From October 14 to November 22, 2019, Arena Plaza Shopping Center (the first level of the complex “VTB Arena – Central Dynamo Stadium” hosts an exhibition of participants in the annual architecture competition “Moscow Through the Eyes of Young Town Planners 2019”, the aim of which is to help would-be architects to prove themselves.
There are four nominations:
The third stage of the competition will take place at Arena Plaza Shopping Center, where the students of construction colleges, architecture and construction universities and architecture schools will present their mock-ups.
Visitors will have an opportunity to see a complex of mock-up building views, which could be the part of the capital: ecozones for life and recreation, futuristic structures of the future and renovated existing urban facilities. According to the competition rules, the participants shall not only present their unique vision of the city, but also organically integrate it into the already existing rich architecture tradition of Moscow.
The originality and quality of works will be assessed by the professional jury: Sergey Levkin, Head of the Department of Urban Development Policy of Moscow, Andrey Luntovsky, General Director of MC “Dynamo”, Elizaveta Likhacheva, Director of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Alexandr Bobykin, architect, President of the International Public Association “Association of Designers”, Anton Nadtochy and Vera Butko, architects and founders of Atrium architectural studio, and others.
In addition to the competition commission, everyone will be able to vote for any layout on the official website of the competition www.dgp-maket.ru, via Stroimprosto mobile application or directly at Arena Plaza Shopping Center.
The competition winners will receive grants for traineeship in large companies and design organizations, certificates for specialized training and other valuable prizes.
Andrey Luntovsky, General Director of MC “Dynamo”, developer of VTB Arena Park project, which includes Arena Plaza Shopping Center, remarked: “VTB Arena – Central Dynamo Stadium is both an architectural monument and unique architectural structure accommodating football and hockey arenas, shopping center and parking under one roof. Therefore, holding one of the final stages of the competition here, at Arena Plaza Shopping Center, perfectly matches the competition concept: to identify new architectural forms and harmoniously integrate them into the historical component of the capital.”