First, we
should say what the competition is about and what kind of results it wants to
reach. Until 3 December, the participants should create the concept of the
development of Moscow river embankment and adjacent territories for next 20
years. Organizers of the competition have listed the tasks that projects should
solve, which are:
- Reorganization of the
embankments of the priority of formation of public spaces
- Ensuring permeability and
improving links between adjacent areas and river
- Improving the quality and
comfort of the urban environment, improving the appearance of the
territories in order to improve the overall image of the city and making
it more attractive for residents and tourists
- Improving the environment
through the rehabilitation of the river and its valley complex
- Improvement of investment
prospects for the relevant areas through the enhancement of market value
of existing and planned real estate assets
Seems that
it will be a challenge for the participants to make such big project just in
two mounts, so I am excited to see the results.
Now I would
like to tell you some information about the teams of finalist, which were
selected from 47 consortiums, who tried to enter the competition. The name of
the consortium is the name of team leader, however there are also many bureaus
and consultants who work in this team.
Burgos &
Garrido Arquitectos Asociados (Spain)
The bureau exist
already for more than 12 years and during this time they did many projects of
social housing, parks, public territories and urban concepts. One of their main
recently finished projects is Madrid Rio, the huge territory in the city became
a magnificent walking path with parks, embankment and other public facilities.
Turrenscape
(China)
Turrenscape
is one of most well known architectural bureaus in such branches as landscape
and urban projects design. Their most famous project is called Gardens by the
bay in Singapore. They also were the finalist in the competition of Zariadie
Park in Moscow, so they are already experienced in working in this city.
Project
Meganom (Russia)
Yuri
Grigorian founded this bureau in 1999, at the first stages they did apartments
and private housing, but now the do architectural projects almost in any scale.
One of their most outstanding project was the reconstruction of ZIL factory. Yuri
is also the professor in Strelka and Marchi institutes. With Architecture University
he did very serious project in the analyses of Moscow.
SWA+RDNK
(USA)
This team
is one of the biggest experts in large-scale territory reorganization. They did
many projects of the embankment design like San Diego Embarcadero and Shenzhen
Bay.
Maxwan
(Holland)
Maxwan is
one of main European experts in social housing, public spaces, landscape and
urban design. This year they already took part in Moscow international
financial center design competition, which is one of the largest projects that
would be built here in several years. Their partners in the competition is
Atrium bureau, both teams were finalists (second and third places) in Zaridie
Park competition.
Ostojenka
(Russia)
Bureau
Ostojenka is one of the oldest architectural private firms is Russia. They are
specialist in residential and offices design in Moscow. However, some years ago
they took part in Moscow agglomeration project competition, where they proposed
some interesting ideas in Moscow embankment design.
some information in post is taken from themoscowriver.com and other websites
Nadtochiy Sergey
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