FROM VIENNA TO THE WORLD
ARCH ON TOUR 36_MOSCOW - ST. PETERSBURG
MAY 29 - JUNE 03, 2019
Concept and moderation: Marion Kuzmany / ARCH ON TOUR in cooperation with Polina Balueva
Guided tours: Polina Balueva, Andrei Putintsev, Bazhenova ES, Alexander Malinov, Oleg Shapiro, as well as other architects and experts in numerous buildings, galleries and museums on site
Tour operator: Mondial GmbH & Co. KG
The 12 million metropolis of Moscow welcomes you with architectural finds from the 1970s
and 80s, surprised with interesting new buildings and successful adaptations of dilapidated buildings from Soviet modernism as well as numerous relics from the Russian avant-garde. A guided tour to the Kremlin and a tour of the excavation work, an unusual excursion to the yacht club in Pirogovo and its bizarre buildings on the artificial lake, walks, rides on the historic metro, studio visits and a river trip through the Moskva describe the dense program in the gigantic city. The Sapsan express train takes us straight to the imperial showpiece of St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland. Cathedrals, Art Nouveau buildings and palaces line the boulevards between the spacious canals of the extraordinarily laid out city, where the tour ends with the white nights. Very good hotels are available as excellent starting points for our explorations and authentic culinary experiences are also well catered for
PROGRAM
Sunrise sunset:
Moscow approx. 04:00 - 21:00, St. Petersburg approx. 03:45 - 22:05 (however bright, "white nights")
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 / Moscow: Metropolis and river cruise
Vienna - Moscow Domodedovo with OS 601
airport transfer
Russian Academy of Sciences "Golden Brains" / Yury Platonov, 1988 (from outside)
Driving past: Moscow University, Sparrow Hills (view)
check-in Radisson Royal Hotel Ukraine,
originally Hotel Ukraina / Arkady Mordivnov, Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, 1953
Welcome drink in the hotel's Troubadour Sky Bar (view!)
Cruise with the Radisson Flotilla through the Moscow River
joint dinner on the ship (mooring directly at the hotel)
1st night at the Radisson Royal Hotel Ukraine
Thursday, May 30, 2019 / Moscow: Yacht Club, Downtown, Art District
Bus to Pirogovo
Pirogovo Yacht Club Visits to various buildings and houses, including
Telescope House / Totan Kuzembaev (Interior inspection)
lunch together in 95 degrees restaurant , Pirogovo / Alexander Brodsky
bus
Meeting with Alexander Malinov
Zentrosojus Haus (Rosfinmonitoring) / Le Corbusier, 1928
Walk: Residence of the "Russia Insurance Company company" (Arch. Proskurin), along Rozhdestvensky and Sretensky Boulevards (various historical buildings, Sretensky monastery), along ul. Rozhdestvenka, stop at Rozhdestvensky Monastery
MARCHI Moscow Architectural Institute
metro
Wow Haus Architecture (studio visit, meeting with Oleg Shapiro)
free evening in the Art District
Metro back to the hotel
2nd night at the Radison Royal Hotel Ukraine
Friday, May 31, 2019 / Moscow: classics, Kremlin, art museums
metro
Melnikov House / Konstantin Melnikov, 1928 (interior visit, guided tour)
metro
Kremlin: guided tour of renovation works and archaeological excavations with architect Alexander Malinov), Red Square, St. Basil Cathedral
Gum Moscow , individual lunch, possibly in Stolovaya No 57
Zaradye Park / Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 2017
Zaradye Concert Hall / Reserve, 2018
Afternoon optional:
Kadashi district: Tretyakov Gallery
or
Gorky Park: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art / OMA Rem Koolhaas, 2015
hotel
Metro, walk
ITAR-TASS Building / Viktor Yegerev, Anatoly Shaikhet, 1977 (from outside)
dinner together in the Pushkin café
Metro back to the hotel
optional: bar in the White Rabbit Moscow or Club Korobok in the Tehnikumbistro
3rd night in the Radisson Royal Hotel Ukraine
Saturday, June 01, 2019 / Moscow - St. Petersburg: downtown
check-out, bus
Narkomsem Building / Alexey Shchusev, 1931 (from outside)
SAPSAN express train: Leningradskiy station (Moscow) - Moskovskiy station (St. Petersburg)
Bus transfer to Hotel Angleterre, check-in
Singer House , House of the Book, 1904
Dinner together in the restaurant L´Europe in the Belmond Grand Hotel Europe
Walk:
Corinthia Hotel / Conversion of the former Nevsky Palace Hotel, 1993 / Cakman - Requat & Reinthaller & Partner (Explanation of the conversion: Project manager DI Herfried Gruber)
Novotel / terrace, view!
Walk or taxi back to Hotel Angleterre
1st night in the Hotel Angleterre, St. Petersburg
Sunday, June 02, 2019 / St. Petersburg: Peterhof and White Night
breakfast in the hotel
Boat trip to Peterhof and back
Peterhof Palace (interior visit, guided tour)
Afternoon free
optional: Hermitage / guided tour
further recommendations: Russian Museum
or bar in the Mansarda Restaurant / in the Business Center Quattro Corti , Piuarch, 2010 with a view of Isaac's Cathedral
dinner together in the Cococo restaurant
optional: HI SO Terrace Bar in Sofitel St. Petersburg
00: 00-02: 00 Cruise through the Neva as part of the
White Nights Festivals (open bridges, various spectacles, fireworks on the river, etc.)
2nd night in the Hotel Angleterre, St. Petersburg
Monday, June 03, 2019 / St. Petersburg: Nordic Art Nouveau
check-out, bus
Walk:
House Lidval / Fyodor Lidval, 1904 (from the outside)
Mosque of Saint Petersburg / Nikolai Wasiliew, ua, 1010-21 (from outside)
Kshesinskaya Mansion / Alexander von Hohen, 1904-06 (interior tour of the Museum of Political History of Russia )
Bus to the airport
Pulkovo Airport / Grimshaw Architects, 2014
Flight St. Petersburg - Vienna with OS 612
Photos: Archive ARCH ON TOUR