Narkomfin

Back to Moscow We are back again to Moscow. This time hot weather is accompanying us; an unusual hot season slows down even the constant flux of Muscovites in the streets. The Narkomfin itself seems to suffer even more the brightness of the sun light in the cracks of the walls. The big trees around the building are […] jo pixel No responses 2010-07-10
The construction of Narkomfin jo pixel No responses 2010-07-06
NY_interview with Yekaterina Milyutin jo pixel No responses 2010-07-03
Narkomfin denied Bad news, the Moskostruct exhibition that was foreseen to take place in the Narkonfin, was denied the permission form the residents. Apparently, the inhabitants are tired of journalists and students visiting the place, while none of their requests about the refurbishing of the building happens. Some rupture happened during last week in the relationship with […] jo pixel No responses 2009-09-30
Narkomfin inspired The Narkomfin building was acknowledged by Le Corbusier as an influence on his Unité d’Habitation . the layout of its duplex apartments have been copied by Moshe Safdie in his Expo 67 flats, as well as by Denys Lasdun in his luxury flats at St James’, London. jo pixel No responses 2009-09-10
Dom Novogo Byta_Videoinstallation Videoinstallation presented at the Moskonsctruct exhibition, Garage Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, October 2009 jo pixel No responses 2009-09-09
AD n.7/6, 1970 jo pixel No responses 2009-05-20
SA n.5, 1930 SA, Sovrimanja Architektura, the magazine of the constructivists, published before this design was developed, a Russian translation of Le Corbusier’s celebrated 5 points of the new architecture, in which Le Corbusier based the new discourse on the use of concrete, and insisted on the meaning pilotis, ribbon windows, the free plan, the free façade and […] jo pixel No responses 2009-05-18
SA n.5, 1929 The building commissioned by Nikolai Milyutin, who was the people’s commissar for finance of the Russian federation, to Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati Milinis is an exceptional building, it is a prototype of a new kind of architecture , an architecture in which daily life, in which residential life would be re-articulated on a collective base. […] jo pixel No responses 2009-05-18
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 […] jo pixel No responses 2009-05-14