Test Run

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Natalia

Last week I did a test run to check out how the new digital separations will burn into the screens, and my ability to print on a larger scale. Results: new digital separations work just fine but I’m going to need more muscle to cleanly print the larger prints. Luckily, I have some tricks up my sleeve to get this issue resolved! However, I do think the fading away at the edges is appropriately illustrating how some of these buildings are disappearing right before our very eyes… such as in the case of the Dynamo Stadium in the previous posts.

^22×30 in. paper

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Dynamo Stadium – Then & Now

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Natalia

THEN:
Dynamo Stadium photos from Фотографии старой Москвы (Photographs of old Moscow)

^1936-1940

^1940-1950

^1935 Preparing the field after reconstruction of the stadium

^1936

^1936-1940 from the series “Architecture of Moscow (1920-1940)”

^1941 Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White from LIFE magazine archives

^1945-1949

^1945-1950

^1947 Celebration of Moscow’s 800 year anniversary

^1947 Celebration of Moscow’s 800 year anniversary

^1952 Volleyball World Championship

^1954 All Union Parade of Athletes

^1963 Track and field match between RSFSR-GDR-Poland

^1980 Olympics

^1990
(photograph captions and dates are provided by oldmos.ru)

And NOW:

^2008. Dynamo Stadium celebrated it’s 80 anniversary. On November 22, 2008, a farewell match was played, and the stadium was closed for “reconstruction” / demolition.

^Photo by Grigory Dukor / Reuters.
From The Moscow Times article “Start of Stadium Demolition Draws Outcry”, Feb 12, 2012

^Photo from newreportage.ru article “Picket for the preservation of monuments”

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Dynamo Demolition

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Natalia

When photographing architecture for my project in fall of 2011, I had wanted to photograph the Dynamo stadium to feature on one of my posters. Unfortunately, it was already covered up with ads by VTB bank advertising its reconstruction…



It seems reconstruction now means DEMOLITION.

READ The Moscow Times article:
“Start of Stadium Demolition Draws Outcry”

READ The Moscow News article:
“Dinamo stadium delayed – and commercial development cuts the budget”

READ Arkhnadzor’s article:
В Москве ломают знаменитый стадион «Динамо»

All about the NEW LOOK for Dynamo Stadium -> VTB Arena Park at e-architect.

PHOTOS of the proposed VTB Arena Park here.

WATCH VIDEOS OF WHAT’S TO COME…

“On 28 June 2010 this movie was presented to the jury of the closed competition for VTB Arena Park in Moscow. The 300,000-m2 VTB Arena Park is one of the largest projects that will be developed in the Russian Federation in the coming years…”

READ the YouTube description in its entirety here.

“The new VTB Stadium and Arena includes the redevelopment of the existing Dynamo Moscow stadium and its surrounding historic park. The entire development of the VTB Stadium and Arena Park is thought to be one of the largest projects that will be developed in the Russian Federation in the coming years. It will be a host venue for Russia’s FIFA 2018 World Cup.

The existing Dynamo Moscow stadium is located at Petrovsky Park in the heart of Moscow, a site that has a rich history that goes back to the year 1782, when Catherina the Great ordered the construction of the Petrovsky Palace. The groundbreaking new design by MANICA Architecture integrates two levels of commercial retail within the historic walls of the old stadium and locates both the outdoor football stadium and the indoor multi-use arena together above the existing wall and new retail areas. This solution not only preserves the historic perimeter facade of the existing stadium but integrates it functionally and aesthetically into the new development…” [ put in bold by me ]

READ the YouTube description in its entirety here.

WATCH VIDEOS OF WHAT’S ALREADY UNDERWAY…

Report on the reconstruction by ВЕСТИ (VESTI news group)

Dynamo Stadium. The Beginning of Reconstruction

More links:
READ: Dynamo Stadium Wikipedia entry Russian / English
READ: Moscow Dynamo stadium to undergo reconstruction
READ: Andrey Kostin discusses VTB Arena Park project with Sergey Sobyanin
READ: History of Dynamo Stadium (Russian)
READ: Komsomolskaya Pravda’s article (Russian)
PHOTOS: Dynamo Stadium in ruins
PHOTOS: Reconstruction underway
VIDEO: New Dinamo Stadium (TV Channel: RIAN)
VIDEO: Stadium interior in November 2011

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Blueprint

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Natalia

As in any project, details get rearranged depending on materials and financial resources,
not to mention the overall intent of the work… so here’s an updated blueprint with new poster dimensions. Previously envisioned as 30 x 40 inch prints, the posters have been scaled back to 27 x 35 inches. Seems to me just the right size!

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Back to School

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Natalia

A few (favorite!) photos from today’s scanning activities:



“Reconstruction of the monument
of architecture – School No. 518
(style – postconstructivism,
architect Zvezdin I. A., 1935)
was overseen by GLAVMOSSTROEM
in 2002.”

Sadovnicheskaya Embankment 37, B.1

“School 518 is a high school in the historical Balchug area of Moscow, Russia. Designed by Ivan Zvezdin and completed in 1935, it is the only listed postconstructivist memorial building in the city. It was reconstructed between 1999 and 2003 to meet modern safety standards and Zvezdin’s original design, both externally and internally…”
… read more at
School No. 518’s wikipedia entry

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Screens

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Natalia

Getting ready for SILK SCREEN PRINTING:
today I picked up my re-stretched photo resolution screens (305 mesh count).

Thank You Creative Screen Technologies in San Leandro!

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Contact Sheets

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Natalia

Post-production continues, this time in the darkroom: contact sheets!

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Capture to Post

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Natalia

A binder-ful of negatives, this project has moved from capture – to – > post-production.

Below, fresh scans of the NARKOMFIN Building in the cold of December.


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Lissitzky’s Ogonyok

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Natalia

Recently discovered only in 2007, EL LISSITZKY’S only architectural work that made it from paper into a realized form, the OGONYOK PRINTING PLANT in central Moscow,
is in a precarious situation.

^all locked up and forgotten

^underwent suspicious fires

^surrounded by car garages, and now threatened with the excavation of an underground parking lot

^Ogonek is neighbors with the Zhurgaz Residential Cooperative Building (1934),
which is another landmark of avant-garde architecture [right side],
and on the left a new development project is on the rise

^from afar, it looks like just another abandoned, dilapidated building

^behind the Zhurgaz building, a luxury apartment looms high above

^construction of the luxury apartment building threatens both avant-garde landmarks

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Familiar Sights

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Natalia

Familiar sights / sites of avant–garde architecture right in the CENTER of Moscow !

^Lenin Mausoleum

^Arkos Joint Stock Company Building (grey building)

^Ptitsevodsoyuz Headquarters (green building)

^Kremlin Polyclinic

^Mosselprom Headquarters

^Izvestia Headquarters

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