As we wrap up another incredibly busy year, we would like to acknowledge the tremendous work the RTDA team has accomplished. Our projects received international recognition, winning eight prestigious awards in urban development, architecture, and design, including the World Design Awards, BLT Awards, International Excellence Awards, IADA, A Design Award, Interior Design Award, Arch Design Award, and UDAD Awards.
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We are happy to share great news! Our competition project for Villa Meneghetti in Mirano, Venice, has won the World Design Awards 2025.
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We are delighted to announce great news! Our Vorkuta Town Master Plan has become a platinum winner of the International Excellence Awards 2025 presented by the ADC Architecture & Design Community. The award celebrates projects that are characterized by creativity and innovation, setting new standards for excellence.
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We are happy to share great news! ! Our Yandex Office in Yerevan project is a Platinum Award Winner at the annual International Architecture&Design Awards 2025. IADA is an awards program that accepts exceptional work that exemplifies the best in aesthetic and artistic design from around the world.
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We are pleased to announce great news! Our Vorkuta Town Master Plan has been silver awarded at A Design Award 2025, one of the most prestigious awards in the world in the field of design and architecture.
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Great news! Our Yandex Office in Yerevan project won gold at the annual Arch Design Award 2025. The Arch Design Award recognizes outstanding interior design solutions that focus on the functionality and aesthetic appeal of space.
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We are happy to share great news! The Vorkuta Town Master Plan developed by RTDA is a Gold Award Winner of the annual international Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2025 — a prestigious award in the field of urban development and architecture.
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Let's start the year with good news! Our Vorkuta Town Master Plan has won the World Design Awards 2024 — one of the most prestigious awards in the world in the field of architecture and design. The World Design Awards recognizes outstanding projects aimed at developing harmonious relationships between architecture and nature, architecture and society, architects and the city.
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Summing up the results of the year past, it is worth pointing out that the RTDA team has done a great job. Our Lagonaki All-Season Mountain Eco-Resort project and Vorkuta Town Master Plan gained international recognition and were awarded with gold and silver diplomas in the prestigious international awards
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We have great news! The Vorkuta Town Master Plan developed by RTDA has received the Second Reward in the prestigious Global Architecture & Design Awards 2024.
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We have great news! Our Yandex Go project got the silver award of the annual New York Architectural Design Awards 2024 in category “Interior Design”. New York Architectural Design Awards recognizes outstanding projects in the field of architecture, urban planning and industrial design.
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We have great news! Our Lagonaki All-Season Mountain Eco-Resort project got the silver award of the annual New York Architectural Design Awards 2024 in category “Urban Design and Urban Planning: Master Planning and Large-Scale Development”. New York Architectural Design Awards recognizes outstanding projects in the field of architecture, urban planning and industrial design.
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We would like to share more good news! Our Lagonaki All-Season Mountain Eco-Resort project is winner of a gold award of the annual international Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2024, a prestigious award in the field of urban planning and architecture.
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We would like to share the good news with you! Our Yandex Go Project is winner of a gold award of the annual international Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2024, a prestigious award in the field of urban planning and architecture.
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Let's start the year with great news! Our Yandex Go Project is winner of a gold award of the annual French Design Awards 2023. French Design Awards recognizes outstanding projects in the field of architecture, urban planning and industrial design that meet three qualities: they must be inspiring, unique and stylish.
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Let's start the year with great news! Our Lagonaki All-Season Mountain Eco-Resort project is winner of a silver award of the annual French Design Awards 2023. French Design Awards recognizes outstanding projects in the field of architecture, urban planning and industrial design that meet three qualities: they must be inspiring, unique and stylish.
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Summing up the results of the year past, it is worth pointing out that the RTDA team has done an incredible job.
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We have more great news! Our Lagonaki All-Season Mountain Eco-Resort project won the annual World Design Awards 2023 — one of the most prestigious awards in the world in the field of architecture and design. The World Design Awards recognizes outstanding projects aimed at developing harmonious relationships between architecture and nature, architecture and society, architects and the city.
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We would like to share the good news with you! Our Yandex Go Project won the annual World Design Awards 2023, a prestigious award in the field of world architecture and interior design.
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We have great news! Our Yandex Go project has received the Second Reward in the prestigious Global Architecture & Design Awards 2023.
