The participants of the exhibition will be Architectural Workshops, forming part of Architectural Workshops Association (AWA), invited architecture studios. Special section will narrate about Non-Commercial Partnership "The Guild of Architects and Engineers of Petersburg", which includes 126 engineering companies. Historical section is devoted to the personality and creative work of the architect L.V. Rudnev (1885-1956).

Architectural union "SPEECH Tchoban&Kuznetsov", as an invited bureau, will represent a number of its projects, the building of which was recently finished: Moscow buildings – residential complex "Granatny, 6" («Гранатный, 6») and the office of the company "Novatech" (компания «Новатэк») on Leninsky Prospect (Ленинский проспект), as well as Berlin design-hotel NHow.

Educational program includes lectures of leading Russian and foreign architects, presentations of architectural publications, video films demonstrations. In 2011 auditory focus is on the Northern Europe architecture.

Lectures are given and works are presented by:
Saint-Petersburg
Svyatoslav Gaikovich, Yevgeny Gerasimov, Vladimir Mamoshin, Sergey Oreshkin, Oleg Romanov, Vyacheslav Uhov, Nikita Yavein
Moscow
Yuri Grigoryan, Boris Levyant, Victor Logvinov, Vladimir Plotkin
Norway
Ulle Gustavsen, Yorn Naryud
Denmark
Kai-Uve Bergmann
Germany
Stephan Benish
Finland
Pia Ilonen and Minna Lukander

Biennale movie program includes: films about contemporary architecture of Holland and China, about creative work of the stars of foreign architecture – Norman Foster, Zahi Halid and others.

Exhibition Contractors:
AWA - НNon-Commercial Partnership "Architectural Workshops Association", founded in 2000. It incorporates nineteen boutiques, publishes the almanac "Architectural Almanac of Saint-Petersburg".
Phone: (812) 571 45 57
Fund "PRO ARTE". Petersburg welfare fund of culture and art "PRO ARTE" was founded in 1999. The fund organizes lectures, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, concerts and festivals. The program on contemporary architecture was started in 2004, since then by invitation of the Fund more than 70 Russian and foreign architects came out with lectures in Saint-Petersburg, more than 20 architectural exhibitions and conferences have been held.
www.proarte.ru, (812) 233 0553, 233 0040
Exhibition movie program was prepared with the participation of TV-channel "Kultura" and Contemporary Architecture Centre, Moscow. Lectures program is performed with the assistance of the Kingdom of Norway Consulate General in Saint-Petersburg, the Royal Consulate General of Denmark in Saint-Petersburg, Danish Institute of Culture and German Goethe Cultural Centre in Saint-Petersburg.
Venue: Marble Hall of Russian Ethnographic Museum (www.ethnomuseum.ru), Inzhenernaya Street, 4/1, Saint-Petersburg
April, 19-24, 2011
The exhibition works daily from 10.00 am till 20.00 pm, open to the public
Exhibition opening on Tuesday, April, 19, at 17.00 pm.

International investment forum in Cannes is the hugest specialized exhibition where representatives of state and private structures, investors and developers from all over the world present the brightest projects in the sphere of commercial real estate. In MIPIM the transactions for millions of dollars are being concluded, partners and clients are being found, the new trends of real estate market for the coming years are determined.

Architectural workshop SPEECH Tchoban&Kuznetsov got the invitation this year to present its new projects in two show-floors: stand of the Government of Moscow and stand of Krasnodar Territory.

Exposition presenting the best capital projects includes two buildings: multifunctional business center of “Novatek” company in Leninsky avenue and premium residential complex “Granatniy, 6”. Both structures have already deserved recognition and have become symbolic for its Moscow real estate market segment. “Novatek” center was built according to European standards of energy-efficient design and it may become one of the first business centers in Moscow officially certified by LEED system. Residential complex “Granatniy,6” notable for really exquisite facade decoration and having no analogues in modern Russian architecture is recognized to be “The most discussed project of the year” in Urban Awards-2010 and is in the number of ten most sold objects of De-Luxe category.

On the stand of Krasnodar Territory will be demonstrated several projects developed in the workshop SPEECH Tchoban&Kuznetsov within the program of preparation to Winter Olympiad Sochi-2014. This is the main media center of the Olympiad and complex of buildings for accommodation of mass media representatives for 4200 rooms. Both projects provide reorientation of constructed buildings into shopping and entertainment center and residential quarter for inhabitants of Sochi accordingly after the termination of Olympiad. On the 8th of March, on the first day of the work of the exhibition MIPIM-2011 Sergey Kuznetsov, the managing partner of the workshop SPEECH Tchoban&Kuznetsov will conduct the detailed presentation of the best projects of the bureau created recently. They include not only separate buildings of various purpose but also large town-planning projects presenting the perspective developments of the bureau that practically demonstrates the possibility to design and construct in Russia with the quality conforming world-wide standards.

