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PLP Architecture reveals titanium-clad headquarters for Yandex in Moscow

August 12, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Headquarters for Yandex in Moscow by PLP Architecture

UK-based PLP Architecture has unveiled its design for a 12-storey office for Russian search engine Yandex in Moscow, which will be clad in titanium to create “a beacon” for the company. Set to be built in the Gagarinsky district of Moscow near the Moskva River, the 170,000-square-metre office block will house all of the company’s staff. PLP

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House in Russia hidden beneath artificial green hill

February 6, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
House in the Landscape by Niko Architect

Russian studio Niko Architect has sunk a Teletubby-style house underneath an artificial hill punctuated by conical skylights that pop out of its planted roof. Called House in the Landscape, the three-bedroom home near Moscow is hidden under lawn-covered hummocks. The funky green roof is reminiscent of the green domed house was the house of the

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Dvekati references 1960s Russia for interior of Moscow office

January 24, 2020 Ali Morris 0
Rupor office designed by Dvekati

MDF tiles and blue carpet are some of the simple materials that architecture studio Dvekati has used to furnish this office in Moscow, which takes cues from the pared-back aesthetic of Soviet modernism. Occupied by a PR agency called Rupor, the office measures just 45 square metres and is set inside a constructivist-style house that

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Iosa Ghini Associati counters Moscow’s “monotony” with brightly coloured apartment blocks

December 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Muscovite neighborhood by Iosa Ghini Associati and Mosproekt-3

Italian architecture studio Iosa Ghini Associati has worked with Russian firm Mosproekt-3 to complete  47 high-rise buildings clad with colourful panels on the outskirts of Moscow. Situated in the Dmitrovskoe Shosse district, the development consists of numerous 16-story high-rise blocks arranged around two vast communal courtyards with a strip of green space and low-rise buildings in between. While Mosproekt-3

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Reflective surfaces and light bulbs illuminate cocktail bar in Moscow

November 3, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Sundukovy Sisters use reflective surfaces to illuminate Moscow bar

More than 2,000 dimmable light bulbs and a selfie-friendly fabric fill the grand interior of this cocktail bar on Moscow’s Red Square in Russia. Located in the city’s famous 19th-century GUM shopping centre, the bar was recently overhauled by Sundukovy Sisters, a local studio run by twin sisters Irina and Olga Sundukovy, who were on

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Think tank to research terraforming Earth founded by Moscow’s Strelka Institute

August 30, 2019 India Block 0
The Terraforming think-tank by the Strelka Institute

The Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow has launched a postgraduate course to research how the Earth could be terraformed to reverse the impacts of climate change. Called The Terraforming, the interdisciplinary think tank will research ways in which the Earth could be dramatically transformed in the future to return it to

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Moscow furniture factory from the 1980s turned into loft-style apartments

August 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Rassvet Loft Studio by DNK Architecture

DNK Architecture Group has turned a former furniture factory in Moscow into apartments, replacing prefabricated concrete panel cladding with hand-made bricks. Zinc-framed windows punctuate the facade of handmade clinker bricks, where the clay is fired at high temperatures to produce a shiny surface. The development is called Rassvet Loft Studio after the Rassvet factory that still

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Moscow’s FanFood offers football supporters a place to grab a post-match pizza

July 31, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
FanFood restaurant by Mast near Dynamo Moscow's stadium

A goalkeeper-themed mural and football kit-coloured fixtures appear inside this pizza restaurant, which architecture studio Mast has created near Dynamo Moscow’s stadium in the Russian capital. Football-inspired decor details have been incorporated throughout FanFood in a nod to Moscow’s VTB Arena – a local landmark that studio Mast felt it “couldn’t ignore” during the pizzeria’s design process.

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Brass elements appear inside Moscow office by Alexander Volkov Architects

June 26, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
NV-9 office by Alexander Volkov Architects

Golden-hued volumes and a huge rotunda-like frame help arrange the layout of this office in Moscow, Russia, designed by Alexander Volkov Architects. Locally based Alexander Volkov Architects was tasked with forming “unusual and spectacular” interiors for the sales office of the building in Moscow’s NV-9 Artkvartal residential complex, where it occupies the top floor. It

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