EAA is selected as a finalist for architectural competition held for the distinguished icon of Russian Constructivist Architecture, Udarnik Cinema, that is located at the heart of Moscow…

The two stages international architectural competition has been organized and facilitated by Avesta Group for Udarnik Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow, by invitation to design the new facility and oversee its renovation.
On April 10, 2014 Shalva Breus, Director of the Shalva Breus Foundation announced the names of the 6 finalists for the Udarnik architectural competition:
 

- EAA-Emre Arolat Architects, Turkey
- Erick van Egeraat, Netherlands
- Isozaki, Aoki & Associates, Japan
- John McAslan / Ralph Appelbaum Associates, UK/USA
- Robbrecht en Daem, Belgium
- Stephan Braunfels Architekten BDA, Germany

Teams from Japan, Russia, USA, France, Spain, Italy, China, Turkey, Belgium and Netherlands were invited to participate in the project competition.
A The winner announcement is due for June 2014.

The Soviet legendary cinema Udarnik will transform into a museum of contemporary art…

The legendary Udarnik, “will once again become one of Moscow’s cultural beacons, after disappearing from the scene for almost a decade,” said entrepreneur and Russian philanthropist Shalva Breus.
Built in 1931 by Boris Iofan, and open even during the darkest hours of World War II, the Udarnik has been used alternately as a cinema and a theatre for decades. By the 1990s, however, the building had gradually deteriorated and the ground floor had become occupied by a casino.
The EAA team of architects, engineers, art historians and experts of museology are involved in an intensive project work for Udarnik building, that is the timeless monument of Russian Constructivism fascinating generations of architects and an important and iconic building for Muscovites.

About EAA

Emre Arolat Architects was founded in May 2004 by Emre Arolat and Gonca Paşolar in Istanbul, as the continuation of Emre Arolat’s architectural practices which he started at Arolat Architects as an associate designer in 1987. Arolat Architects was founded in 1961 and the group has drawn significant professional experience from regular contributions to architectural competitions and executed significant housing, tourism facilities, leisure centers, administrative buildings and sports grounds projects. The practice is being continued with the same range of projects in EAA-Emre Arolat Architects with the contributions of other partners, Neşet Arolat, Şaziment Arolat, Sezer Bahtiyar and a professional architectural staff in its office in Istanbul.

In the architectural design process at EAA, main decisions consider interpretation of the ‘context’ in its widest sense. In this case, each context anticipates different approaches and this leads to an architectural practice where a conceptual and positional consistency is valid, rather than specific visual correspondences. The material use is determined by a categorical approach, depending on its visual and tactile nature, rather than designation of an inevitable specific material. Consequently, a flexible architectural expression is pursued on the basis of a definite conceptual ground.

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