1. 1
журнал об архитектуре и дизайне финляндии,
эстонии, литвы, латвии и северо-запада россии
review of architecture and design from finland,
estonia, latvia, lithuania, and north-west russia
2012
year report
2. 2
Issues of the magazine published in 2012
04/11 01/12 North
- Aleksandr Rappaport on style and substance
- Timo Keinanen. From national to global
- Eight Eights on the shores of the Baltic
- Discussion: cultural capitalism
02/12 Self-organization
- Sergey Sitar on self-organization in politics,
science, and architecture
- The Newly Drawn generation
- Linnalabor: positive urbanism in Tallinn
- Discussion: St Petersburg and Muscovy
03/12 Motion
- Vukan Vuchic on livable cities
- The new metro line in Helsinki
- Toomas Paaver on transporting private spaces
- Kjetil Thorsen (Snohetta) on crafting the
process
3. 3
Events in 2012 / February, March
16.02
Round table discussion “Energy efficiency and ecological
compatibility in designing and construction: Western experience and
implementation of the international standards in Russia”
Moderator: Alexey Dementjev
Participants: Jukka Tikkanen, Sergei Tsytsin, Vyacheslav Ukhov, Jorn Frenzel, Vladimir
Frolov, Evgeny Bogdanov (RUMPU project bureau), Peter Kuznetsov (CEO in “Konfident”),
Lev Margolin, Anastasia Kozlova, Alexander Bobkov, Vladimir Antonov.
Partner: RUMPU. St.Petersburg
15.03
Helsinki – World Design Capital / NEWLY DRAWN
Lecture by architect Antti Nousjoki (one of the founders and director of the Finnish
architectural bureau ALA) on the project “Helsinki – World Design Capital”; short film
about contemporary Finnish architecture and work of the “Newly Drawn association”
With the support of the Embassy of Finland in Moscow
Partner: Martela company, Moscow
4. 4
Events in 2012 March /April
11.04
As part of the lecture program of Project Baltia magazine Magnus
Mansson (head of the Swedish bureau Semren & Mansson which
opened its office in St.Petersburg) gave a speech on April 11, 2012.
The event was held in salon IK Style and was supports by the Italian factory Ar.Ce.A
Ceramiche and the Consulate General of Sweden in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg
22.03
Seminar “Mid-scale architecture. The future of the pyatietazhka
(five-storey building) as a building type”
Participants: architects Pentti Kareoja, Vladimir Linov, Mariya Timofeeva, and Yelena
Mironova
Partner: KNAUF
St.Petersburg
5. 5
Events in 2012 / April
12.04
Opening of the exhibition “Light and architecture”
Among the participants of the exhibition were the leading architects and designers of St.Peterburg (Vitruvio and Sons, Anton Gorlanov,
Daniil Zeiman, Alexey Levchuk, MK-interio and others)
Organizers: Project Baltia magazine and PROSVET studio
6. 6
Events in 2012 / May
24.05
Opening of the “Nordic ID” exhibition during the III Moscow biennale of architecture
Leaders of the program: Vladimir Frolov and Ylva Frid
Curators:
TuomasToivonen / architect studio NOW (Finland)
VillemTomiste / architect, Stuudio Tallinn (Estonia)
Anders Melsom / editor Conditions magazine (Norway)
Martin Keiding / editor – in-chief Arkitekten (Denmark)
Daniel Golling / editor-in-chief Form magazine (Sweden)
Organizer: Project Baltia magazine with support of the Nordic Culture Point, the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow and the
Embassy of Norway in Moscow
Round table discussion ‘St Petersburg. Identity of a city. Identity of a country’
Participants: artist Alexander Dashevsky, architects Sergey Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, Mikhail Filippov, Vladimir
Zakharevsky (CEO in Megapolis Property Management).
