Maksim Atayants and Maksim Atayants Workshop have announced the construction of Laikovo, a new, large, classically-designed city in the Moscow Region that will be built from scratch ? which, according to the architects, will be the first classical city to be built from the ground up in Russia in over 100 years.

Courtesy of Maksim Atayants & Maksim Atayants Workshop

Maksim Atayants and Maksim Atayants Workshop have announced the construction of Laikovo, a new, large, classically-designed city in the Moscow Region that will be built from scratch ? which, according to the architects, will be the first classical city to be built from the ground up in Russia in over 100 years.Intended to embody the best practices of Russian and global urban planning, the city will be designed in the modern classic style in five districts, and will become Moscow?s nearest satellite city, located near Rublyovka, with easy access to the paid expressway, the M-1 double.50 percent of the 116-hectare city will be dedicated to public space, including a two-hectare park and lake at city center, as well as a main waterway that will become the Moscow Region?s longest artificial channel.
Courtesy of Maksim Atayants & Maksim Atayants?s Workshop

Four-kilometer long embankments will cross the city in much the same way as the Seine river divides Paris into Right and Left Banks. Each of 19 bridges conne...