the project of Pertsova’s house, he felt and expressed the original Russian spirit, weaving it into the Western European tradition. The interior decoration was also created according to the artist’s drawings and thought out to the smallest detail: from the carved decorations of the staircase railings to the doors of the apartments. For four years, the Bat Theater was located here, where Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vasily Kachalov, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Olga Knipper-Chekhova performed. Later, a creative salon was opened in this building, where such famous people as Vera Kholodnaya and Alexander Vertinsky came to perform. Nowadays, state institutions are located in Pertsova’s house, but the spirit of bureaucracy cannot overcome the feeling of creative freedom inherent in this building.

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Landmark, Landmark

The white-stone palace with massive carved balconies belonged to the merchant Arseny Morozov, obsessed with the passionate idea of ​​writing his name in history. Having visited Italy and Portugal, he wanted to erect a mansion in the Moorish style, and in 1894 he realized his idea with the help of architect Viktor Mazyrin. Morozov himself painted decorative elements - shells and intricate swirling patterns. The asymmetrical horseshoe-shaped building combines the influence of various architectural styles: neo-Moorish, Chinese, Italian, Art Nouveau, classicism, romanticism, Empire, Portuguese Manueline style. A hanging garden was laid out above the mansion. The interior is extremely colorful: some rooms are decorated in the Empire style, others - Baroque, Gothic and Oriental influences are also noted in the interior decoration of the building. In the post-revolutionary period, the Morozov House housed a mobile theater and various embassies: Japan. UK, India. Since 2006, after careful restoration, the mansion has been the official reception house of the Government of the Russian Federation.

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Landmark, Theater

The Et Cetera theater belies its name with its appearance alone: ​​there is simply nothing like it in Moscow. Constructed by architect Andrei Bokov in 2005, the building, from a geometric point of view, is a large oval on which stands a rectangle with protruding edges. All this, coupled with the column tower and windows of various heights and shapes, make the theater look like a circus tent. The building surprises with its asymmetry and diversity - from different points of view it looks completely different - as if an actor puts on a mask, instantly transforming from one character to another. The theater, under the direction of Alexander Kalyagin, lives an active life, attracting attention not only with its unusual appearance, but also with excellent performances.

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In the twenty-five-story “House on Chicken Legs” at 184 Mira Avenue, it is not Baba Yaga and her brownie Kuzya who live, but ordinary people. The house, as if floating above the ground, was built in the late 1960s by architects Viktor Andreev and Timofey Zaikin. The balconies located in a checkerboard pattern give the feeling that you can climb up to the roof through the house, like on a cliff with ledges. During the construction of the building, the technique of fastening large panels with special bolts was used for the first time. “The House on Chicken Legs” became one of the first high-rise buildings in Moscow. Inverted-V piles support this enormous building, and balconies soar into the heavens. Previously, there was a student town on this site, a living memory of which is the beautiful poplar park located nearby. The appearance of the house aroused the creative interest of the director of the film “The Mustachioed Nanny,” who filmed one of the episodes in this building. Also, the description of “The House on Chicken Legs” is found on the pages of the popular science fiction novel “Night Watch” by Sergei Lukyanenko.

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Luxury housing is increasingly taking on unusual forms: the eight-story building built in 2007 by Alexey Bavykin is a prime example of this. The highlight of the building lies in the special decoration of the facade: stone columns resemble trees, especially on top of each there is a tub with a plant. A slender line of trees decorates the walls of the building and symbolically hints at the eternity of life. Expensive natural stone was used to decorate the façade, and granite was used for the atrium. The average area of ​​apartments is about 200 sq. m. meters, the ceilings are more than 3 meters high. The infrastructure of the building is well thought out and includes: a swimming pool, a bath complex, and a herbal bar. The bright atrium, penthouse, large balconies, terrace and green spaces give the feeling of a serene country life, far from the bustle of the city.

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Bryusov lane, 19, Moscow

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In the late 90s, Sergei Tkachenko’s workshop was entrusted with the design of a maternity hospital in Bethlehem. It was then that architecture came up with the idea of ​​creating a building in the shape of an egg, acting as a symbol of the origin of life. This non-trivial idea found its real embodiment only in 2002, and it happened not in Palestine, but in Moscow, on Mashkova Street 1/11. Four-story round building with a huge amount The recesses in which the balcony windows are located amaze with their modernist sophistication. The volutes decorating the first floor resemble a Faberge egg stand. The ceiling of the attic that crowns the building is painted from the inside with golden-blue colors in the spirit of the Renaissance.

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Winner of the 2008 House of the Year competition, this twenty-four-story stone sailboat delights Muscovites with its non-trivial architecture. The house is part of the Grand Park complex, designed by Andrey Bokov. There are shops and offices on the first and second floors, and in the building itself there are about 250 apartments with an average area of ​​about 100 square meters. meters. Designed in the shape of a teardrop, the house finds its home on the site of a former runway, so the base of the building is disproportionately narrow in relation to the gigantic size of the building. The “Sail House” is finished with porcelain stoneware, which has the property of maintaining a neat appearance and internal strength for a long time.

