Zaha Hadid, Meganom, Studio 44 among finalists to develop housing renovation site concepts in Moscow

The Archcouncil of Moscow announced 20 finalists in the Architectural and Urban Planning Competition. Launched this past April, the competition is seeking the best design concepts for five experimental housing renovation sites throughout Moscow. Selected from an initial 133 applications, the finalist teams will be assigned to work in the Kuzminki, Golovinsky, Tsaritsyno, Prospect Vernadskogo and Khoroshevo-Mnevniki districts.

The international list of finalists include Zaha Hadid Architects, Transsolar, MEGANOM, Studio 44, Steven Holl Architects, Nikken Sekkei, Sergey Skuratov Architects, and more. A total of five winners (one for each site) will be selected to finalize their proposal. Check out the full list of finalists for each site below.

1. Kuzminki

Lots 115,116, 121 of Kuzminki (South-Eastern Administrative District), total area — 109.6 ha, 86 buildings to be renovated.

Finalists:

• Spectrum Group, AREP GROUP
• OOO TPO Pride, Zaha Hadid Architects, ARTEZA, Transsolar, Tyrens, KPMG, KROST, Habidatum
• Project SPEECH, Non-Commercial Partnership “Research Institute of Transport and Road Facilities”, Ilya Mochalov and Partners, LLC
• OOO PIK-Proyekt

2. Golovinsky

Lots 13,14,20, 123, 123А of Golovinsky district (Northern Administrative District), total area — 133.3 ha, 75 buildings to be renovated.

Finalists:

• MEGANOM, State Unitary Enterprise “Research and Project Institute of Moscow City Master Plan”, OOO “Khabidatum Lab”, Dvorulitsa
• Architectural bureau "Tsimailo Lyashenko & Partners", Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Valode & Pistre Architectes, Non-Commercial Partnership “Research Institute of Transport and Road Facilities”, OOO LTS
• ASADOV architecture studio, OOO KIM-SH, Ilya Mochalov and Partners, LLC, PROSPECTA
• OOO “Architectural bureau of T. Bashkayev”

3. Tsaritsyno

Lot 2А, 2Б of Tsarytsyno district (Southern Administrative District), total area — 106.4 ha, 70 buildings to be renovated.

Finalists:

• OOO “TPO Rezerv”
• Sergey Skuratov Architects
• Studio 44
• OOO Progress, Design Erick van Egeraat BV, Cushman & Wakefield

4. Prospect Vernadskogo

Lot 32-33, 34-35 of Prospect Vernadskogo (Western Administrative District), total area — 126.4 ha, 58 buildings to be renovated.

Finalists:

• Mosproyect, JSC, Ginzburg Architects
• Architectural Bureau “Ostozhenka”
• OOO Master’s Plan, Bofill Arquitectura, S.L.
• Art Group Kamen, Steven Holl Architects, OOO «Tsentr gorodskikh innovatsiy i tekhnologiy», Mosproyekt-4

5. Khoroshevo-Mnevniki

Lot 74, 77, 80, 81 of Khoroshevo-Mnevniki (North-Western Administrative District), total area — 125.9 ha, 78 buildings to be renovated.

Finalists:

• UNK project, Nikken Sekkei
• A-Proyekt.k, Carlo Ratti Associati, Alt Proyekt
• MLA+, Buromoscow, OOO Tridika, Mobility in Chain S.r.l., Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners, Habidatum
• AI-Architects, Yuri Sheredega, Alexander Weisfeld, Alexander Mozhaev, Stanislav Myagkov, Alexander Marulin