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Senior Principal Gavin McMillan at the International Cultural Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia
Hargreaves Associates’ Senior Principal Gavin McMillan took part in a panel at the International Cultural Forum St. Petersburg along with architects Pierre De Meuron, Asif Khan, Vladimir Plotkin, and Nikita Yaveyn.
Gavin spoke about how the staging of major sporting and cultural events with their regional planning focus, concentration of resources, and unmovable deadlines can also be leveraged to repair lost ecologies and to make new ecologies to bring Nature back into our cities and our lives. Both the Sydney Olympic Park and the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park convey the capacity for landscape architecture to bring new life, energy and vitality into neglected regions and to orchestrate powerful urban landscapes.
Zaryadye Park featured in ELLE Decor Italia
Article written by Giovanni Carli, published on July 19, 2018
ELLE Decor Italia, a magazine that focuses on home decor, published an article on Zaryadye Park, identifying it as the cultural hub of the city of Moscow. The article digs into the culture of Russia and how the nation’s fascination in “doing things big” harmonizes with the size of Zaryadye, as well as the multiple levels of identity that the park provides. Charles Renfro, one of its designers, remarked, “Zaryadye is a public space that resists any type of categorization; it is at the same time a park, an urban suare, a public space, a cultural space and a recreational space.”
The New York Times on Zaryadye – In Moscow’s Newest Park, All of Russia Comes Together
“The park should describe the Russian soul. A place where you can hide and where you can also see everything around you.” – Petr Kudryavtsev, Partner at Citymakers
The architects behind New York’s High Line have created a new urban space that reflects the diversity of Russia’s regional landscapes. Zaryadye defies the norms of a “formal park” in Russia by providing space where anyone can walk in any direction and people could gather, with the central design principle of “urbanity gives up to nature.”
Mary Margaret Jones of Hargreaves Associates digs deeper into this design principle that was an unusual one for Russia: “When you look at landscape in Russian fairy tales and literature, you see that nature is outside of the city and something ‘other.’ ”
Unusual or not, the impact of Zaryadye Park is clear; the park has been a huge success, being visited to by over 9.5 million people.
Wall Street Journal calls Zaryadye Park “The Most Ambitious Park in Russia”
“Grafting interactive culture onto wilder urban landscapes, Zaryadye Park in Moscow aspires to be the emblematic park of the 21st century.”
The Wall Street Journal features an article on Zaryadye Park written by Julie V. Iovine – an architecture reviewer for The Journal. In this article, this digitally interactive and sustainable park is not only described as an “advertisement for the beauties of Russia’s luscious landscape” but also as a “clear indication of Moscow’s broader ambition to be seen by the world as an enlightened developer of urban infrastructure.”
From the Glass Canopy to a parking lot for over 400 cars beneath the park, Zaryadye Park “goes all out with inventive twists at every botanical, technological and educational turn.”
Zaryadye Park included in Dezeen Awards longlist
Among 3,689 entries from 91 different countries, Zaryadye Park has made it onto Dezeen’s longlist under the “Civic and Cultural Building” category. The project has been passed onto Dezeen Award’s panel of leading industry figures to decide on the shortlist and ultimately, the winner for each category.
Dezeen Awards is an annual awards program with the goal of identifying the world’s best architecture, interiors and design, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers producing the most outstanding work. Organised by Dezeen, the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design website, Dezeen Awards will be the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.
Mary Margaret Jones to Feature in Two of Moscow Urban Forum’s Panels
On July 17, 2018, Moscow Urban Forum will present the following two panels:
Zaryadye as a Model. Strategic Choices to Consider in the Redevelopment of the City Centre
Climate Action in Megacities. From Technogenic Landscape to Sustainable Environment
Moscow Urban Forum (MUF) is an international forum about urbanization issues held annually in Moscow under the auspices of the city government. MUF serves as a platform for open dialogue for the people, from government representatives to the citizens of Moscow, in which discussions about architecture, urban planning, real estate, and more are taken place.
Mary Margaret Jones, Senior Principal and President of Hargreaves Associates, will be speaking in both of these panels, in which the topics of the redevelopment of Zaryade Park and the responses to climate change will be discussed in depth.
For more detail, click on the links to each panel embedded above.
Click here for Moscow Urban Forum
Click here for Mary Margaret Jones’s profile on Moscow Urban Forum
Crescent Park featured on Landscape Architecture Magazine
An article on Crescent Park titled “The Old and the Neutral” by John King, Honorary ASLA, was featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine July 2018 / Vol. 108 No. 7, mainly focusing on how the New Orleans park shows ambitions meeting reality. From the Mandeville Wharf to the granite benches, King describes how Hargreaves Associates weaves the hopeful future into the industrial past of the 20-acre waterfront park.
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