And the new issue completely satisfied all expectations. Only the list of architects’ names whose buildings were included in the selected “collection” impresses by its dignity and absolute authority in the architectural groups of Russia and the worlds: Richard Meier, Andrey Chernikhov, David Adjaye, Anton Nadtochiy and Vera Butko, Davia Chipperfield, Mekanoo, BuroMoscow, Jean Nouvel, Mattias Sauerbruch, Will Alsop. The last became the hero of the issue being represented personally in the heading “Portrait” and by his works in the heading “Gallery”. The natural continuation of these publications became invitation of Will Alsop to read a small lecture of his color perception and its importance in the work on pictorial canvases and architectural projects during the presentation of the sixth issue of speech magazine. Such combination: topic of color in architecture and lecture of Will Alsop made this presentation one of the most noticeable events of winter social season of architectural Moscow coming to an end. A lot of quests visited the presentation as usual. Almost 300 persons risked to break through unusual Moscow February frost.

The heads of large enterprises and developers cooperating with SPEECH Tschoban/Kuznetsov bureau or being advertisers of speech magazine, partners and friends, mass media representatives, notable Russian architectures and young people, students and architects-beginners: all who were invited by the organizers of the evening personally or who could use the registration form in the bureau web site spend evening with pleasure, listening to the lecture of Will Alsop sparkling as usual and deservedly appreciating delicious dishes prepared for the gueats of the presentation by the company “Teatro del Gusto”.

The general partner of the sixth number:


The general partners presentation sixth issue:


Partners presentation sixth issue:

Upon an initiative of Sergey Kuznetsov and Eelena Bazhenova the head of the department of “Architectural practice” of Moscow Architectural Institute, Vice-president of the Union of Moscow architects, member of the board of the Union of architects of Russia the bureau SPEECH initiates the program that intends active participation of the architects-practicians. The heads of the leading architectural workshops in the educational process of the students. The cause for it became permanent problem with the level of practical training of the alumni of the specialized university and their not sufficient knowledge of the real situation as well as of those functions and tasks they will have to solve in fact. Illusion that alumnus is able to make architecture and its ensuing consequences turn into the long adaptation period and kind of reeducation of former students in the structure of the company. This period of “coaching” of the novices burdensome for any office working under constant time pressure and high requirements to the quality of the work of every employee may be minimized by means more productive education process in the university. In the opinion of Sergey Kuznetsov and Eelena Bazhenova to change the situation it is necessary to set the partnership relations between the university and companies interested in the recruitment of well prepared young specialists. The forms of partnership may be various: lectures, excursions in the bureaus and to construction plans, regular traineeships and “workshops” under the guidance of the architects-practicians. On the 8th of December Sergey Kuznetsov read a first lecture in the amphitheater of Moscow Architectural Institute. More than two hours Sergey communicated with the students telling them in details about the private experience of entering in the profession; about the toughest moments on the way of creating of his own bureau; about the present realities of the project business and the difficulties the present student who decided sooner or later achieve the success in the chosen profession should be ready for.

In her presentation, editor in chief of Internet portal www.officenext.ru, Marina Glushatova, noted the similarity of new concepts of an open office space, developed by big companies, such as Vitra, BENE, Haworth, Koenig Neurath, Sedus. The essence of the trend, identified as "office-city", is that instead of a rigid workplace people have an opportunity to select an office zone, which is great suited for a particular task. The significance of hierarchy in such offices takes second place, much attention is paid to teamwork.

This explains the appearance of various furniture for communications. The leading theme of the exhibition were fast changing modular solutions for public spaces that can be easily adapted to different projects. Another clear tendency was to create areas for private conversations and intimate work with sofas and chairs with high back.

As the trends have been noted Orgatec closer integration of employment with storage, a variety of solutions to improve the acoustics, the development of themes embedded multimedia equipment for meetings. The final part of the review presentations were the most interesting and promising innovations. Leading experts in office furniture market continued the exhibition discussion.

Vlad Ivanovski, the head of VITRA company, spoke in detail about the sign of a novelty - the family armchairs ID Chair, created by famous Antonio Citterio. The armchairs in this series are possessed by functional properties, but they have recognizable elements that provide an aesthetic unity and integrity of the interior of the office.

Salavat Timiryasov, the president of Solo Office Interiors, presented his point of view as an independent dealer at the Orgatec 2010 by conducting a comparative analysis of American, British, Italian and German markets for office furniture. Among the trends show, he mentioned the focus of attention of the producers from the workstations to the furniture for the areas of communication is shifting.

Sergei Golyashkin, the CEO of BÜROMÖBEL RUS, emphasized the leading role of German furniture companies in the segment office furniture and cited the data of independent publication Markt Intern from studies of large German producers.

Sergei Konnov, the managing partner the ProjectNEXT and the OfficeNEXT, considered the world's global processes, affecting the working conditions. The ability to work remotely, the outsourcing development, the trend of the transition from individual to team work in open space conditions. An innovative look at the zoning of open space has been illustrated by the example of the implemented project non-territorial office CISCO Stuttgart.

Business Breakfast was held under the support of VITRA , Solo Office Interiors and BÜROMÖBEL RUS.

Informational partners of the event were magazines Speech: and Project Russia.

For the detailed report on the event, please, visit the website www.officenext.ru