The area at the intersection of Prospekt Mira and the Third Ring Road is one of those that has been changing the city's appearance in recent years.
Prospekt Mira is one of the city's most beautiful thoroughfares, a unified ensemble stretching from the Garden Ring to the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument. However, the area from the beginning of the Third Ring Road to the Rizhskaya overpass is currently the weakest compositionally, a place of emptiness and wide transport interchanges with the modest jewel of the Rizhsky Railway Station.
But everything will change very soon with the advent of high-rise developments by Russian Railways, the MOD project, and the Rizhskaya transport hub.
At the new site, we believe it's important to preserve the features of the ensemble development of Prospekt Mira: the powerful character of the ground floors, the beige-brown color, and the noble heaviness of the details.
But it's also important to resonate with the aesthetics of the modern complexes around it—light and airy. We divided the site into eight squares, placing low six-story blocks and towers of varying heights, ranging from 120 to 200 meters, in a checkerboard pattern.
The development is visually dominated by the low, six-story brick section, echoing the surviving brick buildings of the Mytishchi Water Supply, the Bakhrushin Shelter, and the Mariinsky Shelter. The upper portion is light and airy, like the metal-clad rocket at VDNKh.
Another important feature of this site is the opening of a green route from Catherine Park to Sokolniki and further to Losiny Ostrov, past the Russian Railways Museum and the boulevard on the eastern side. Therefore, we made the area as permeable and saturated with small-scale commercial activities as possible, contributing to the pleasant, friendly atmosphere of the area.