The New Yorker architects Cushman & Wakefield in collaboration with the architectural design firm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, engineer Buro Happold, cost consultant Rider Levett Bucknall & place makers Fourth Street won the first prize for the “Park Russia” competition in Moscow, Russia. The winning proposal converts 1,000 hectares of land near Domodedovo airport, 30km south of Moscow, into a cultural legacy park forwarding the country’s history while simultaneously showing the three prime axes of the park. It provides opportunities for investment in leisure projects and transforms this oasis into a ‘strong tourism resort destination’ for residential guests.
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Gillespies partner Jim Diggle says that the “Park Russia embraces innovative sustainable design, with best practice green principles enshrined in the masterplan and major constituent design components such as buildings, landscape and supporting infrastructure”. Additionally the project leader Richard Tibbott, from Cushman & Wakefield Russia insists that ‘a uniquely Russian leisure park responding to Russian consumer desires for imaginative leisure and cultural development and creating a major new destination for the rapidly growing Russian visitor economy’. It will, he adds, ‘be a credible comparator to Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay and eventually to the parks at Orlando, Florida’.
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By Depy Charalampidou
