Neutrality Is Decorators’ Favourite Colour,
Middle-level management staff, a great, almost ecological addition to a balanced diet and lifestyle. Even the carbon footprint if it is in a neutral shade less terrible.
Two media information about the investment in an interesting place full of new opportunities. One from December 2021, the other from April 2022 (https://www.dezeen.com/2021/12/24/ges-2-house-of-culture-renzo-piano-building-workshop/; Beaux Arts Magazine n°454 – avril 2022, p. 12)
A noteworthy investment, the first implementation of the Renzo Piano team in Russia.
The building of the power plant supplying the traction network from 1907, built by Vasily Bashkirov thanks to the V-A-C Foundation, turned into a gallery with an atrium with an area of over 1200 square meters called from Russian GES-2 House of Culture (https://v-a-c.org/en/ges2). The same foundation in 2017 opened an art centre in Venice on Zattere (the 18th century palazzo was adapted by "local architect Alessandro Pedron") overlooking the Canale della Giudecca.
In the Moscow power plant, only the old 70-meter brick chimney was replaced with four blue steel tubes. They go well with the pale, high sky. They pay attention as they should. The empire is usually based on columns.
Inside there is a lot of functional neutrality. Reviewers write about the "cathedral of light". Piano himself also does not shy away from temple metaphors.
"Contemporary art is more democratic than classical art, and complex, multifunctional cultural buildings have partially taken the place of temples. And, like temples, they are open to everyone.” He is getting more and more saturated The sacred Our well-designed world. Right next to the new Moscow House of Culture You can see the golden helmets of the white plastered Orthodox Church (Xram of Christ the Savior). Who remembers that The sacred You can also name what is terrifying and for no reason at all?
In one, the Italian architect made a mistake: temples are always someone else's, there are no stray temples. There are no temples that do not establish their own rules, especially when they have just been built.