Krymskaya Embankment is a kilometre long linear park in Krymskaya Embankment is a kilometer long linear park in the heart of Moscow.
A former busy riverside road it was closed in 2013 and turned into a park with a formal plaza of lime tree grove, a huge fountain in front of the New Tretyakov Gallery, and more naturalistic adjacent planting.
The new perennial meadows were the first big scale New Perennial wave public realm project in Moscow. A year earlier Anna has designed and planted Moscow’s first public perennial borders ever in the same park.
The perennial planting at Krymskaya references semi-natural grasslands (hay meadows) of temperate Europe. A matrix of blue moor grass (Molinia caerulea) and tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia cespitosa) is interplanted with thousands of colorful perennial forbs, bulbs and other grasses. The planting was designed to be a showcase of a perennials and ornamental grasses adapted to the regional conditions and includes both native and non-native North American species. Grasses, crabapples and Majak willows – a Soviet bread hybrid of a shrubby willow with colorful bark - provide winter interest.
Lead designer: Wowhaus Architecture Bureau
Planting Design/Concept & DD: Anna Andreyeva Alphabet City
Lighting Design: Anna Kharchenkova
Landforms’ Consultant/DD: LDA Design
Year built: 2013
Area: 4,5 Ha
Perennial meadows area: 0,5 Ha (5000 sq.m.)
Triumfalnaya Square is located at the crossing of Moscow’s main street Tverskaya with the Garden Ring. It was designed by the Soviet architect Chechulin in 1958, but has become overridden with chaotic parking. The new design by Buromoscow created green spaces with seating areas around Vladimir Mayakovsky statue. Bigger trees were planted along the Garden Ring and ornamental crabapples - Malus ‘Red Sentinel’ - are scattered around the meadow planting. We knew from the start that no proper maintenance will be taking place, so the planting had to be robust. A matrix of golden Deshampsia was chosen for the grass’s ability to grow both in the sun and shade, it’s early emergence in spring and drought tolerance. In nature tufted hair grass often grows in wet meadows, but it is resilient enough to grow in dry conditions. Irises sp., Salvias sp. and Allium chrisophii provide color in June followed by Achillea millefolium and Allium spherocehalon in July and Liatris spicata and Panicum virgatum ‘Rotstrahlbusch’ in August. Autumn and winter interests come from the grasses and crabapples. The intense colors of Achillea were not part of the design intent. The idea was to use delicate pale yellow variety ‘Mondpagode’ to match the towering Peking hotel building. But here the contractors’ decision to buy Summer Pastels’ Mix instead turned out to be blessing in disguise.
Lead Designer: Buromoscow
Planting Design: Anna Andreyeva Alphabet City
Year Built: 2015
Area: 0,7 Ha( 7550 sq.m)
Perennial meadows area: 0,85 Ha (850 sq.m.)
Проект цветников в стиле New Perennials для Триумфальной площади. Ассортимент растения отражает непростые условия места - все растения устойчивы к засухе и неприхотливы. Основа цветника - матрица из щучки дернистой, которая заполняется яркими пятнами шалфеев, лиатриса, тысячелистника и другими неприхотливыми растениями.
The Edible Garden is a nostalgic memory of the tiny Soviet dacha plots where without much advanced agricultural technologies people gardened not just for fun, but to survive through the years of deficit. It’s been quite a while since survival gardening has been abandoned at least around our country’s capital and the vegetable beds and greenhouses have mostly been replaced with lawns and flowers. Yet we see that this type of gardening will make a comeback both due to an urge to grow your own organic vegetables and the looming economic crisis. The old dacha plots may be overgrown now and taken over by nature, but they are a distant memory that is suddenly very alive. In our garden five glasshouses are partially filled with vegetables, and partially taken over by the Russian meadow planting. All the plants belong to plant communities of Nikolo-Lenivets Landart Park 250 km South of Moscow. The matrix of blue moorgrass Molinia caerulea is filled with forbs such as Verbascum, Salvia, Geraniums, Trifolium, Achillea, Agrimonia, etc. The meadow is dotted with masses of Cosmos bipinnatus – a beloved annual Soviet dacha plant. The greenhouses are overtaken by the meadow, but in some of them you can still see raspberries or beans, or a random tomato plant. Weathered furniture pieces are also of the same period. The vintage chairs made in Checkoslovakia invite you to sit down and feel the nature taking over.
A unique sound installation created by Russian sound artist Vladislav Sorokin also is a mix of an old dacha sounds.
