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Moscow's iconic Shukhov Tower added to World Monuments Fund Watch List

2016-03-21T13:32:00-04:00

The Shukhov Tower, a 1920s broadcast transmission tower in Moscow that is a landmark of modernist structural engineering, has been placed on the 2016 World Monuments Fund Watch list of endangered global cultural heritage sites. Activists in Moscow organized two days of events over the weekend to observe the tower’s 94th birthday [...] At a Kremlin meeting last December, Mr. Putin praised activists for rallying to save cultural heritage sites and dressed down officials for not doing enough.

The Shukhov Tower, also known as Shabolovka Tower, previously in the Archinect news:

Russia's Shukhov Tower is saved following a 91% smartphone vote in favor of keeping it

2014-09-03T15:07:00-04:00

... the 92-year-old structure had fallen into disrepair since it stopped transmitting TV signals in 2002. Plans to dismantle and relocate the tower were announced earlier this year, prompting Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas and other architects to petition Vladimir Putin to save it. Moscow's city council has now announced that the tower will be preserved at its current site.

Moscow Puts Iconic Shukhov Tower on Protected Landmark List

2014-08-19T13:33:00-04:00

Moscow City Hall has formally prohibited the moving or reassembly of a Soviet architectural landmark that has been under threat of demolition blamed by conservationists on real estate developers. [...] The radio tower's materials, architectural composition, structural elements and location all fall under the conservation order by City Hall's heritage department, published by Consultant.ru judicial database. This puts an end to earlier proposals to move or dismantle and rebuild the tower.

Previously:

Muscovites are voting by smartphone on whether to demolish a beloved modernist landmark

2014-06-27T12:56:00-04:00

The Moscow city government is asking citizens to weigh in on the fate of the Shukhov radio tower, a rusted icon of Soviet constructivist architecture that’s threatened with demolition. [...] The vote, which began this week and runs until July 6, is being held on Active Citizen, an iOS and Android app released by the city last month. The app polls citizens on topics such as street-tree planting and changes to daylight savings time.

UPDATE: Moscow Puts Iconic Shukhov Tower on Protected Landmark List

Previously: Architects Try to Save a Tower in Moscow

Editor's Picks #359

2014-03-19T12:34:00-04:00

The latest edition of ShowCase: featured Casa H by Bojaus Arquitectura. Located in a typical suburban area near Madrid, the proximity of the houses that surround the plot lead Bojaus Arquitectura to develop a system of voids, deep windows and patios which would allow large openings without neglecting the equally important need of privacy.

Plus, the tenth edition of Screen/Print: highlighted: "Utopia" published by Zawia a multi-national collaboration based in Egypt. Specifically, Amale Andraos’ piece, "Visionary Urbanism and Its Agency" which dissects five myths long associated with a concept she calls "Visionary Urbanism".

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) have committed themselves to timely passage of the National Design Services Act (NDSA), which will give architecture students the same relief from crushing student loan debt, which is already granted young lawyers, doctors and others – in return for community...

Architects Try to Save a Tower in Moscow

2014-03-17T14:39:00-04:00

One of the great feats of 20th-century engineering, a landmark of modernist architecture is facing demolition. Late last month, the Russian State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting agreed to the dismantling of the Shabolovka radio tower in Moscow. This is the Eiffel Tower of Russia, a 50-story conical structure of steel latticework, shaped roughly like a collapsing telescope, designed by the engineer Vladimir Shukhov.

UPDATE: Moscow Puts Iconic Shukhov Tower on Protected Landmark List