Top 10 Brightest Buildings Built in Moscow in 2023

27 December 2023
Architecture is an inert thing. Today, buildings and structures are being opened that were first designed and built several years ago, that is, in a sense, in the previous era. We have selected 10 of the most notable.

South River Terminal
The Southern River Terminal, reconstructed by GES Construction, was chosen by Moskovich as one of the most interesting buildings of 2023.

A fairly free reconstruction of the Southern River Terminal building, built in the 1980s according to the design of Yuri Kogan. The silhouette of the building was changed, details were simplified, and some were completely lost, but in general the appearance of the late Soviet modernist station remained recognizable. They did not limit themselves to the reconstruction of one building, but also developed the adjacent embankment with Moscow scope.

The Atom Pavilion
The Atom Pavilion is the main public building that opened in 2023 in Moscow, and the most remarkable and convincing of the modern buildings at VDNKh. There are no obvious flirtations with the theme of nuclear energy in the UNK project; it is a reflection on the topic of openness, which has been relevant in architecture in recent years (if not decades). The main feature is a giant console with a reach of 53 meters, which hangs over the interior space and is clearly visible from the street through solid glass walls.

Cult Clubhouse
The Speech Bureau did not organize a revolution on Kaluga Square. The new building on the site of the Varshavskaya Hotel does not oppose the official style of the square, but rather gives it a new interpretation. The new building is more cheerful and fresher than its neighbors - the glass area is larger, the degree of expressiveness is also larger, and the height has grown a little.

New metro stations
In 2023, the Moscow Metro developed at an incredible pace. Quantity turned into quality, excellent stations appeared both from the masters of underground architecture (for example, two stations - installations on the theme of aviation by Leonid Borzenkov), and from young teams that won competitions for the BCL station. Fish on the Nagatinsky Zaton (Za Bor bureau) or oval balls on Maryina Roshcha (Ai architects) immediately after opening became popular on social networks.

Lumin Club House
The building hidden near the Kitay-Gorod metro station by the leading architects of heavy luxury, the Tsimailo Lyashenko and Partners bureau, is literally squeezed into the courtyard of the Delovoy Dvor, an administrative complex that began to take shape at the beginning of the 20th century. The architects did not play with the historical context (especially since it is not particularly legible here), but made a building assembled as if from cubes that run in steps along the driveway.

Tessinsky, 1
Sergey Skuratov's two favorite materials — brick and bronze — have met in a new apartment building near the Yauza. This is probably the architect's most complex construction in terms of composition — the entire drama of the building grows out of a preserved brick wall from the late 19th century. The flat façade turns into an almost theatrical fold to soften the transition from the old part to the new, the historical scale of the street is supported by a different color of brick in the lower part of the building. At the same time, the brick, as always with Skuratov, is hand-molded.

Red 7
The sculpture building by the famous Dutch architects MVRDV holds the corner of the Garden Ring and Academician Sakharov Avenue. It is assembled as if from pixels, and its shape is difficult to describe - in some places it literally pulls its volume inward, as at that very corner, or, on the contrary, protrudes its volume, forming terraces. Buildings with bright original architecture are the norm for Sakharov Avenue; in the 20th century, Alexey Shchusev, Le Corbusier and Leonid Pavlov left their mark here, so the MVRDV building successfully and logically complements this series.

«Lomonosov» 
The building of the innovation cluster "Lomonosov" on the new territory of Moscow State University is a reflection of the ideas of the chief architect of Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov about how a building-event, a building-icon should look. "Lomonosov" was designed by him together with the chief architect of the Kamen bureau Ivan Grekov. If you want to add drama, work on oppositions. The complexity of the plan and shape of the building is simplified by one facade material - glass, the lower part of the building rises upward in steps, in the upper part, on the contrary, the floors hang one over the other, and the smooth lines of the facade are contrasted with sharp angles.

Residential complex "Richard" on Zorge Street
A clever attempt by the Atrium bureau to solve a typical Moscow problem - to squeeze more square meters out of a site, but to make it look more humane. Given: two rather large residential buildings, but due to the play of volumes, voids, colors and facade solutions, the impression is created of not just diverse, but also multi-temporal development, as if the buildings were added on, completed and re-faced.

Eteri Tutberidze Figure Skating Center
The new sports complex built on a vacant lot in Yasenevo is an example of how to make something not only functional, but also expressive, using minimal architectural means. A rather dry image, built on a combination of glazed and blind surfaces, is diluted with a powerful cornice roof. The severity of this composition is diluted with a forest of 200 columns of different diameters.
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