Concept: Alphabet City + 8 Lines
Planting Design & Decoration: Alphabet City/Anna Andreyeva, Maria Ashkova, Alexandra Sokolova, Boris Kondakov
Greenhouses Design: 8 Lines: Anton Kochurkin, Lisa Tsaplina
Year built: 2016
Area: 0.6 Ha
Our Sponsors: Institut Francais Russie, Novy Park, Moloko Shop Kitchenware
«Заросшая дача» на Фестивале садов Chaumont-sur-Loire
Наш проект был отобран для участия в международном конкурсе фестиваля садов во французском городке Chaumont-sur-Loire, темой которого стали «Сады грядущей эпохи».
Наш сад — ностальгическая память о крошечных советских дачах на шести сотках. Легкие конструкции-остовы парников уже почти заросли диким лугом, но мы еще видим остатки культурных растений – патиссонов, тыкв, малины, космеи, укропа, - и дачного быта – старой бочки для полива, мебели 60-х годов, книг, журналов, эмалированной посуды.
Нам было важно, что все растения в проекте можно найти на российских лугах. Желтые свечки репешка обыкновенного и яркие соцветия васильков как будто переместились с обочины дороги Никола-Ленивца во Францию.
Звуковое сопровождение проекта создал российский саунд-художник Владислав Сорокин, чтобы подчеркнуть атмосферу символических моментов, которые еще с детства остались в сознании от проведенных на даче каникулах.
Сайт конкурса : domaine-chaumont.fr
Идея проекта: Антон Кочуркин "8 lines", Анна Андреева, Мария Ашкова и Александра Соколова.
Ландшафт и декор: Alphabet City
Архитектура: 8 Lines
В реализации проекта приняли участие : Лиза Цаплина, Марион Израэль, Борис Кондаков-Железный
Проект осуществлен при поддержке Institut Francais Russie и компании «Новый Парк», посуда предоставлена Moloko Shop Kitchenware
Having prioritized the regeneration of the Russian capital’s parks to make the city a more comfortable and attractive place in which to live, the Moscow Department of Culture appointed LDA Design & Alphabet City to produce transformational masterplans for the city’s principal parks.
LDA Design’s response emphasized health and wellbeing, and play and recreation. The team worked hard to create opportunities for the community, as well as providing a rich horticultural and ecological experience.
At Sadovniki, the ‘Gardeners’ Park’, we had two key issues to resolve. Although at the center of dense urban environment, prior to redesign the park was only used by the local residents as a transitional route to the nearest metro station. The park needed a new path network that responded to the way in which people wanted to use the space.
Secondly, the Park needed the sort of amenities that would make it a destination for the many thousands of people who live adjacent to it. Within this context, a masterplan for a beautiful modern park emerged, focused on a new ‘heart of the park’ and pavilion. New facilities include a fountain plaza with a family cafe, ice rink and events space, BMX track, skateboarding bowl, gardens, and play spaces.
Client: Mosgorpark/Moscow Department of Culture Parks’ Authority
Lead designer: LDA Design
Planting Design/Concept, DD & Supervision: Alphabet City
Alphabet City Team: Anna Andreyeva, Harry Nuriev, Olga Drozdova
Lighting Design: Michael Grubb Studio
Pavilions’ Concept: Moxon Architects
Year built: 2014
Area: 34 Ha
Парк "Садовники" открылся осенью 2014 года и был назван журналом Афиша самым современным парком в городе за пределами Садового кольца. На месте пустыря, через который люди ходили только к метро и домой, появился новый парк с детскими и спортивными площадками, новыми цветниками в стиле New perennials, современным освещением, павильонами кафе и прокатов.
The Siberian rooftop garden in central Moscow in its second year with perennial steppe planting and all other plants native to Siberia.
Cold winter temperatures are a major challenge for roof top planting in Moscow as local species are not adapted to the soils that freeze completely. This semi-intensive garden features several “designed” plant communities: a meadow steppe community referencing East Siberian petrophyte steppes with an addition of some European steppe species, trees, shrubs and groundcover plants of East Siberian sub-alpine communities such as Larix sibirica, Betula nana and Bergenia crassifolia, and resilient cold and drought tolerant shrub of the Russian Far East.
Alphabet City Team: Anna Andreyeva, Boris Kondakov, Alexandra Kormushina, Maria Ashkova.
