Construction of the century or the struggle for the image

St. Petersburg continues to worry about the towers, "Ohta-tsenr" good building which gave the City on the Neva. Ministry of Culture, represented by Alexander Avdeev sent to the prosecutor of the northern capital Rosokhrankultura conclusion regarding the decision of the city administration to allow developers to deviate from the accepted limits of construction in St. Petersburg. In other words, the Ministry strongly opposed and residents, too, but actually, why? The governor, Valentina Matvienko, quite convincingly explain the townspeople that St. Petersburg should develop, he can not stand still - "We must show these architectural masterpieces, which then future generations will be proud of. And we will be proud of, that left no gray, monotonous, so sovdepovskuyu, sorry for this expression, architecture, and managed to build something his own. This is not the destruction of this creation. " While there the governor a few disingenuous, it is unlikely future St. Petersburg will be proud of glass phallus, which in no way fit into the architectural appearance of the city nor in the traditions of Russian architecture in general. However, in essence Matvienko rights metropolis needed retail, office and entertainment centers, he needs a multi-level parking lot, he can not hide forever from today. The funny thing is that in St. Petersburg has already built commercial complexes ashanovskih sizes and none, by and large, was not opposed. Finally, there is also a North Pearl sleeping areas and industrial zones, the architectural value of which, as saying anything is questionable, and business center - not too bad, especially for him not to demolish churches. It is understandable because no one will touch Kazan that are stuffed in his shoes offices, well build the suburbs of, so it's even better. The process of urbanization in the worst sense of the word is inevitable for any big city. It is a matter of elementary functionality, and palaces in the conditions of modern life, unfortunately, not functional leaky nose. But why, "Ohta-Center" so bielenite St. Petersburg? Just gigantism of the tower made it a symbol, a symbol of the mess of glass, concrete and plastic, which has already engulfed Moscow, and if "Ohta" really erect, then all goodbye image of cultural capital. They are a people of the City on the Neva cherish most. Okay, let the outskirts of St. Petersburg in time obrastut featureless architecture of a consumer society, they are not very nice, but the image does not hurt. They not only learned from excess litter, but this spire is not so similar to the Admiralty, will stick out the whole of Russia, well, what sort of cultural capital here. Okay would the city needed a sweep of outlandish "Ohta-center, but only the extent, he's the fruit of vanity Gazprom ... This is hardly consolation to St. Petersburg, but not so long ago, the biggest, most powerful and advanced already built, it has then collided with an iceberg somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.