Success follows
those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms
of the future ~ Dee Hock
The original Pushkinsky Cinema
Hall is proposed to be encased as a precious jewel of heritage in a state of
the art glass structural envelope.
The transparent glass structure
seeks to revitalize the Pushkinsky’s spatial experience by transforming the
spaces around the Cinema Hall into an internal gallery, rendering the original
edifice itself as an exhibit.
Reminiscent of the grand red carpet
experience of the past when it was the Moscow International Film Festival
“palace”, a floating glass stairway embarks on a journey around the entire
building, deliberately creating a breathtaking experience of traversing and
floating alongside and above the great Pushkinsky.
The act of enclosing the entire
Cinema Hall simultaneously creates the space and an opportunity for a one of a
kind park on the rooftop and an “exhibition canvas” on the skin of the original
building, accessed via the barely perceivable glass stairway.
The existing building skin
building itself will be clad in a new mirror finished stainless steel paneling
interspersed with LED screens and exhibit panels which reinvents the existing
envelope as a gallery and canvas to reflect the surrounding environment and
highlight its past. This reengineering of the original skin seeks to enshrine
the glory of its past by integrating it into its original form. The skin of the
building itself becomes a museum to showcase the Pushkinsky’s history.
The indoor park atop the building
will be an extension of and a complement to Pushkin Square addressing the need
for green spaces in Moscow. It is a canvas for contemporary landscapes to bring
nature back into the built environment.