Cannes, France (11, March 2020) – Today, the MIPIM AR Future Project Awards has announced Moscow’s Paveletskaya Plaza, designed by Hollywood, California-based 5+design in collaboration with Mall Management Group, as its winner of the Shopping Centers Category for 2020.

The MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards is an awards program for projects under construction or as-yet-unbuilt, spanning across eight categories. It is organized and awarded annually by MIPIM, the world’s leading international property market in Cannes, France, in cooperation with the London-based, monthly international magazine Architectural Review. 

Since its inception in 2002, the awards have become one of the most influential programs at MIPIM. Each entry is carefully weighed in accordance to the AR Future Projects standards by a team of dedicated judges from across the architecture and construction community with the key goal of finding how each project contributes to its immediate location.

Located adjacent to the primary entrance façade of the historic Moscow Paveletsky Railway Station, Paveletskaya Plaza is a project informed by its context. Following strict municipal guidelines enacted to protect views to the railway station, Paveletskaya Plaza functions as part urban park and part retail center, codifying its historic and modern surroundings into a richly unified, multi-purposed site.

The new design reestablishes a lost connection between the historic railway station and Moscow’s Second Ring Road, through the creation of a new park and plaza that connect the two, and link to a two-level shopping center below-grade.  The center’s expansive, glass-enclosed entrances peak slightly above the ground plane - maintaining a constant dialogue between the retail, the open park and plaza, and the adjacent historic station. Across multiple levels, Paveletskaya Plaza’s retail, lush landscape, programmable plazas, and event terraces will work together to provide a wide range of offerings, and enhance the experience of the area’s many travelers, commuters, and expected visitors.

About 5+design

5+design is a creative international architecture and planning practice with studios in Hollywood, Shanghai, and Dubai.  Led by founders Michael Ellis, Stan Hathaway, and Arthur Benedetti, and guided by a core belief in the power of contextualism, the firm’s work encompasses retail, mixed-use, residential, and large-scale urban planning.

This year’s MIPIM AR Award marks the second consecutive win for the studio, which won in the same category for their Taikoo Li Qiantan project in 2019.

About Mall Management Group

The MMG team has many years of professional experience in commercial real estate development, including support for the full life cycle of the project: the process of its initiation and approval, initial investment and project financing, construction and commissioning, management and development of real estate assets. Key competence: Registration of IRD, approval and examination of project documentation, Managing the development of architectural and commercial concepts.

About MIPIM

MIPIM (in French, Le marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier) is an international property event hosted in Cannes, France each March. It is hosted by Reed MIDEM and includes an exhibition area, networking events and conference sessions over a period of 4 days.

MIPIM Cannes is the world's leading property exhibition and will next take place from 10 – 13 March 2020. Around 23,000 people are expected to attend during the intensive four-day MIPIM programme, including 1,500 architects and 4,800 investors, with around 77 real estate projects from 26 countries being unveiled. MIPIM brings together the most influential players from all international property sectors – including office, residential, retail, healthcare, sport, logistics and industrial – offering unrivalled access to the greatest number of development projects and sources of capital worldwide.

About Architectural Review

The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine. It has been published in London since 1896.  Its articles cover the built environment – which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism – as well as theory of these subjects.

Collaborators

Client: Mall Management Group

Landscape and Plaza Design Collaborators: SWA/Balsley

Lighting Designers: ACT Lighting Design

Environmental Graphics Consultant: Selbert Perkins Design Collaborative

General Contractor: ANT YAPI