A2M; Sergey Skuratov Architects
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Who builds the incredible skyscrapers of Moscow and the modern public spaces of Russian cities?
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Sergei Tchoban, SPEECH office
Author of one of the tallest buildings in the world, the Federation Complex in Moscow (374 meters), Sergei Tchoban (born 1962) is one of the most famous contemporary architects and the founder of SPEECH. After the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Germany, and now lives straddling two cities, Moscow and Berlin.
Federation Complex
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He designed residential buildings and urban spaces in the German capital (Schönefeld Airport Square, Jewish Cultural Center, Museum of Architectural Graphics) and Düsseldorf (C&A office). In Russia, he designed famous sports facilities – the Ice Palace CSKA Arena in Moscow, the Watersports Palace in Kazan, the main media center of the Olympic Games in Sochi, as well as new residential districts in the main cities of the country. .
Museum of Architectural Graphics, Berlin
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Nikolai Choumakov, Metrogiprotrans company
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Perhaps no Russian architect has built as many metro stations and transport facilities as Nikolai Shumakov (born 1954).
Fonvizinskaya metro station
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His designs have given rise to more than 20 metro stations (including those in Butyrskaya, Fonvizinskaya, Chipilovskaya and Park Pobedy), the new Vnukovo-1 terminal complex, a traffic control center north of Moscow shaped giant egg, and several cable-stayed bridges, including the Zhivopisny (“Picturesque”) bridge, one of the most beautiful in Russia.
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Andreï Adamovitch and Dana Matkovskaïa, A2M bureau
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These young architects and founders of A2M are the authors of one of the most ambitious military museums recently erected. The Memorial Museum in the village of Petrichchevo, near Moscow, is dedicated to Zoïa Kosmodemianskaya, heroine of World War II, and bears her first name: ZOÏA. Many critics have called it one of the most impressive architectural constructions in Russia in recent years.
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Several ultra-modern perinatal centers, sports buildings and office buildings were also built in the Moscow region on the plans of this duo.
Shopping center and offices
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Dmitri Likine and Oleg Chapiro, WOWHAUS office
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The founders of the Moscow office WOWHAUS, Dmitri Likine (born in 1966) and Oleg Chapiro (born in 1966), have been initiating trends in the planning of public spaces since 2007. In collaboration with a team of young and talented architects, they transform banks and squares abandoned as favorite leisure areas for residents.
Moscow Polytechnic Museum Amphitheater
The amphitheater of the Moscow Polytechnic Museum, the Quays of the Tula Kremlin, the Kaluga Innovation Center and the Sevastopol Park – these projects have turned out to be very modern and environmentally friendly through the use of wooden structures. Thanks to these architects, the first modern public spaces appeared in Moscow – the renovated Gorky Park and the Krymskaya Quay.
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Read also: Five ambitious projects designed around the world by Russian architects
Boris Bernaskoni, bureau Bernaskoni
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Bernaskoni (born 1977) is mainly devoted to the design of cultural and educational centers. Some of his most famous projects include the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg (an interactive museum dedicated to Russian political history), the Hypercube at the Skolkovo Innovation Center, and the Russian government’s press center.
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Bernaskoni calls his style hyperfunctionalism, stressing that the functionality of the building is more important than the design.
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Nikita Iaveïn, bureau Studio-44
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Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with stunning architecture, and building new buildings and public spaces here is a delicate task.
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Iaveïn (born in 1954) and his team were however entrusted with the important restoration and renovation of the General Staff of the Hermitage. He also oversaw the construction of Ladoga station, the city’s most recent, and the Boris Eïfman Dance Academy.
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Iouri Grigoryan, bureau Meganom
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The office headed by architect Yuri Grigoryan (b.1965) is almost the flagship of museum construction in Russia. He is leading the overall reconstruction of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, integrating buildings and different spaces into a single city-museum; he was also entrusted with the new building of the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin and the construction of a new branch of the Tretyakov gallery in Kaliningrad.
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Since 2014, Meganom has been transforming Moscow’s waterfront areas into ecological and functional walks, and since the late 1990s he has been active in town planning across the country: the architects of the office have built several elite residential complexes in Moscow. , an unusual building in Sochi that looks like a sea reef, a shopping street with shops and a concert hall in Barvikha near Moscow, and they returned its historic image to the Outro Rossii printing press. Grigoryan and his team will also build one of New York’s tallest skyscrapers, 262 Fifth.
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Sergueï Skouratov, bureau Sergey Skuratov Architects
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Skouratov (born 1955) designs futuristic residential complexes made up of structures of different volumes. From a distance, they look like piles of geometric shapes frozen in the air and special attention is given to the public spaces of the new neighborhoods.
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Among the most interesting projects are the skyscraper on Mosfilmovskaya Street, the “Garden Quarters” at Frunzenskaya Station, an apartment complex at Alekseevskaya Station and the “Russian Lounge” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.
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In this other article, we introduced you to the seven founding fathers of Soviet architecture.
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