Special thanks: Mel Architects
Built: 2018
This small urban garden is located on top of an underground garage in central Moscow. The client´s brief was to convert the cluttered and uninviting terrace into a liveable and green family garden. Simple materials such as pine wood and Black Sea pea gravel were selected to cover up the original red granite cladding. As all planting beds are on a podium and the soils freezes in the winter resilient and robust plants of the Russian north and Far East and cold tolerant steppe plants were used.
Client: Private
Alphabet City Team: Anna Andreyeva, Maria Ashkova, Alexandra Sokolova, Boris Kondakov
Additional consulting: Valeria Goryainova
Year built: 2017
Area: 250 sq.m.
The work on this intentionally “not-designed” garden of the iconic house of Russian modernist architect Konstantin Melnikov is facilitated by the museum and local volunteers. In 2018-19 we designed a vegetable garden drawing plant lists from the museum archives: dairies, photos, paintings and oral memories of the architect's family. More planting is to follow next season.
Client: State Museum of Konstatin and Viktor Melnikov (the Melnikov House).
Archival research done by the Museum Team: Anna Kistanova, Dina Sakhno, Pavel Kuznetsov
Alphabet City Team: Anna Andreyeva, Alexandra Kormushina, Maria Ashkova, Anna Sodaz, Boris Kondakov
Volunteers: Faina Rogacheva, Alena Tolstikova, descendants of the architect Natalia & Kostya Melnikov, museum’s staff Nikolay & Oksana Melnik
The Museum Kiosk (reconstruction of the Mellnikov Shed): Alexander Brodsky Bureau and Bureau Rozhdestvenka
Special thanks: Pavel Kuznetsov, museums’ director, Elena Melnikova, granddaughter of the architect, Svetlana Andreyeva, Ekaterina & Alexander Zhukov, Wild Grasses Nursery, Anna Morozova, Nikolo-Lenivets Farm, Olga Malina, Tsvetochnaya Polyana Nursery.
Year built: 2018-19 (Stage I)
Area: 350 sq.m.
"Лес" вокруг павильонов "Времена Года" и "Шестигранника".
Заказчик: Проект Меганом и Inside Outside/OMA
Стадия: Проект
Команда проекта: Анна Андреева, Мария Ашкова
Проектирование и реалзиация: 2015
Архитекторы из OMA и Inside Outside поставили задачу создать вокруг павильонов "лес", в котором будут растворяться здания.
Ощущение леса создается за счет многоярусных посадок из черной ольхи, лиственницы Кэмпфера, дубов и кленов, а также яблони ягодной, боярышников и клена приречного в качестве второго яруса леса. Черная ольха - самое красиво дерево по графике ветвей - дает ощущение подмосковного леса. Яркие плоды яблонь и боярышников делают лес привлекательным в холодное врем года.
Деревья должны выбираться разного возраста - до 30% могут составлять крупномеры - очень важна разная толщина стволов у деревьев, иначе вместо естественного леса будет ощущение питомника растений.
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Alphabet City Team: Anna Andreyeva
Status: concept
Year: 2012
Концепция озеленения территории вокруг реконструируемого здания Политехнического Музея для junya.ishigami+associates
Domaine de Cascaret, a private garden near Montreal in Languedoc, spans over two hectares. For three decades, its English owners had cultivated a quintessential English garden. However, the garden entered a new chapter in 2022 when Sankha Guha, the former BBC presenter, assumed ownership. With a vision for sustainability and ease of upkeep, Guha enlisted Anna to reimagine this idyllic enclave.
Anna's intervention was transformative yet respectful of the garden's soul. She turned the sprawling English lawn into a vibrant wildflower meadow and converted a former parking space into a dry garden that reflects the Mediterranean garrigues. This approach allowed Cascaret to begin a new story, one where untrammelled natural beauty and ecological mindfulness coexist in harmony.
Even the remaining modest swathe of lawn, a sanctuary for children to play, is intentionally left unmowed until early June, allowing native orchids to thrive and set seed. This rejuvenated landscape warmly welcomes local wildlife as integral participants, not intruders. The presence of wild boars, roe deer, and hares introduces a level of disturbance vital for maintaining biodiversity and adds excitement for the new owners.
By transforming a traditional English garden into a dynamic ecosystem that thrives with minimal water usage and maintenance, Anna has set a new benchmark in garden design. This is especially relevant in light of the increasing hosepipe bans and extreme weather events in France.
The significance of Anna's work extends to private gardens in France, offering a sustainable model for both English-speaking expats and local residents
