Zodchestvo 2024: Most Talented Architect award

Lex te Loo Architects took home the «Most Talented Architect» award at the Zodchestvo 2024 festival in Moscow, presenting our Astrakhan Hills masterplan. The festival is the central annual gathering of the Russian architecture community, and the award recognises young practices producing the most distinctive design and territorial work.

We presented the Astrakhan Hills masterplan — a 250,000 m² mixed-use territorial proposal for a hillside site overlooking the Volga delta. The project was shown alongside a manifesto on the studio's approach to working with terrain, sun, and climate from the very first concept move.

Below: Lex with team members holding the diploma at the festival exhibition wall. The team also had the chance to walk through the festival's wider exhibition and meet other practices showing work this year.

More on the Astrakhan Hills project will follow in a separate update — including the masterplan boards shown at the festival, the territorial diagrams that drove the proposal, and the residential typology developed for the site.