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Grizodubova, 2, Moscow

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The exquisite “Openwork House” on Leningradsky Prospekt gives a deceptive impression: appearance speaks of sophistication of taste and an undoubted orientation towards art “for the elite,” but the internal structure and the idea itself were completely different. Architect Andrei Burov, having traveled to the United States, brought the idea of ​​social housing for ordinary citizens. The combination of beauty and convenience became the starting points for the construction of the building. The house was built in the 1936–1940s, and the war made adjustments to the original layout of the building. It was assumed that in the house with small four-meter kitchens there would be: a restaurant (from where food could be brought), a nursery, kindergarten, hairdresser, grocery store. In 1941, bomb shelters appeared in the basements, and 2-3 families were moved into each apartment. The Openwork House, built in the shape of the letter P, has only one entrance, three staircases and two elevators. Huge long corridors and 18 apartments on each floor, starting from the second. Openwork grilles, created according to the drawings of Vladimir Favorsky, protect the loggias from prying eyes. The color of the house resembles marble, but in fact it is moiré - concrete mixed with paint. This house was one of the first to be made from large factory-built blocks, a new industrial method. But he was not included in the series, because... soon the method of panel assembly of houses was invented. For all these architectural innovations, the building was given protected status. Many famous people, for example, writer Konstantin Simonov and actress Valentina Serova, figure skater Irina Moiseeva, lived in the six-story “Lacework House”, built next to the hippodrome.

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Leningradsky pr., 27, Moscow

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Near the Kievsky railway station there is an extraordinary building, glowing with blue lights in the evenings and looking like a beehive, in which there are hundreds of offices and shops. The large-scale modern center surprises with its monumentalism and has an unusual appearance: the upper floors, like a sailboat, spread out in breadth, hanging over the first ones. The eleven-story house, built in 2008 from raw concrete, won the 2009 House of the Year award. The project manager is Andrey Bokov, who strives to embody in his work ideas about the needs of modern society, which desires not only comfort, but also the opportunity to renounce the world and, catching a gust of wind, be carried away into a dream.

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Kyiv, 3, Moscow

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This six-story building was erected in the early 70s, in anticipation of the Olympics, and therefore took the shape of the Olympic ring. Evgeniy Stamo and Alexander Markelov conceived the idea of ​​building an Olympic village consisting of five ring houses. The idea was too unprofitable from an economic point of view, so it was only in 1979 that the same round house was built in Ramenki. A special feature of the architectural structure is that when joining the panels, a maximum permissible error of 6 degrees was used, which helped make the house the desired shape. Famous people artists - Galina Belyaeva, Saveliy Kramarov and Emil Loteanu - were once residents of this house.

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Nezhinskaya, 13, Moscow

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The nine-story business center in Hi-Teck style was built in 2007, taking into account the modern understanding of the needs of employers, employees and clients. A large glazed cube standing on a pedestal creates an optical illusion: the building appears voluminous due to the stepped façade. There is a helipad on the roof of the building, and inside there is a huge conference room, equipped in accordance with all the rules for holding official events. This is the only Class A building in the South-Eastern District.

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Volgogradsky pr., 43/3, Moscow

Like most districts of Moscow, Shchukino suffered from infill development and, in general, urban planning from the time of Luzhkov. However, unlike most other districts, there has always been a strong group of independent people (one of the most active of them is still a member of parliament, Andrei Grebennik), who tried to preserve valuable buildings. As a result, many interesting objects have been preserved and excursions can be organized around the area.

Excursions are sometimes held, organized by Denis Romodin. I went to one of them, it was quite interesting for me. When I had the opportunity to hire a camera, one of the first tasks was to create an architectural map and an excursion route around the area: with the help of Denis, we collected sights and made them short description, and also prepared a map of the placement of signs, where there will be a sign indicating how many meters and in which direction to go to the next object.

*this is just a rough sketch, don’t pick on the design

Today at the Municipal Assembly, I will propose accepting an appeal to the mayor of Moscow with a proposal to implement this project or allocate a subvention for us to implement independently (we cannot raise money ourselves, so we have to ask).

Until we turn, let’s take a look at what we have to see here in Shchukino.

For example, Gateway No. 8 of the channel named after. Moscow

This building has interested me since childhood: you ride a tram along Volokolamka, and a barge floats above you. Traffic on this section of the canal takes place on four levels: motor ships go on the water, electric trains go above the water, cars and trams go under water, and the metro goes even deeper.
Next to this gateway there is now a slab on which it is written that here in 1941 there was a line of defense for Moscow (the line of defense ran higher, and the canal structures were used for military purposes).
As a child, my grandfather and I often went to the embankment near the lock to watch the barges and its work. The huge gates begin to move, the water begins to boil... I always liked it.