Moscow
7. 7
Events in 2012 / June
27.06
Opening of the ‘Nordic ID’ exhibition at the Ioannovsky Bastion of the Peter
and Paul Fortress
Partner: YIT St.Petersburg, Confident, RUMPU, Hunter Douglas, IK Style
St.Petersburg
8. 8
Events in 2012 / May
17.05
‘City shorelines’ panel discussion was held in the ‘Pavilion’,
Helsinki, as part of the ‘Helsinki – world design capital’
Organizer: Project Baltia magazine
Among the participants were Evgenia Murinets (Moscow), Pekka Helin (Helsinki),
Toomas Paaver (Tallinn)
Helsinki
18.05
Opening of the ‘Eight Eights’ exhibition at the House of Architects
Association of Lithuania in Vilnius
Organizer: Project Baltia magazine and BLOCK CITY INSTITUTE
With support of the Danish Cultural Institute
Vilnius
9. 9
Events in 2012 / July
3.07
Summarizing the results of the invited international competition for a
concept, master plan, and design proposal for buildings in Khersonskaya
ul. 43/12, St.Petersburg
Client: O2 Development
St.Petersburg
03.07
Lecture by architect Janne Terasvirta (ALA studio) and the
presentation of the 16th issue of Project Baltia magazine ‘Self-
organization’ in the Loft Project ETAGI
St.Petersburg
10. 10
Events in 2012 / September
12.09
International conference “Architecture and motion: city, transport and environment” and show
of the ‘Eight eights’ exposition as part of the V A.City forum for Urban planning, architecture and
design and the 16th international building and interiors exhibition ‘BalticBuild’
Participants: Vukan Vuchic, Nikita Yavein (studio 44), Panu Lehtovuori (Finland), Pieter Schipper (Scolkovo), Alexander
Karpov, Sergei Gunin.
Partner: Knauf Industries
St.Petersburg
11. 11
Events in 2012 / October
01.10
Conference ‘Historical environment and modern urban facilities: search for harmonious and
effective ways of development of the old cities in the XXI century’
Participants: architects Oleg Drozdov and Alexey Levchuk, Senior Fellow of the NCCA Nizhny Novgorod Marina Ignatushko,
architects from B210 studio (Tallinn), head of the master plan department of ‘Pskovgrazdanproekt’ Irina Smirnova
Organizer: Project Baltia magazine, State committee on tourism, investment and spatial development of the Pskov region.
Partner: Multilight, DSK
Pskov
12. 12
Events in 2012 / October
11.10
Lection by Sergey Tchoban on the sport architecture by the ‘SPEECH Tchoban and Kuznetsov’
Partner: Knauf
St.Petersburg
13. 13
Events in 2012 / October
17.10
International seminar ‘Strategy of water. SPA centers as architectural typology of the XXI
century’
Participants: architect and urbanist Jörn Frenzel, architects Ilya Kordochkin and Dmitri Ugolkov
Partner: Mauer Buro
Petrozavodsk
14. 14
Events in 2012 / October, November
31.10
‘Dynamics in architecture’. Lecture by Anton Nadtochy and Vera
Butko, heads of ‘Atrium’ bureau, Moscow
Organizer: Project Baltia magazine
With support of Armstrong company
St.Petersburg
19.11
Exhibition ‘Nordic ID - contemporary Nordic Architecture’ opened in
design and architecture center DOGA in Oslo
Organizer: Norsk Form
Oslo
15. 15
Events in 2012 / December
4.12
International conference ‘City shorelines’
Participants: Ricardo Bofill Jr., Alla Bogatireva, Toomas Paaver (Estonia), Katarina Surakka (Finland), Alexey Skripitsin and
Evgeny Frolov (Petrozavodsk)
Partners: YIT St.Petersburg, RUMPU, Saros, W
St.Petersburg
16. 16
Events in 2012 / December
4.12
Summarizing the results of ‘Helsinki: world design capital-2012’ /
Lecture by Kimmo Lintula (k2s bureau) in ARTPLAY design center
With the support of the Embassy of Finland and technical support of Lammhults
Moscow
17. 17
Events in 2012 / December
19.12
Lecture by designer Boris Berlin entitled ‘Design stories, or
Letters in bottles’ and presentation of the production of Gubi and
Lightyears companies in the St.Petersburg studio PROSVET
With the informational support of Project Baltia magazine
St.Petersburg
26.12
Project Baltia summed up the year 2012 during the friendly party in
the ‘Ultramarine’ gallery
Partner: Bauart
St.Petersburg
