Tushino Moscow Building by Steven Holl Architects
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Tushino Moscow Building by Steven Holl Architects
Contemporary Architecture in Russia for Developer Vi Holding – design by Steven Holl Architects
22 Feb 2018
Tushino Moscow Building by Steven Holl Architects
Design: Steven Holl Architects
Location: Tushino, North West Moscow, Russia
Tushino Moscow Building by Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl Architects, in collaboration with Art-group ?Kamen?, recently won the international design competition for the residential quarters of the Tushino district in Moscow.
The US architecture firm beat Fuksas Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Mad Global, and Tsimalo, Lyashenko & Partners.
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The development will provide a new mixed-use center filled with housing, social spaces, a kindergarten and an elementary school on a former paratrooper airfield.
Steven Holl Architects has proposed a new building typology, ?Parachute Hybrids,? which combines residential bar and slab structures with supplemental programming suspended in sections above, like parachutes frozen in the sky. Large circular openings in the towers? facades give a defining geometric character and express health and social spaces. The master plan is organized to shape public space with maximum sunlight exposure. The buildings wrap around to create large, public garden and playground spaces as a reference to the site?s former use as a paratrooper air fi...
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