Kharkiv City rebuilding, Ukraine Design Renewal 2022, Architecture rehabilitation news
Kharkiv City rebuilding news
20 April 2022
Meeting between Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Lord Foster
Kharkiv City Rebuilding Meeting
Following discussions which began at the 2nd UN Forum of Mayors in Geneva, Mayor Ihor Terekhov worked with the UNECE Secretariat in Geneva to convene a meeting with Lord Foster which took place at 16:00 EEST on 18th April 2022, to discuss the future rebuilding of the City of Kharkiv.
Mayor Terekhov was joined by Igor Abramovych, People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th Convocation, and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy; and by Olga Demyanenko, Director of the Department for Relations with International Agencies and Financial Institutions. Lord Foster had invited Professor Ian Goldin of Oxford University and Professor Ed Glaeser of Harvard University; along with the Co-Heads of the Design, Architecture and Technology Unit of the Norman Foster Foundation, Diego Lopez and Alberto Cendoya.
Lord Norman Foster and Francis Aish at ETH Zurich:

The Mayor set out his vision for the rehabilitation of the city, its buildings and its infrastructure, much of which – including housing, hospitals, schools, cultural institutions and historic buildings ? had been completely destroyed. His vision seeks to embrace the city?s recent heritage of investment in technology and healthcare through the creation of, what he described as, new h...