Moscow will build the first public park in 50 years

A u.s. architectural firm won the tender for the construction of Zaryadye Park, the first public park that will be born in Moscow in the last 50 years.

Located near red square, the Zaryadye, with 129.5 thousand square meters, is part of Vladimir Putin's plan to "project a new image of Moscow and of Russia to the world", refers to the Inhabitat.

The Zaryadye will rise on the site where once located the Hotel Rossiya, a Soviet-era architectural concept, which was demolished in 2006. The name, Zaryadye, is a tribute to the neighborhood that existed at that location and that in the Decade of 1960 has just been demolished for the construction of the Hotel Rossiya.

The Park, which will cost €148,8 million (R$465,3 million), will revitalize the downtown Moscow. The architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the chassis that won the contest, projected a hybrid landscape, through the principles of "savage urbanism". The Zaryadye will be divided into four parts, representing the various climatic zones that can be found in Russia: tundra, marshes, steppe and forest.

Through the combination of historical artifacts, like the Kremlin-style gardens, with modern sustainable technologies, including artificial microclimates systems, the Zaryadye Park aims to capture the relationship between the culture, history, landscape and urban architecture of Moscow.

It is foreseen that the construction of Zaryadye start at the end of 2014 and takes between two to three years to be completed.

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