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Welcome to Moscow,
the capital of Russia,
with its impressive metro stations,
its fountains,
shops and statues, and ...................
The Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo
In Russia, a business school flouts the traditional buildings-around-a-green campus organization in favor of a more winter-friendly megastructure.
In the icy outskirts of Moscow lies a massive new complex: one part academic institution, one part alien mother ship. Designed by London- and Berlin-based Adjaye Associates, the Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo, is a 460,000-square-foot mega structure that contains all the usual facets of campus life—classrooms, lecture halls, a cafeteria, and a 660-seat auditorium, among others—in a series of interconnected buildings. In 2006, in conjunction with a state-led, Vladimir Putin–endorsed push to make Moscow a prominent center of world trade, a contingent of Russia’s wealthiest businessmen—including magnate Roman Abramovich, the world’s 53rd richest person—launched the initiative to establish Skolkovo. Four years and $250 million later, a new university had risen.
The central structure is a concrete disc 475 feet in diameter that houses academic and recreational facilities. Entrances and parking are tucked beneath the disc on the ground level, allowing visitors to avoid the cold by driving into a garage-like enclosure. The customary campus green, fine for more temperate climates, is replaced at Skolkovo by “teaching units” that are used for informal gathering and exhibiting student work. Four boxy volumes of varying sizes, clad in a mosaic of colored aluminum-composite panels, sit atop this base.
For pictures and further information, click on the link below.
http://www.archdaily.com/214178/moscow-school-of-management-adjaye-associates-ab-studios/
Our site will offer you some of the most beautiful and famous sights of Moscow. You can find pictures of the best-known and interesting places and a description of their history. Places like the Kremlin, Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral and State Tretyakov Gallery. And there are also pictures of and texts about ordinary life....
(to be continued....)