Ensemble of residential buildings "German Settlement"

The unique low-rise residential complex was built in the late 1940s by the workshop of the chief architect of Moscow D.N. Chechulina in collaboration with the architect M.G. Kupovsky.
Local residents have a version that this quarter was built by captured Germans. This is where the popular name of the quarter came from - “German Settlement”.
This complex is the pride of my colleague in the Shchukin Assembly, Andrei Grebennik: they wanted to demolish the complex and build the Donstroevsky high-rise building. Andrey discovered a situation in which several houses had already been evicted, while others were about to be resettled and demolished. Several years of work and struggle with the then mayor’s office led to the fact that it is now an architectural monument protected by the state. It is located right next to the Oktyabrskoe Pole metro station, where there is also a cool Italian restaurant called Primavera - this is a great option if you want to sit in something off the chain during your walk.

Church in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God “Quick to Hear” on Khodynka Field

The stone church building, built in 1901-1902, which now appears in the courtyard of residential buildings, was part of the camp department of the Moscow military hospital for military schools of Khodynsky Field.

The consecration of the church on August 1, 1902 was marked by a parade in the presence of H.I.V. Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, which is captured in the photograph. Two and a half years later, the Grand Duke would die in the Kremlin from Kalyaev’s bomb. Behind the church you can see the Great All Saints Grove. Both churches were closed after 1917, the wooden one was dismantled, and the stone one, according to Soviet tradition, housed various warehouses (the last one in the early 90s was “Soyuzsamotsvety”). The temple was re-consecrated in 1992, and a Sunday school operates there.

Residential building, Marshal Meretskov street, building 1

One of the few former residential buildings of post-war Moscow that have survived in this quarter. Previously, this part of the street overlooked the projected Park Ring (now Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street), and in 1946-1948 a block of 3-4-story residential buildings in the Italian style was built here, but in the 1970s, some of the houses were demolished and the street covered two panel buildings

Ensemble of houses of employees of the Kurchatov Institute

Three small residential buildings with motifs of Italian architecture were built in 1947 according to the design of the architect L.B. Dwarf. For a long time, the central building housed a grocery store, in front of which there is now a park with a flower bed.

Now these three houses are home to the Kurchatovsky HOA and the people living there, including the chairman Oleg Zolotarev, treat the architectural heritage very carefully, even opening an interesting museum. Their request to install barriers and limit access to the buildings to everyone except residents of the HOA has been rejected by the Municipal Assembly several times already and, I hope, will be rejected today.

Academicians' cottages on Pekhotnaya Street

Built in the late 1940s for academicians of the Kurchatov Institute. There are several very nice houses that now stand among the new boring twelve-story buildings; when you walk around them, you can immediately imagine the life and way of life of that time

The first experimental frameless panel residential building in Moscow. Built in 1955 and was supposed to become a mass series, but two years later the Khrushchev project appeared

Club-dining room of the military town named after. Kliment Voroshilov. The building was built in the 1930s, retaining a large terrace and ticket windows near the main entrance

House 13 building 1 on Marshal Vasilevsky Street

The residential building, built in 1936, is unique with an arch six bays wide and three floors high. Between the arches there is a glazed cylinder of the staircase. Architects - L. Feldman, N. Ripinsky, N. Cherkassky. Part of the military town named after. Kliment Voroshilov, who existed here until the 1960s

The sculpture “Relayman” (“Young Man with a Grenade”) in the courtyard of 13 building 1 on the street. Marshal Vasilevsky

Part of the intra-quarter stadium that existed on this site (1930s - 1990s). The stadium was demolished and two Don-Stroy residential buildings were built there. I remember around 1989, at this stadium, I attended a figure skating lesson (the only time in my life)

Kurchatov Culture Center

Opened in May 1950 for employees of the Kurchatov Institute. Violinist D. Oistrakh and cellist M. Rostropovich played here, opera singers E. Obraztsova and G. Vishnevskaya performed, A. Raikin gave the premiere of his play “The Tree of Life”

Walking around the Shchukino district between these objects, you can come across many more interesting things: for example, the Kurchatov Institute, at the entrance to which hangs a radiation meter, which was installed there after local residents expressed concern about possible leaks

Many beautiful residential buildings from Stalin's times, such as, for example, house 52 on Zhivopisnaya Street

There is also one interesting object: an artillery bunker on the banks of the Moscow River, built in 1941. This is a real monument to the defense of Moscow, a real object that was built for defense, and then was happily forgotten and is now in this state

photo from here

Regarding this object, I will propose to the Municipal Assembly tomorrow to write a letter to the mayor of Moscow with a proposal to repair the object by May 9th. This is not a 10-meter concrete stele, but a real preserved military facility

In general, there is something to see in Shchukino. Now there is somewhere to sit while walking. By next summer, I hope there will be an architectural map of the area, so that next to each object there will be a description and an indication of where to go next. We will develop intra-Moscow tourism :)

If you already want to visit Shch, then here you go map(we made it for internal use).