- RKM_SPOT RKM_SAVE URBAN HERITAGE An international campaign for the preservation of Constructivist Architecture in Moscow is lead by Moskonstruct.
- Leaving Moscow… We left Moscow with good feelings… we stepped into a very interesting subject and came back with renewed curiosity and enthousiasm to go forward in our project (s). The first impact with Moscow has been tough and puzzling, the impression was of an hostile and repulsive city, too big, too noisy, too competitive… and difficult […]
- MIAN Among the actors involved in the recent history of the Narkomfin there is also MIAN, (Moscow Real Estate Investment Agency) a company among the most powerful in the sector in Russia, which has acquired a certain amount of apartments inside the building, and is trying to get the entire ownership in order to redevelop the […]
- The old poet There is an old man who lives nearby the Narkomfin, notably in the stalinian building build in the place of the 5th element of the narkomfin project; every time he sees someone hanging around and taking pictures, he comes out and start to tell stories about both buildings, and the competition among them to be […]
- Maryino Maryino is one of the biggest dormitory neighbourhoods surrounding Moscow. Built in the Eighties, it hosts today almost half a million inhabitants. It represents a good example of what is contemporary Moscow in terms of architecture, atmosphere and social organization. We choose to set in Maryino a shooting session with the participation of the young […]
- Inside Narkomfin
- Dr. N.A. Semashko People’s commisar of the health. Dr. Semashko is an important figure among the circle of the reformers of the everyday. He lived for a while in the Narkomfin but in 1932 he left his first wife there and moved with the new one in a stalinian building closer to the Cremlin. Before the Revolution there […]
- A.A.Deineka Among the occupants of the Narkomfin building, during the first year there was also Alexander Aleksandrovich Deineka, painter, graphic, member of the Oktober group, author among other works of the wonderful mosaics of the Majakowskaja station of the moscow metro.
- Bulgakov-mosca anni ’20 Let’s establish, once and for all: home is the angular stone of a man’s life. Let’s consider this as an axiom: without a home, a man can’t even exist. Having said so, I have something to communicate to all those who live in Berlin, Paris, London, etcetera: in Moscow there are no apartments. So, how could […]
- N.A.Milyutin People’s Commissar for the Finance of the USSR, commissioned the Narkomfin House. It was after the revolution that Milyutin became a statesman, but architecture and painting were always the principal passion of his life. He drew all his life, even at he front during he war. In his youth, he lived in St.Petersburg and graduated […]