Nick Pereslegin, adviser of the Moscow Heritage Committee:
"Center of Moscow today - is a large office. Center ceased to be residential. Go through the center of the evening - you will find little windows where the light is and the people live. Would be wiser to build offices along the Moscow Ring Road, decentralize the city, create jobs in the suburbs. But the strategy in this respect there. There is a constant migration of people back and forth.
Contemporary architects and designers in the center of Moscow is not needed. All the historical part of Moscow should be declared a monument, and there should work restorers. But even now there is no school, where a trained skilled restorers. It used to be so: if a large firm like the place, on which stands the mansion's history, she could easily be built on the site office. If this is just a beautiful old building, without the status of the monument, then the employer bribes smooth and he can do whatever he wants. If the house passport monument, here was more difficult, but the tacit procedures worked well, and everything depended on the level of the customer. The simplest - "drop" house. The house stood and fell - a natural disaster. With the eviction of tenants used different schemes - someone might threaten, intimidate. Then, when people in different ways evicted, you must obtain a permit for demolition, but it is not easy, if a building - a monument of architecture. Then it was possible to negotiate with the bums ... I'll tell you one story. Several years I worked in a Moscow studio of the designer. Customers came to us from the big firms. The object was to Presnensky Val, a huge car-repair plant. Present, beautiful prompamyatnik, from which Europe would be a speck of dust blew. But the customer wanted to replace it with a shopping complex on half a million square feet of retail space - reteyl, entertainment features, the hotel complex. Customers - people simple, and so we say: «locomotive shed itself, we fall, we have already agreed with the expert. Forty thousand dollars paid ». I can not say that in this situation was to blame for the city. At each address has its own perpetrator - and most of all, I think, to blame the architects. If they were less tractable and more fundamentally, it would have been different. But now the situation is better: only for the year 2008 in the number of newly identified sites included 334 facility. "
M. Nikitskaya, 10
Was: manor wing of the XVIII century.
So: the building depositing into offices
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