Architecture. Current trends

Domestic experience Today, more than 100 companies (both large and medium-sized) in Russia have implemented or are in the process of implementing the Green Office principles. Successful experience has already been gained by Russian offices of foreign companies: Google, Intel Russia, Upeco, Coca-Cola, 3M, KPMG, Courtyard by Marriott Moscow City Center, Ernst&Young, VFS Global (joint service and visa centers). Russian companies, including M.Video, SPLAT, Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and...

New ways of life have brought about changes in the forms of settlement and have manifested themselves, above all, in the development of cities. With the gradual concentration of industry and the increase in the number of inhabitants, the structural change in the basic functions of cities takes place. The era of classicism came at a very important time in European urban planning. At that time, not only residential units, but also non-residential objects and public places requiring architectural design were being laid in masses: hospitals, museums, schools, parks, etc...

The most pressing issue is the issue of high-rise buildings in the world and the scale of skyscrapers construction is expanding. The history of high-rise construction in New York begins at the end of the 19th century, in the period when the center of high-rise buildings construction from Chicago passed. During this period the time of formation is formed, when the main schemes of skyscraper construction are revealed. The Chicago school made a great contribution to the development of high-rise construction...

The preconditions for the architecture of high-rise buildings in New York were the development of industrial production and its concentration as a complex control system. This has resulted in the creation of a new level of business buildings. Creation and implementation of the concept of high-rise buildings, as well as the emergence and use of the term "skyscraper" began with the construction of the New York World Building in 1890. At that time, it was the first building to exceed the height and meet the requirements of the concept of "skyscraper"...

The urban centers of medieval cities had common features, typical of all European cities, which, however, did not exclude a huge variety of architectural and spatial solutions. In the center of the city there was a square, the architectural design of which was made up of closed rows of houses with forceps roofs and contrasting monumental volumes of city churches and town hall. This gave the square a closed character, as well as a variety of compartments. The dominating position in the square and in the city as a whole has always been occupied by the city cathedral...