Paveletskaya Plaza in Moscow Landscape Urbanism and Placemaking, Russian Architecture Images
Paveletskaya Plaza Moscow Landscape Design
8 July 2020
Paveletskaya Plaza Moscow News
Architects: SWA/Balsley and 5+design
Location: Moscow, Russia

SWA/Balsley Designs Paveletskaya Plaza in Moscow
A Model of Landscape Urbanism and Placemaking
Located at Moscows?s historic train station, the project is poised to become the city’s next great urban park and public attraction.

Renderings courtesy SWA/Balsley and 5+design
New York, NY (July 7, 2020) ? Prominently located at the front door of Moscow’s historic train station, the new Paveletskaya Plaza is poised to become the city’s next great urban park and public attraction. The innovative design collaboration by SWA/Balsley and 5+design won an invited international competition with a harmonious fusion of urban park with below-grade retail creating a new civic destination that will spark the public’s landscape imagination of 21st century city life in downtown Moscow.
When built in 1900 by Russian architect Alexander Krasovsky, the historic Paveletsky railway station fulfilled a grand vision of connecting Russia?s Pavelets, or surrounding suburbs, to Moscow. It welcomed travelers into ornate interior concourses and a grand hall, and faced onto a garden square situated directly in front of the station. Over time, a new road bifurcated the park and siloed the iconic station from its surroundings.

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