Garage moves
 

Center for Contemporary Culture Garage, moved into the territory of the Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Gorky. , Told "Kommersant" director "garage" Anton Belov. A new space center will be located in the hexagonal building, designed by architects Ivan ZHOLTOVSKOGO, Victor and Michael Kokorina Parusnikov.

The building was built in 1923 for the First All-Union agricultural and handicraft industrial exhibition, the prototype of the Soviet Era. It is a complex of six buildings located around a large courtyard. The building is empty from about 1970, at the moment of it, in fact, there were only walls.

To restore the building management of "garage" is planning to create a tandem of Western and Russian architects. Invite hyped stars "garage" is not planning. While appreciated by only the amount of work to restore the historic appearance of the building, the budget, Mr. Belov call it difficult, noting that the amount of investments will become clear only after the geodetic studies and preliminary architectural design. He hoped that the modular nature of the new shelter "Garage" will make a gradual restoration.

Work on the building of "garage" is planning to launch in the summer and autumn. While the center will continue to operate Bahmetevskom garage, built by architect Konstantin Melnikov. Lease agreement Bahmetevskogo garage at the Congress of Jewish communities has been extended several times already, but the center still had to look for a new place. Regarding the "hexagon" "garage" will negotiate with the government of Moscow about the longer-term stays.

Earlier, in the press reported that the structures close to Roman Abramovich, whose girlfriend Daria Zhukova owns the "Garage", interested in investing in Gorky Park. Mr Abramovich's representatives did not confirm this information. But on Wednesday it was announced that the new director of Gorky Park, who succeeded Vyacheslav King, became a State Duma deputy from the party "United Russia" Sergey Kapkov close to Roman Abramovich in the early 2000's.

The fact that the "garage" selected "hex" as a place of crossing, informally discussed a few months ago, but the leadership of the center did not confirm this information, waiting, apparently corresponding to its management of the park.
Valentin Dyakonov
"Kommersant-Online", 17.03.2011