First up for discussion at a meeting of Archcouncil members on August 20 was not an individual project, but rather a development concept of a whole trend — industrial mass residential construction. Sergey Kuznetsov, the Chief Architect of Moscow, made an introductory report on the new criteria and requirements for house-building factoriesdeveloped by a team from the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow. Evgenia Murinets, Head of Directorate for the Architecture Council, told what actions will required from house-building factories to modernize standard elements.

Since the first screening of the popularly beloved comedy it has been almost four decades, but by an “irony of fate” Muscovites, and residents of cities in other countries for that matter, are still at risk of falling into the well-known comical situation. (In the film The Irony of Fate, the hero of the story mistakes a flat in Leningrad for his own flat in Moscow — essentially at fault were identical buildings in both cities). According to the estimates of the capital’s chief architect, Sergey Kuznetsov, house-building factory production now accounts for 30 to 50% of housing being built in Moscow. The immediate prospects for development of large areas in the new city territories will increase these volumes manifold.....Continue Reading

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