New football stadium project - GUP MNIIP “MOSPROEKT-4”

The architectural design proposes the creation of a new modern football arena which will preserve the main idea of the architect Nikolsky: a multi-level hill with atria, pavilions and cascade stairs.


The shape of the above-hill stadium (cone truncated by a slanted plane) reproduces the existing stadium cup with an increased height of the western stand. The shape of the stadium resembles a ship moving towards the Gulf of Finland. The upper level of the stadium is partially open, forming a gap on the eastern side in the direction of the main entrance and the Central Alley. Thus, the stadium space resembles a theater with spectators moving up the hill and then finding themselves on a stage of a giant amphitheater, situated in unique natural surroundings.
From the Central Alley the hill forms the dominant view of which the stadium’s transparent roof is a continuation directing the viewer’s attention to the sky. From the sea, the stadium appears as a huge, moving, dynamic ship.


Stadium capacity: 62.000 seats
Construction cost: 197.777.360 USD
Stadium height: 74.6m
Capacity of parking place: 5 200, including:
covered parking on stadium territory – 800
open air parking on stadium territory – 1400
New objects in the adjacent area:
 3.000 capacity parking
 2 training fields
 New “Neva Ring” track


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WA Community starts a new section

If you are interested in architecture and (or) promotion you are supposed to know WA Community Directory
Today Jonathan Budd sent me a letter:

We have decided to start a new section where scholars and academics can share their personal courseware (PowerPoint Presentations, Videos, Lecture Notes,..) with all humanity. What good is a true word if not spread infinitely?

The idea came from some Honorary Members who offered their videos to be freely downloaded from WA Portal.

Consequently we began to prepare full version presentations of the Winner projects for each quarterly cycle accompanied with full description files of each project. And here they are...

Please invite all scholars to download them for special lectures to inform their students about contemporary trends in architecture by discussing selected examples. More will soon follow.

And you can send to WA editors Ophelia Fletcher and Celine Dupret your own files and documents so that we can offer them in this section to a worldwide audience!

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Project “Golden Eye” - New football stadium, Krestovski Island, Saint-Petersburg

This architectural competition took part a few years ago, so I already have made some publications & even write the large article about Krestovski stadium & in particular projects of the new arena. Therefore now I'm going to publish only some renders & short project descriptions starting from “Golden Eye” (project design by Lenniiproject)
Short project description:The main idea – creation of a multifunctional sporting complex and active development of the surrounding territory.
Transparency is the main project theme. Things that occur within the stadium can be seen from the outside and those within the stadium have a wonderful view of the surroundings.
The circle is the most classical of shapes. The moldability of the stadium is due to the interaction between the wave designs of the upper and lower cups which connect at four points. Due to the wave design, four “Golden Eyes” are created through which spectators can view the surrounding area and, additionally, those situated outside can see what occurs within.
Stadium height: 70m
Capacity of parking place: 2800 – open air, VIP – underground parking, optional 1600 in Level -1
New objects in the adjacent area:
New “Neva Ring” track,
Multifunctional sporting complex:
 Swimming pool (50m)
 Covered skating rink
 2 playing rooms
 Athletics arena with football ground
 Training football ground
 7 open sporting grounds


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Introducing "Architecture & advertisement"

Well, here we go. I was waiting too long to create this blog. The main reason is my poor English, but there were some other circumstances: to tell you the truth I' m very buzy because of I have a large architectural site in Russian with a lot of visitors, questions , updates & so on. Later on maybe I'll show it. But maybe not. For now it doesn't matter: I'm going to publish some articles in English & all of them where never published at my own site.
I also want to share my thoughts about advertisement - in Russia & not only in Russia. You see I can't do it in my site because it is devoted to architectural & interior design only. I don't want to do it in Russian because I'm going to tell you things which are not always sweet. So probably somebody would ask me - who are you to comment arhitectural projects & who the hell are you to write about advertisement. Here is the short answer: I'm a writer, editor & site owner. I used to write as art critic but at the same time I wrote a lot of advertisement articles. Not only for money: I found it interesting & feel myself inspired when my work was successful & disappointed when it wasn't. I think now I do know why. If you are interested you are welcome to visit my blog next time. If you are not - thank you for your attention.

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