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At the beginning of October, concrete works were finished at the new Yandex headquarters. Now the erection of elements of the building's façade and roofing structures is underway, and the works on roof covering will begin in November. The building is expected to be completely closed next spring.
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We are excited to announce that our Yandex Go Project was shortlisted for the prestigious international award in the field of interior design, Interior Design Awards 2023.
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We would like to share the good news with you! Our Yandex Go Project won the annual Arch Design Award 2023, a prestigious award in the field of world architecture and interior design. The Arch Design Award recognizes outstanding interior design solutions that focus on the functionality and aesthetic appeal of spaces.
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We would like to share with you truly wonderful news: our project has won the bronze of the international A Design Award & Competition 2023! We are very proud of our Lagonaki all-season mountain eco-resort development concept.
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In the new IT company headquarters monolithic works and installation of metal structures of the underground part have been completed. The amount of construction work underground can be compared to the construction of a 40-story tower.
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Dear all, we would like to share great news with you. The 3rd Part of the Development of Eurasian Cities urban planning research has been already published! Back in 2018, the first book set the goal of the entire work, namely, the definition of common characteristics and unique features of the development of cities..
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Nalchik Resort Town Master Plan has received an Honorable Mention in The International Architecture Awards 2022!
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We want to share good news with you! Our Nalchik Resort Town Master Plan won first place at the annual Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2022. This award is one of the most prestigious in the world in architecture and design. For example, this year such extraordinary bureaus as Ventura + Partners (Portugal), Perkins&Will (USA), Chapman Taylor (UK), querkraft architekten (Austria) and many others took part in it.
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On November 11, the international competition for the best project for the development of the territory of the Yuzhny Port, organized by AEON Corporation and Ferro-Stroy, ended. Our bureau RTDA acted as the operator of the competition.
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RTDA bureau is expanding the geography of its projects and is starting to work in Khakassia with Russian largest aluminum producer - RUSAL. In 2021 RUSAL's housing program acquired a new format. The company has made a decision to build its own construction for employees of high-quality residential areas "RUSAL Minipolis".
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On July 10 the general director of RTDA Marina Lepeshkina presented the Master plan for the development of the territory of Nalchik federal resort to the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic Kazbek Kokov and the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District Yuri Chaika.
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Elena Popova, Head of the Urban Planning Research and Educational Programs Department at RTDA, made a course about urban environment design at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration for students of the Master of Public Policy educational program "Management of Spatial Development Projects".
A'Design Award & Competition is the world's leading annual international design competition. A'Design awards are established across a wide range of creative fields to bring out the best designers of all disciplines in all countries.
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On April 29 Elena Popova, Head of Urban Development Research and Educational Programs Department of RTDA, spoke at the II meeting of the Expert Council under the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation on the formation of a comfortable urban environment.
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Ganna Omelyanenko, Head of the RTDA Internal Expertise Department, lectured to the students of MMGU about rivers in the city. The whole range of issues was raised: the problems of rehabilitation of urban areas, design cases for the formation of embankments and the organization of urban development "by the river"
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The chief architect of the RTDA bureau Dina Dridze and the project architect Anton Petukhov held the seminars for the students of the Moscow State University of Administration of the Moscow Government.
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We cannot but share: a three-day forum "Tourism uniting the Caucasus" was held in Nalchik. One of the speakers was Ivan Astafurov, the chief project architect, head of the urban planning workshop of the RTDA company.
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RTDA participates in educational programs of the MARCH architecture school. As the part of the training children get acquainted to the profession of an architect, we immerse them in the atmosphere of a real workflow.
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On the 9th of February RTDA took part in a series of lectures dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Greater Berlin. The lectures are also connected with the “Unfinished metropolis” exhibition: it tells the history of the city, its past and future, and also highlights Berlin's achievements in urban development and the potential of the Berlin-Brandenburg region.
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On February 5, the students of the Urban Projects Professional Development Programme defended their projects! The programme is developed and conducted jointly by RANEPA and RTDA with the support of DOM.RF.
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Today, within Workshop No. 7 of Mosproekt, a meeting was held between Elena Popova, the head of the department of urban planning studies of RTDA and Boris Uborevich-Borovsky, the Chairman of the Moscow Architectural Society, Member of the Union of Moscow Architects, Professor of Moscow Architectural Institute, Head of the Ub.Design architectural practice.
