Capital Group and Herzog & de Meuron presented an architectural concept of Badayevsky Brewery
The development company Capital Group and the Swiss architectural bureau Herzog & de Meuron presented in Moscow an architectural concept of developing a 6 hectares site at Badayevsky Brewery, located 7 km from the Kremlin. The design idea involves reconstruction of historical industrial buildings, complementing the surroundings with new functions and beautification, including within the embankment boundaries, for the city residents. The ensemble will be completed with a new structure featuring a modern architectural solution, unprecedented in the capital: The building will rise 35 meters above the ground on columns.
"When developing the concept of the project, we set an ambitious goal – to create a new symbol of the city which would become a landmark of Moscow. There were three objectives that we managed to achieve: the first one – to preserve the sites of cultural heritage and to renew their appearance if necessary, the second – new construction, infrastructure, and, finally, the third – to create a new park with a beautified embankment in the center of Moscow. The presented architectural concept is in line with these tasks and implies redevelopment of historical buildings together with creating commercial and residential clusters with a two-story underground parking. I am sure that you will appreciate the format, unusual for Moscow – villas with panoramic views," Chairman of the Board at Capital Group Pavel Te shared the details of the architectural solution.
The authors of the project call creation of new public spaces in combination with historical buildings with free access one of the main advantages of the concept.
As Pierre de Meuron, co-founder of the Swiss architectural bureau Herzog & de Meuron, notes, the key advantage of the Badayevsky Brewery complex will be creation of new public areas, accessible for everyone, including a promenade along the Moskva River embankment and a meadow wood park. The new building rises above the ground on slender pillars, which connect it with the surrounding park, offering spectacular panoramic views of the Moskva River, park, restored buildings, the Ukraine hotel, Kutuzovsky Avenue, Government House and Moscow City MIBC. When developing the project, it was necessary to achieve seemingly mutually exclusive goals – to restore the historic buildings, on the one hand, and to come up with qualitatively new architectural solutions for life and work, on the other.
Commenting on inviting the world-famous Swiss bureau to designing, Capital Group noted that they were looking for architects with a new level of thinking and professional expertise and with experience in implementing projects across different cities around the globe.
"Together with our partners from the Herzog & de Meuron architectural bureau we managed to find a way to exclude the remarkable "signature style" with ideology and certain mindset recurring throughout the projects. Each Herzog & de Meuron project is an absolutely new view, a new approach to solving the tasks. Their global ideas are not similar to each other and this is what was reflected in the proposed solutions for the project," said Mikhail Khvesko, Executive Director of Capital Group.
Herzog & de Meuron is famous for such global projects as the Tate Modern Gallery in London, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Olympic stadium in Beijing, etc.