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Article: Begging for revolution: will Moscow break free from the imposed taste of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov?(View)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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After more than ten years of rapid growth in the construction service market, Moscow is ready to welcome contemporary architecture. Local professionals have already produced several good quality buildings, but more than 90 per cent of contracts go to architects 'at the helm'--mostly employees of former state-owned design institutes ruled by Soviet-type bosses connected with mayor Yuri Luzhkov. After two big international competitions in 2003 (Mariinsky-II in Saint Petersburg and Moscow Marie), the local architectural community believed for a short time in creative freedom. The last (9 April) meeting of the so-called Public Council, the most important architectural ...