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The Komfortny Gorod (Convenient City) Conference is an annual event organized by the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of the City of Moscow in conjunction with the Architectural Council of the City of Moscow. This year, the event was transferred to an online format.
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The Project of RTDA „Comprehensive Concept for the Development of the Solovetsky Archipelago" was awarded second place in the 15th anniversary season of the EURASIAN PRIZE 2019-2020 competition. The project was presented in the Urban Planning category.
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Today, on November 23, 2020 the second group started the Urban Projects Professional Development Programme. The speakers touched on the topic of the future of cities "after the pandemic" and increasing in attention to the health of citizens by means of urban planning. The noted the opportunity for students to develop their own new history of urban development in the current situation as part of the programme.
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City administration and RTDA, the winner of the competition for the development of the design code, discussed with representatives of advertising agencies, building owners and businesses an outdoor advertising and signage strategy.
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On September 25, the Head of the Nalchik Administration Taymuraz Akhokhov met with the General Director of RTDA Marina Lepeshkina. RTDA won a tender for the elaboration of a functional program and a territory development plan of Nalchik.
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The first prize got a local practice Bernd Albers Gesellschaft von Architekten GmbH, Berlin. In total, 55 practices from different European countries took part in the competition. And we are happy to announce that RTDA team was among the finalists.
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The exhibition was placed in the glass pavilion of the Gagarin park. Here, the city residents of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk can get acquainted with architectural models of both the current state of the neighborhood units and the proposed concepts for their future renovation.
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An independent jury announced the finalists of the Ernst & Young Business Women 2020 Competition. RTDA General Director Marina Lepeshkina was among the finalists. Noteworthy is that this year 111 women participated in the competition, this is by far a record number of applicants.
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As part of the preparation of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk renovation project and the development of the city’s branding strategy organized by RTDA, a sociocultural study was conducted by Sheredega Consulting Company.
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On February 28, in Tyumen, the results of the All-Russian Competition for creating a comfortable urban environment in small towns and historical settlements were summed up. In total, 300 concepts were received to participate in the competition, of which 80 best projects were selected. These projects will receive a state grant in the amount of 30 to 100 million rubles.
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In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the conference on the development of the architectural and urban planning concepts for the renovation of neighborhood units 4, 7 and 8 was successfully over. After exploring sights such as the Gorny Vozdukh Ski Resort and the Museum of Local Lore, the designers met with the Governor of the Sakhalin Region Mr. Valery Limarenko and the Mayor of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Mr. Sergei Nadsadin.
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In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the first day of the conference devoted to preparation of the architectural and urban planning development concept of city neighborhood units 4, 7 and 8 was held. The site visit was conducted by the chief architect of the city Mr. Maxim Efanov and the senior architect of RTDA Ms. Maria Vinogradova-Frank.
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RTDA in conjunction with the Department of Territorial Development of the School of Design of the RANEPA Institute of Social Sciences under the sponsorship of DOM.RF opens application for a ‘City Projects’ professional development program. As last year, the program is supervised by the Chief Architect of Moscow Mr. Sergey Kuznetsov.
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RTDA began work on the study, systematization and preparation for publication of the archive of the famous Russian sociologist Tamara Dridze. The creative director and chief architect of RTDA Dina Dridze, the granddaughter of Tamara Dridze supervise the work.
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The competition was announced by Russian Railways this summer. The operator of the competition is the architectural bureau RTDA. The project will create a modern social and business district, the core of which will be an office complex RZD. An area of 20.6 Ha is 5 km from the Kremlin, at the intersection of the Third Ring Road and Prospekt Mira.
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RTDA continues to expand the project geography! RTDA will take part in 2 large projects in Kamchatka. The first project is aimed at creating a "Medvezhya gora (Bear Mountain)" tourist cluster located at the foot of the Vilyuchinsky volcano, 70 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The project will provide for the creation of a modern ski resort with hotel and recreation infrastructure.
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As part of a large-scale renovation project in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a city design code will be developed to determine the new look of the island capital. The project will be led by RTDA, the regional center renovation operator. To work on the draft design code, it is planned to involve the Ostozhenka architecture firm and the studio of Artemy Lebedev.
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World Architecture Festival 2019, the main architectural event of the year, was held this week in Amsterdam. The festival program lasted 3 days and ended with a gala dinner in the Beurs van Berlage building, where the results of the festival were reviewed and the winners of the category “project of the year“ announced.
