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Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival | MAR 1SEPT 1, 2019, Exhibition for the XXII Triennale di Milano, The Moscow River Age explores the human-river relationship and presents a timeline of stories between 1919 and 2119. The narrative is polyphonic. Many voices come together to reveal how the river and the people who live near it influence each other in multiple ways, and how deeply their lives are intertwined. "Kaplya" Alexandra Pavlova monograph. Alexandra Pavlova was one of the founders of the Meganom office for architecture. The word "Kaplya" is Alexandras "nom de guerre" and a title of her monograph. Kaplyas best architectural and artistic projects, from conceptual installations to implemented buildings, are published in this book. The book is available at bookshops and online. The cornerstone for the new storage vaults of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts was laid on September 9. The project Rhizosphere unifies and protects the museum grounds while opening their perimeter. Eventually over 700,000 objects will move into the new open storage, where many of them will be visible to visitors. For their final projects at the Moscow Architectural Institute, our studio students proposed research strategies aimed at creating a new and open Moscow. Their conceptual tools included preservation, shrinkage, and temporary building, multiplicities of use, to planned ruins and the reanimation of public space. This variety was aligned to the need for new visions of the city and an open relationship with its citizens. The recovery has begun. Soon enough, 50,000 new residents will animate the former ZIL industrial site, a uniquely sited opportunity for a project in Moscow to give priority to public interests and set a new standard for urban development. Networked public spaces, parks, and infrastructure for new creative endeavours will restore the peninsula to a site of energetic production. Phase 1 is now under construction. Participation in this competition is Meganoms contribution to the historical ...