In the nineteenth century it was practiced to send students-architects after graduation to various cities for practice and work. Thus, Lev Vlodek came to Odessa, literally creating the familiar look of this seaside city. Odessa was lucky with the architects who came here in the XVIII and XIX centuries, attracted by new opportunities and actively …
Category: Architecture
Natalie Dubrovskaya: a three-level apartment project
The object of the designer’s work was the Kiev apartment. A distinctive feature of the apartment was originally high ceilings. The main change that Natalie Dubrovskaya made to the original architectural appearance of the building is an increase in the height of the door and window openings. This strengthened the effect created by high ceilings …
Country house near Kiev from Lauri Brothers
A spacious house outside the city – many dream of it. Architects Lauri Brothers realized their dream and met the expectations of customers, creating a house from scratch. Designers used a lot of natural wood to finish the walls outside and inside. As this is a country house, the theme of wood is relevant. In …
What will the Greek Park in Odessa be like?
The Greek park in Odessa has already been designed, but not yet built. The city authorities plan to complete works on its design and improvement in late 2018. What will it be like? The Greek park is a continuation of the park complex along the main promenade of Odessa. Its territory begins from the authentic …
Autonomous house in the Carpathians by Alexei Breus
The architects of architectural bureau of Alexei Breus try to arrange the building as organically as possible in the landscape. You can say that eventually the house grows out of the earth, like a plant. Particularly interesting is the project “Mushroom House” in the Carpathians near the very beautiful Lake Sinevir and the Natural Park. …
Festival Archikids! -2017 in Kiev
Often, walking around the city, we understand that we do not like some houses or architectural complexes. But what can be changed to make them better, it is difficult for us to say. For several years, Archikids! Children’s architectural festivals have been held all over the world, where experienced architects teach children to give knowledge …
The house among the pines. White with gray by dekorkuznetsov
The last object of designer’s bureau dekorkuznetsov located in Bukovina. This is a house in a pine forest. It fits as much as possible into the natural environment, does not protrude or dominate, quite the contrary: it appears that the forest absorbed the building. The facade of the house is finished with a pine board. …
International CANactions Architectural Festival, summer 2017
The CANactions Architectural Festival was organized this year for tenth time. This is an international festival of urbanism, where participants discuss and consider various issues and problems of the development of urban space from different points of view. This may be the question of the organization of streets in the city, their name, architecture and …
Teatr na podole
The construction of Teatr na podole started back in the 90s and has remained abandoned ever since until recent private initiative has come into play. The newly-proposed renovation project suggests considerable changes to the previous building. Its functional character has undergone significant transformations as the theater has evolved from an exclusive “palace” into an …
Villa in flight. The project “Larus” by Natalia Oleksienko
Ukrainian architect Natalia Oleksienko – head of the architectural studio “Evolutionary architecture.” They work in the style of Contemporary. The main creative idea of the studio is to guess and read the code of the future project, to create comfortable conditions for all tenants of the house. Project Larus is a mansion for a young …