In St. Petersburg, began work "New Holland": island park with museum elements

In late August, it was opened in the famous island of the park and the "New Holland" cultural space, which will become permanently established.

New Holland - an artificial island in the center of St. Petersburg, which appeared almost simultaneously with the city itself. The first appointment of the island was the ship's storage timber, which the architect Savva Chevakinsky built along the perimeter of red brick warehouses, and Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe has created the decor of their facades and building crowned 23-meter arch, which in the XX century became one of the symbols of St. Petersburg. The place is traditionally subordinate naval department was unavailable and retained a romantic atmosphere for many decades.

In 2010, Roman Abramovich's Millhouse LLC and Foundation Daria Zhukova "Iris" decided to make New Holland a modern urban public space. The ideas put forward in its transformation of many famous architects - a result based on a proposal WorkAC studio won the competition, now the project is implemented by the Dutch bureau WEST 8. Since the boundaries of the monument of architecture prohibited any new construction, organizers of a new space under the motto "The cultural urbanization" commissioned work known for its landscape solutions Bureau, whose founder Adrian Gёze is responsible for the new look of Tverskaya street.

By the reconstruction of New Holland started in the fall of 2013. The total area of ​​the island of 72 thousand sq. M. m, which is 25 times less CPKiO them. Gorky in Moscow, and the park is broken only at one-third of the island and pretend to accommodate all forms of leisure. Stylistics temporary pavilions designed by the architect Sergei Bukin, based on old photographs Sestroretsk resort. Exhibition pavilion at its location and size of the most notable of the already opened, so the first two days of the "New Holland" accommodate the exhibition "Sensual Experiments" withstood a record for contemporary art in Russia today influx of spectators: It is estimated the organizers, it was visited by almost 2.5 thousand. man.