Perm is a sleeping beauty - an article about the role of the Perm Strategic Masterplan

Students of the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design interviewed Kees Christiaanse about the furture of urbanisation. Click here to read the interview.

KCAP is part of the consortium led by De Architecten Cie. which has been selected as one of 5 international competitors for the Serp & Molot (hammer and sickle) competition in Moscow. Aim of the competition is the creation of a multifunctional city unit with a well-developed infrastructure, integrated into the city pattern and meeting the requirements of environmentally sustainable developments.The consortium consists of: de Architecten Cie.KCAP Architects&PlannersKarres en Brands Landscape ArchitectsMLabProsperity Project Management Click here for the official website of Serp & Molot and here for images of the area and the press conference.

KCAP as lead of a multidiscipinary consortium has been selected as one of 8 international participants for the competition for the International Financial Center in Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye. The IFC is a 460 ha mixed-use development project located in 'New Moscow'. The project involves the construction of offices, housing and hotels, as well as commercial and social infrastructure. Team KCAP consists of: de Architecten Cie.Buro HappoldKarres en Brands Landscape ArchitectsMLabFaktonProsperity Project Management Click here for the competition website of IFC. Find here more information about the selection of participants.

The city of Perm was shortlisted as one of 15 projects in the 2012 GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR URBAN INNOVATION. The jury received 255 initiatives submitted from 153 cities and from 56 countries and regions out of which 220 were qualified to enter the awards. Of these 220 initiatives, 45 were identified as outstanding initiatives and 15 were selected as submissions of excellence (shortlisted). Finally five winning cities in urban-development initiatives were selected: Kocaeli (Turkey), Lilongwe (Malawi), Seoul (Korea), Vancouver (Canada), Vienna (Austria). Click here for the review of the jury.

In late September the construction works of the Embankment City Park in Perm, Russia have started. At this moment the asphalt and concrete curbs are deconstructed and the site is being prepared. The process is subdivided in three phases of one year each. The completion of the first phase is planned in August 2013.Click here for a video on local TV channel ‘Rifei Perm’.

During the 48th ISOCARP Congress, that took place 10-13 September 2012 in Perm, Han van den Born and Maria Pidodnia gave an interview about the role of KCAP's Strategic Masterplan Perm in the city's development. They reflected on the future of Perm and highlighted the crutial aspects of the plan itself and its implementation: the idea of a compact city, the necessity of the involvement of citizens and how to plan in correspondence with local building regulations. Read here the article (in Russian).

Last week a Russian web-resource UrbanUrban has published an interview with Kees Christiaanse about the implimentation of the Perm Strategic Masterplan and the future of Russian cities. UrbanUrban is a blog about people, ideas and technologies that form a comfortable urban environment. The focus lies on urban processes in different countries and in Russia in particular.Click here for the interview (in Russian).

KCAP Architects&Planners is happy to announce the launch of the Russian version of our website!After finalizing the Perm Strategic Masterplan and several other projects in Russia, our work in the Russian context has become an integral part of our expertise and experience.To accommodate this we added the Russian version as fourth language to our website next to English, Dutch and Chinese.We are happy to use this opportunity to improve the communication with our Russian relations.