«The main builder of Moscow» Vladimir Resin made good on the construction of new buildings Tretyakov Gallery. Central House of Artists, will likely be demolished. However, whether in its place «Orange» - yet unknown

First Deputy Mayor of Moscow, the head of the capital stroykompleksa Vladimir Resin signed an order to establish a working group on the new building the Tretyakov Gallery. This means that the idea of demolishing the Central House of Artists on the Crimean Val moved to the stage of the adoption of working solutions. Kommersant commented Gregory-Ревзин.

Working Group, according to the Moscow government, founded on the instructions of the first deputy chairman of Government of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov. This is a key point for understanding the situation.

Remember the background. In April, an exhibition on the investment company in Cana «INTECH» presented an innovative project «Orange» British architect Norman Foster. The project involved the demolition of the building the Central House of Artists and the building in its place a building in the form of an orange, cut into slices. The driving forces in the fight against the project of Foster began organizing in the Central House of Artists - a building shared by the Central House of Artists and the State Tretyakov Gallery. Tretyakov director Valentin Rodionov and the chairman of the Confederation of the creative unions of CIS countries (those organizations and is owned building CHA) Masut Fatkulin released an open letter to the cry for help, and he responded. About 200 publications interpreted the situation as totally unacceptable, as the seizure of cultural property.

What's happened over six months? Vice-premier Igor Shuvalov has issued an order to study the issue. If the matter is being worked on that level, then, almost all agreed. Pursuant to the First Deputy Prime Minister was set up a commission headed by the Director of the Department of Mass Communications, Culture and Education Government of the Russian Federation Denis Molchanov and two zamami - First Vice-Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin, and the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Pavel Horoshilovym. In this commission have been incorporated and the two opponent project. The Commission was faced with the need, first, to meet their demands, secondly, the interaction between Moscow and federal authorities.

According to the «Kommersant», both of these issues resolved.

And Valentin Rodionov, and Masut Fatkulin changed his view about the inadmissibility of the demolition of buildings and the commission now decide the most advantageous placement of their organizations in the areas of future complex. Is it good or bad? I personally building to CHA maloudachnym Brezhnev product architecture, which blocks the development of a district in the city center. Attempts to tighten the building under the concept of the monument and to include it in the demolition of old Moscow seemed lost my speculation, based on the property, rather than cultural interests.

I was only partly right. Lord Rodionov and Fatkulin really have withdrawn their claim for the loss of important cultural heritage of Russia in return for discussions on the division of land in the future together. However, the Director of the Central House of Artists Vasily Bychkov (also known as operating head of the building under a contract with Mr Fatkulinym company «Expo-Park») is in no way agreed with such a question. He believes the building is indeed an outstanding piece of architecture and compares it to the Pompidou Center in Paris. He even launched a protest against the demolition of the Central House of Artists at the Venice Biennale, which is going to implement Boris Bernasconi. It is unlikely that action will have a great international resonance, but in Russia it can be seen, as Boris Bernasconi - a young man who wins this year, the Western stars of the competition for the museum project in Perm - the real promise of our architecture. It's also possible to protect the CHA will be able to mobilize some of the older generation of architects, who appreciate Brezhnev modernism. Of the people with an impeccable reputation will call Yevgenia Assa and Nicholas Lyzlova who already were in the protection of CHA. Note that «Expo-park» - the company conducting a number of important exhibitions in Moscow, such as the «Art Moscow», «Arch-Moscow», antique shop, Fair Non-fiction, where there are not many cultural authority, so that votes Protest still likely to be heard.

Vasily Bychkov explained «Kommersant», that he was not opposed to the idea of development of the district. But not in a position to address this issue backstage, in the committees. «I am for open public discussion of the development of this territory - the director of CHA. - You should ask people that useful - another commercial property, or the current park area». His program-best - the creation of this national cultural center with the other cultural institutions, except the CHA and Tretyakov, like the Museum Quarter in Vienna.

In my opinion, the omission of the commission Vassily Bychkova Shuvalov was a mistake. Company «Expo-park» - the most qualified operator of exhibition buildings (in my opinion, even in Moscow), the only company that can form the technical specification for the construction of a new complex. And she is able to create a negative background of the project, the less intense after the Tretyakov and the Confederation of creative unions persuaded, but it is noticeable. Hard to say why Mr Bychkova not called - either because it is not the owner of the building, hired a director and decided not to divide space, or because he is so fond of the building that seemed difficult to persuade the Commission Shuvalov. One way or another, but the process is moved without him. This is sad, but hardly at Basil Bychkova enough force to stop the demolition, even given the reliance on public opinion. Against the decision, approved by the government, this is usually not enough, not enough even against the decisions approved by the mayor's office, and then they act in a coherent manner.

What is planned at the site CHA? Vladimir Resin formed a committee of officials from the Moscow government. According to «Interfax», headed by its chairman Moskomarhitektury Alexander Kuzmin, also it will include representatives of the Moscow Department of Nature Management and Environment (which means that the planned changes in the protection of the territory, now equal to the park of culture and leisure), stroykompleksa city (which means that are going to implement the project by the Moscow stroykompleksa) Moskomnaslediya (it is necessary for the demolition), Prefectural Central District of the city (hence, it is a multipurpose structure, which includes housing, offices, hotels, ie, increasing pressure on the infrastructure of the district), the Department of Culture, as well as a number of other metropolitan authorities. Engaged forces show that the project has changed. The point is that the initial draft of Foster does not suggest a large-scale resource for its embodiment. There is, in fact, dealt with the replacement of one building to another (in my opinion, too maloosmyslennoe from the functional point of view), chest in orange. There is clearly going to design the urban area.

Now, the procedure should be declared a new contest, and it has yet to be won. Satisfy whether the current draft of Foster Competition Commission states (complex includes the building of TG, that is, it will hold officials) - the big question. But even though today we can not say whether it would be built on the embankment of the Crimean «Orange» Foster, CHA is likely to be demolished. It is no longer in Foster. Large piece of land opposite the church of Christ the Savior put into circulation, the price of the issue - a few billion dollars, want to find in any case. The only question is that in the end is not a project, compared with the CHA will seem truly a national treasure, comparable in quality to the Pompidou Center.

Source: kommersant.ru