Architectural bureau "Studio 44" (Studio 44 Architects) is one of the largest private architectural firms in St. Petersburg and in Russia. The studio’s team consists of over than 230 highly qualified specialists of different profiles (architects, restorers, designers, engineers).
We specialize in designing large public venues and multifunctional centers. The portfolio of Studio 44 Architects includes such successfully implemented projects as the Ladozhsky Railway Station (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), the new museum complex of the State Hermitage Museum in the General Staff Building (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Boris Eifman Dance Academy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Palace of Schoolchildren (Astana, Kazakhstan) and Olympic Park Railway Station (Sochi, Russia).
Studio 44 Architects has unique experience in the reconstruction, restoration and adaptation of historic buildings classified as cultural heritage monuments. In addition to the above mentioned project on the reconstruction of the General Staff Building, Studio 44 Architects is 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.
Studio 44 Architects 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. In addition, "Studio 44" is the only architectural bureau from Russia whose projects have won three times at the World Architecture Festival (WAF). In 2015 our company was awarded two WAF prizes. We won in nominations ‘Projects. Masterplan’ (development concept for the historic centre of Kaliningrad) & in the nomination ’Buildings. Schools’ (For the project of Boris Eifman Dance Academy). In 2018, another our project (museum and exhibition complex "Defense and Siege of Leningrad") was awarded a prize in the nomination (category) ‘Culture’. The awards in the form of statuettes were presented to our bureau chief Nikita Yaveyn.