Studio 44 Architects

Studio 44 Architects
About Company
Architectural bureau ‘Studio 44’ is one of the largest
Russia. The studio’s team consists of over 120 highly
restoration experts, structural designers, engineers).
Twenty specialists are currently running and coordinating ongoing projects and acting as chief architects,
chief structural designers and chief structural engineers.
The company has both the human resources and
the capacity to perform the whole cycle of project
stages – from concept planning and preliminary
designs to drafting – and to prepare the complete
set of design- and budget-related documentation.
‘Studio 44’ has an extensive experience in acting as
general designer and coordinating contractor work.
We provide a range of services including technical support during approvals and state inspection
of design and budget documentation, as well as architectural supervision of the construction process.
Nikita Yavein
Head of Studio 44 Architects
Honoured Architect of the Russian Federation
Academian of The International Academy of Architecture (IAAM-MAAM)
Member of Russian Academy of Architecture and
Construction Sciences
Professor of St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts
We specialize in designing large public venues and
multifunctional centers. The portfolio of Studio 44 includes such successfully implemented projects as the
Ladozhsky Railway Station, Atrium Business Center at
Nevsky 25, Nevsky 38 and Linkor business centers, the
Grand Palace shopping gallery, the Novy Peterhof hotel, the new museum complex of the State Hermitage
Dance Academy, Palace of Schoolchildren (Astana, Kazakhstan), and Olympic Park Railway Station in Sochi.
Nikita Yavein was born in 1954. After graduating
from Engineering and Construction Institute (1977)
Nikita Yavein accumulated extensive experience in
several design institutions. In 1991 he launched
an architectural practice of his own. In 1994 Nikita
Yavein become a chairman of St. Petersburg Committee for the State Inspection and Protection of
Historical Monuments. In 2003 he left the post to
concentrate entirely on his architectural practice.
He is responsible for several iconic realizations of St.
Studio 44 has unique experience in the reconstruction, restoration and adaptation of historic buildings
tion to the above mentioned project on the recons-
and restoration into the State Hermitage museum
complex, Boris Eifman Dance Academy, Ladozhsky
railway station, ‘Nevsky 38’ and ‘Atrium at 25 Nevsky Avenue’ business centers, bank in Furshtatskaya
street, Grand Palace shopping arcade, and a num-
Studio 44 enjoys a high professional reputation and
holds over 60 prestigious awards including the State
Prize for Literature and Arts, the top national awards
in architecture: the Chrystal Dedalus and the Vladimir
Tatlin Prize, as well as the top prizes of Architekton review competition held in St. Petersburg and Zodchestvo International Architectural Festival in Moscow.
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currently working on the out-of-town campus of
St. Petersburg State University’s Graduate School of
Management located on the Mikhailovskaya Dacha
estate and the Museum of Nicholas II in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Preserve.
Address: 3 Manezhny lane, St. Petersburg 191014, Russia
Tel/Fax +7(812) 273 46 35, +7(812) 273 13 97
Email: post@studio44.ru
Website: www.studio44.ru
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ZHASTAR PALACE IN ASTANA
“The Magic Cube” Competition Project
Respubliki Avenue 34, Astana, Kazakhstan
Design Project: 2013
General Design Contractor: OOO Architectural
Studio “STUDIO 44”
Architects: Nikita Yawein, Vladimir Zenkevich,
Vladimir Lemekhov, Georgy Snezhkin, Ilya Grigoriev, Ivan Kozhin, Yulia Dubejko, Yekaterina
Nikitina, Andrey Partrikeev, Anna Rudenko, Maria
Sokolova, Kseniya Schastlivtseva
Structural Designer: Dmitriy Kresov
Client: Astana Department of Architecture and
Urban Planning on behalf of the Akimat of the
City of Astana
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The diverse functional zones of the Zhastar Pathe transparent walls of the cube, there is a
connected by the bright lines of staircases and
function (children’s center, concert hall, discusthe rest in colour and texture. The artistic image is intended to show the unity and struggle
of the dynamic and the static: the cube’s rigid
crystalline grid controls the multicoloured
The building has been lifted 5 m above
ground, with a Youth Forum for public festivals underneath. To the north of the Palace, a sports complex is located and to the
south there is an open-air amphitheater.
Zhastar Palace is located along the 2.7-km-long
Pedestrian Boulevard, which has been intended as a system of various public spaces serving
people of every age and social standing. One of
the features of the Boulevard is a promenade
The gallery runs along the Respubliki Avenue and ends with an entrance to the Palace.
DATA
Building footprint – 9 670 m2
Total area – 42 850 m2
Building bulk – 305 550 m3
Number of stories – 12 stories
Number of seats:
- concert hall – 1500 seats
- movie theater – 800 seats
- media center and discussion club – 600 seats
Overall one-time capacity – 3 800 seats
Parking space capacity – 350 vehicles
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PALACE FOR MARTIAL ARTS
Astana, Kazakhstan
DESIGN: 2011 - 2012
CLIENT: Construction company «BASIS A» (Alma-Ata,
Kazakhstan)
ARCHITECTS: Nikita Yavein, Nikolai Smolin, Yanina,
Smolina, Daria Gordina, Nikolai Novotochinov,
Evgeniy Novosadyuk, Andrey Patrikeev
The Palace for martial arts is the new builthe arena that will act as a local landmark.
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ture made of spatial trussed arches. In layout, the arches are slid one towards the
other, intertwined only in some points of
the span and merge with each other on
various heights. The resulting dynamic
outlines of the vaults are distinctively articulate of the visuality of the sport – athletic wrestlers with their bodies interlaced
in the dramatic opposition of the combat.
The Palace for 5 000 spectators will
host top level combat & wrestling competitions. A two-storey stylobate of
the building will contain the entire infrastructure for sportsmen, visitors, referees, journalists, representatives of
World sports organizations, etc. The
roof of the stylobate will act as a walkafoyer in Summer time and direct accesses to the arena seats. Thus, the space
will operate as an open air public area,
or as a raised above ground viewing
platform accessed via sloping stairs.
DATA
Parcel area – 40 379 sq.m
Footprint – 15 700 sq.m
Total area – 21 000 sq.m
Structural volume – 211.000
Number of storeys – 3
Arena capacity – 5 000 seats
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