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At the end of 2020, the Ocean Mall shopping and entertainment center will open in Kiev. Market leaders are working on the project - the concept of the object was developed by Leslie Jones Architecture and NAI Ukraine, and the company also provides consulting support for the design. The architecture is created by A. Pashenko's Workshop, constructive and engineering - by BIP-PM, and the Urban Experts bureau is working on the interior design of Megamall. For the Urban Experts team, this is another victory in the tender, proof of professionalism and ability to solve problems of high complexity. Prior to... [read more]

On November 30, the winners of the STEEL FREEDOM competition for young architects were determined. In 2019, the competition broke the record for the number of teams and projects. 115 teams have registered for STEEL FREEDOM 2019. The participants presented 82 projects: 61 projects in the category of social office with a public reception of the mayor and 21 projects in the category of a residential complex. Urban Experts has been supporting the event for several years now, which serves as a good launching pad for future architects. This year, the jury included Boris Slazhnev, the leading architect of Urban... [read more]

The Urban Experts architectural bureau in collaboration with the NAI Ukraine consulting company have developed a concept for a shopping center in the Troieshchyna neighborhood in Kiev. Urban Experts' main task was to create infrastructure in an area where there is a significant lack of it. The expediency of the appearance of a shopping center in this area is supported by detailed marketing research by NAI Ukraine, which confirmed the need for an object of a certain area, determined the functions of the shopping center and substantiated the future tenant-mix. The specifics of the place have been taken into account:... [read more]

Three years ago, Urban Experts won the competition to create a residential complex on Glybochytska Street in Kiev. Now one of the first projects of the bureau, the residential complex Mirax from "Kyivmiskbud", is being built in the Shevchenko district of Kiev, in the historical area between Podol and Lukyanovka.  Urban Experts architects talk about the peculiarities of work on the residential complex Mirax. - Participation in the competition was a great challenge for the team. The experience of "Kyivmiskbud" is measured by many decades: it is a company with established traditions and high quality standards, says Boris Slazhnev, senior... [read more]

On June 7, Urban Experts will present projects at the All-Ukrainian competition of architecture and urbanism Ukrainian Urban Awards at the Parkovy Exhibition and Convention Center. To participate in the competition, the company chose the multifunctional project Podolyany Park in Ternopil, which will be a continuation of the popular Podolyany shopping and entertainment center. As part of a modern mixed-use facility, it is planned to create a hotel, an office center and a new line of a shopping and entertainment center. Special attention was paid to the creation of a green public space, which will be located on the roof... [read more]

In autumn 2019, an information center will appear in the capital, which will tell about the history of the mass shootings at Babyn Yar and the implementation of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kiev. The project of the Dutch-Ukrainian office MIstudio (Lviv) won the tender for the development of the concept of the info center. Among other projects of this bureau is the Memorial of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred in Kiev. The project is being implemented by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC) in cooperation with the Kyiv City State Administration. The tender procedure for... [read more]

Vitalii Boiko, CEO of Urban Experts and NAI Ukraine, will be the speaker of the third section of the Architecture & Design Thinking conference. The event, which is organized by the Ukrainian Real Estate Club (URE Club), will take place on April 17 at Pochayna Event Hall. The topic of Vitalii Boiko's speech is “Features of evidence-driven architecture in commercial and residential real estate”. Vitalii will tell how the research becomes the basis for successful concepts, what you need to pay attention to when creating residential and commercial architecture, which global trends are widespread in Ukraine, and which are still... [read more]

On April 19, the Premier Palace Hotel will host the Hoteliero Architectural Forum. The profile event will bring together restaurateurs and hoteliers, designers and architects, investors and developers who will talk about the role of interiors and spaces in HoReCa. The topic of the forum is “Architecture that creates emotions, spaces, innovations”. Vitalii Boiko, CEO of Urban Experts and NAI Ukraine, will speak at the event. Vitaly, as the author of hundreds of shopping and entertainment center concepts that have been embodied in commercially successful projects with a worldwide reputation, is close to the topic of the forum. In his... [read more]