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In February 2019, the Municipality of Sofia launched an international contest to regenerate Sveta Nedelya Square of the Bulgarian capital, which immediately attracted the attention of the architectural world. The competition was attended by the largest architectural companies and expert teams from all around the world (Studio Fuksas, Studio Paola Vigano, One Works, Maofficina, Сracknell, Studio Wilmotte, Studio Paola Vigano and others).
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RTDA received the second award at the Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2019 (UDAD) in the Urban Planning category for the architectural and urban planning concept for the future campus of ITMO Highpark University.
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On November 30, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a meeting of the governor of the Sakhalin Region Valery Limarenko with representatives of the city hall was held, in which the RTDA CEO Marina Lepeshkina took part. At the meeting, a renovation concept of the island capital was discussed.
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On November 21, the IV annual Comfort City conference organized by the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow, the program of the conference by RTDA (with the participation of the General Plan Institute of Moscow) was held at the Artplay design center, Moscow.
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According to tradition, the main architectural event of the forum is the section “Creative Environment and Urban Planning” curated by the chief architect of Moscow, Sergey Kuznetsov. The section hosted the first 2-hour discussion on the topic “Innovative Infrastructure as a Competitive Advantage in the Struggle for Human Capital” moderated by Marina Lepeshkina, General Director of RTDA.
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Within the framework of the Zodchestvo 2019 festival, the round table "Undeveloped urban connections. How to make Yauza river accessible? ” was held. On this discussion table, RTDA was represented by Ganna Omelyanenko, head of the internal expertise department of RTDA, author of a number of works on the rehabilitation of green areas of Moscow and the Moscow Region
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On October 10, the 8th international sports forum “Russia is a sports nation” started in Nizhny Novgorod. Within the framework of this event, the round table “Creation of a comfortable urban environment for sports activities” was held. The General Director of the RTDA architectural bureau Marina Lepeshkina attended as a speaker and took part in one of the hottest topics of the discussion, how to use local features to create a comfortable urban environment for sports activities.
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RTDA got the gold award in the Novum Design Award 2019 international competition in the category ‘Urban Planning and Landscape Design’.
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The Jury of the Open international competition for architectural and urban planning development concept of the Rizhsky freight yard have selected five Finalists to participate in the next Competition Stage. The Competition Proposals will be developed by internationally renowned architectural companies and consortiums. The competition operator is RTDA.
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RTDA won the honorable mention at the Global Architecture & Design Awards 2019 in the Urban Design (Project) nomination for the ITMO University campus project (ITMO Highpark). The project was also awarded this year at prestigious competitions such as the World Architecture Festival (WAF) and the A'Design Award & Competition
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The Jury has selected the Winner of the International Competition for the architectural concept for Sberbank business complex area and Public cultural center. The first place took the largest Japanese and world architectural and engineering company Nikken Sekkei. The competition was run by the RTDA Team.
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RTDA has become part of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). ISOCARP is an international non-governmental association existing since 1965.
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RTDA took part in a unique project - the development of an industrial design concept for the platform of the Nuclotron cryogenic helium complex located in Dubna.
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On July 16, a meeting of experts in the field of urban planning and development of the urban environment with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was held in Tula on the basis of the Octava Creative Industrial Cluster.
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The ITMO Highpark Concept has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival and Awards, WAF in the category Future projects - Masterplanning. The World Architecture Festival (WAF) will be held this year in Amsterdam from 4 to 6 December.
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The Moscow team of architects, urbanists and experts in social and cultural design was shortlisted for the competition for a new look at Sveta Nedelya Square. This was announced by the chief architect of Moscow, Sergey Kuznetsov.
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On June 21, 2019 an on-site Overview Seminar was held for the Participants of the Closed International Architectural and Urban Planning Competition for the Senezh Management Lab.
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RTDA together with the British firm Allies and Morrison received the prestigious international "A 'Design Award " in the "Spatial Design" category for the ITMO Highpark architectural and urban planning concept.
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As a part of the career guidance program organized by the Here and Now Foundation, high school senior from the Tuzhinsky orphanage visited the RTDA office.
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On March 20 and 21, the IX Grushinsky International Sociological Conference, organized by VTsIOM (The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center), was held in Moscow within the walls of the Financial University.
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