The New Life of Old Architecture: Exhibition in Tsereteli Art Gallery
The Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow, the Moscow City Department of Culture, Moscow Committee for Architecture and City Planning, the Russian Academy of Arts present in Tsereteli Art Gallery an exhibition “The New Life of Old Architecture: Restoration, Reconstruction, Recreation”.
This direction in Russian architecture of the last years is one of the priorities. The reconstruction of historical buildings and their adjustment for today’s purposes, well-grounded and highly professional recreation of destroyed monuments of architecture enables to preserve the traditional city environment. The exhibition shows major restoration and recreation projects recently successfully implemented by Russian architects, including members of the Russian Academy of Arts.
One of the most significant among them is a revival of the architectural and landscape museum complex – the State Museum-Preserve “Tsaritsyno” executed by “Mosproject-2” design company headed by its Director-General Michael Posokhin, Vice-President and Academician-Secretary of the Architecture Department of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Architect of Russia. The complex includes a Grand Palace, museum space in the Bread House, over 200 ha of the museum territory with unique elements of park architecture. The exhibition in Tsereteli Art Gallery features a lot of photographs depicting its construction stages, drawings and historical documents proving the huge volume of research work carried out prior to the beginning of the construction.
On display are also models of the restored ensembles of the Moscow Kremlin – the Grand Kremlin Palace and Terem Palace, photo materials on the reconstruction of Moscow historical bridges across the Moskva-river; the famous monuments of architecture Manezh and Old Gostiny Dvor, that are now central exhibition halls; restoration of historical buildings and reconstruction of old districts in the downtown of Moscow, such as Bolshaya Yakimanka, Rogozhskaya Zastava, Gogolevsky Boulevard, Chisty Lane and others; reorganization of the territories around old factories such as the Red October, Red Rose, RotFront, now used for cultural purposes, restoration of subway stations (Mayakovskaya and others).
A special section is devoted to the revival and reconstruction of Russian Orthodox churches and monasteries, theses include the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and Marpho-Mariinsky Convent of Mercy in Moscow, Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonder Worker in Kronstadt, development of the territory of the Smolny Convent in St. Petersburg, etc.
Among the projects that are under way of big interest is a major reconstruction of the Dinamo soccer stadium in Leningradsky Prospect in Moscow.
On September 28, 2011 in the White Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts there will be a scientific and practical conference on the main trends and problems of reconstruction, restoration and recreation of monuments of architecture and historical landscapes.
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