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The renovated Moscow skating rink has been expanded byseveral thousand meters thanks to the efforts of the architectural studio Ai-architects. After its opening, it was recognized as the largest in the world! The reconstruction of the All-Russian Exhibition Center has come to an end, so it's time for victories. The World Records Academy recognized the updated skating rink at VDNKh as the largest in the world. Its area is more than 20 thousand square meters, and together with all the infrastructure - about 100,000. The design of the space, …

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Design company Elenberg Fraserimmortalized the forms of the singer Beyonce… The design company Elenberg Fraser immortalized the forms of the singer Beyonce in glass and concrete. The design of the new hotel building, according to the authors, was inspired by the image of the singer in the video clip called Ghost.

You can easily move around the city with a childa wheelchair? And imagine that you can’t see or can’t walk. This important topic was the subject of a round table discussion, where we acted not only as information partners, but also as speakers. What do you imagine when you hear the phrase “barrier-free space”? A street with smooth sidewalks, barriers on dangerous sections of the road, or convenient curbs? In reality…

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Recently, I became a co-author of the Russian projectThe architectural bureau UNK project became the designer of the newly opened interior boutique Crate & Barrel. This article is about how the architects created the interior for the iconic American store. The first chain store of furniture, tableware and interior items in Russia, Crate & Barrel, has opened in Moscow's Afimall. The architectural bureau with Western principles of work, UNK project, was invited to implement the interior design project.…

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Inter-apartment halls of a typical residential buildingturned into an art space, where more than 700 paintings by famous artists are presented. On March 10, the Wellton Park quarter presented the project "House-Museum "Golden Mile", which was implemented right in a residential building by the efforts of the construction concern "Krost" and the State Tretyakov Gallery with the support of the Federal Chamber of Culture. The project, which is essentially an exhibition of more than 700 paintings, became the first of its kind…

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Some of the most popular words today are ecology,ecology. This is not a tribute to fashion: the quality of the environment affects the value of your property. Today we give advice on how to find out about the environmental situation in Moscow and the region. Air quality in large cities - along with the transport issue, which is interconnected - is one of the main problems on which the health of residents of megalopolises and industrial…

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If you are intrigued by the prospect of having dinner rightin the middle of a frozen river, then the restaurant from OS31 will be to your liking. But you have to hurry, because it will only be open three weeks a year. You can only dream of spending an unforgettable evening in a restaurant on a lake. And when they say "on the lake", they don't mean the shore of the reservoir, but the water surface, although...

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Open All-Russian Competition for Perestroikatwo cinemas – Varshav and Voskhod – have come to an end. On January 26, the winners were announced. The competition was organized on the initiative of ADG group by the strategic development agency Center with the support of the Moscow Committee for Architecture and the Agency for Communication Rules. The task was set as follows: to develop a cinema redevelopment project that would maximally combine the new program model with the architectural planning solution. On November 6…

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Today marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of oneof the greatest architects of Russia - Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov Today marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest architects of Russia - Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov. His projects were so original and fantastic for their time that they caused either a storm of delight or rejection. However, he managed to build about fifteen buildings and erect more…

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