Anastasia Popova, a student of the Institute of Spatial Environment Design of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, took the victorious third place in the all-Russian brick competition for young architects. The project leader is Evgeny Lobanov, Associate Professor of the Department of Interior and Equipment Design of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design. The competition was organized by the publishing house “Balticum” and the company “Archistyle North-West”.
The competition was attended by 120 young architects from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Ufa, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Vladikavkaz, Tambov, Barnaul, Belgorod, Orsk and Azov. The significant number and quality of projects testify to the fact that brick remains one of the most demanded building materials today, which at the same time allows to embody any formal idea and philosophical thought.
The Northern Capital was represented by Anastasia Popova, a student of St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Design, with the project of a photographer's apartment. The apartment in the Leningrad region is owned by a young photographer and his wife. The vaulted ceiling of the six-meter-high room gives space for creating a two-level space illuminated by panoramic arched windows. The shape of the arch is echoed in the light fixtures.
The open, spacious living room has become the center of the apartment's unified space. The kitchen with a separate pantry passes into the dining room. Areas for the photographer's work: closet, dressing room, which overlook the photo zone. On the mezzanine there is a bedroom with a bathroom and a study with a home library.
The combination of brick and glass is a leitmotif in the interior. Brick is used in the construction of individual pieces of furniture: brickwork on the facade of the kitchen island and a coffee table on a brick support. The high vaulted ceilings are emphasized by unusually shaped pendant lights.


