 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
Sevkabel Port is a public space for culture and business created as a result of the reorganization of the industrial "Grey Belt" of Vasilyevsky Island harbour in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [1]
The public space is located on part of the land of the Sevkabel factory, the oldest cable manufacturing factory in Russia. It was founded by the German industrialist Werner Siemens in 1879 as a factory of the Siemens & Halske company for the production of lamps, cables, and switches. [2]
In 1918, the factory was nationalized and given its present name. It subsequently made a substantial contribution to the electrification of the entire USSR.[ citation needed ]
In 2017, the management of the factory decided to upgrade the area and make it a public site in Saint Petersburg with access to the sea. The industrial area gradually developed into a cultural and business space. [3] [4] As part of the production modernization, the Sevkabel factory has moved its capacities to its shops at Kozhevennaya 39, thus freeing up 20% of its total space for the creation of a cultural and business project. [5]
Sevkabel Port was officially opened in September 2018, [6] but the visitors could attend the first event a month after the start of the renovation – in June 2017. An outdoor winter ice rink has been open since November 2018 on the territory of Sevkabel Port. The official name of the ice rink with an area of more than 2,200 m2 is the Rink by the Sea. [7]
In the summer of 2019, at the XV Congress of Organization of World Heritage Cities in Krakow, Saint Petersburg was represented by five projects, one of which was Sevkabel Port, which became the winner of the Jean-Paul-L'Allier Prize. [8] A commemorative plaque was installed in honour of this victory of Saint Petersburg. It also hosted Present Perfect, a three-day electronic music festival with more than 60 artists from around the world. The Berlin music duo Modeselektor headlined the festival. The annual summer music festival STEREOLETO has been held at Sevkabel Port since 2019.[ citation needed ]
In the summer of 2021, the exhibition “Andy Warhol and Russian Art” took place at Sevkabel Port, displaying over 100 works by Andy Warhol.
In the autumn of 2021, an international multimedia art exhibition “Hydra. New Media Art in the Context of Eco-Anxiety” took place. Artists from Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, and the UK took part in it.
In 2021, the exhibition space became fully operational. [9]
In May 2022, the inclusive cluster Normal Place was opened in Sevkabel Port in Saint Petersburg. It is a space in which non-profit organizations and social entrepreneurs develop their projects. A coworking space is available here, as well as a variety of workshops and art practices.
In 2022, the “Balabanov” travelling exhibition in memory of Alexei Balabanov opened at Sevkabel Port. The project won the annual “Petersburg of the Future” award.
The area allocated for the cluster is situated between the Neva river and the Kozhevennaya line. About one fifth of it — the area near the water — is separated. Sevkabel Port is located on the banks of the Neva in Vasilyevsky Island harbour, close to the Maritime Station, a monument to Soviet brutalism. [7]
There are several buildings on the site of the new multifunctional space: a three-storey factory management building of the late 19th century with a chimney, a one-storey building designed for the production of cable reels at the factory. A chain of open public spaces has formed around the perimeter of the largest building. [10]
The gates on Kozhevennaya line between the 19th century brick building and the 20th century concrete one — four large rotatable Corten pylons — mark both the factory's past and the creative present of the area, which is an art object that is changed every season. [11]
The open space behind the mansion is divided into two unequal parts: one, which is slightly larger, is allocated to the festival area. The other, smaller but adjacent to the river, became a multifunctional area with a convertible amphitheatre, sun loungers, and an ice rink in winter.
The historic red-brick buildings are mainly used for small workshops, bureaus, and offices, with catering outlets on the ground floors. The Soviet administrative building accommodates a variety of educational and sports projects, as well as shops. The largest production hall, which forms the sea front, includes a multipurpose area, a concert club, and a restaurant on the ground level. The second-level houses the exhibition space. [11]
The pier functions here. This is a particular pride of the architects, as it fully justifies the name “Port” assigned to the new creative space.
The alley is lined with coil lights inspired by coil installations, with light reflecting off wooden structures. Such lights have wheels, they are mobile and can be easily moved and rearranged. [2]
The first of the buildings open to the public, the former cable tare area, has been given a deep portal decorated with "recessed" circle lamps in the wall, allowing light to be cast through the metal. [12]
Street art murals and the pier tower are highlighted by lights with narrow oval optics.
Special anti-vandal grids have been developed for all ground-mounted units to protect the lights but not to distort the light output.
There is also the first direct current generator in the USSR, the Tesla coil, located on the Sea Square of Sevkabel Port. It consists of a cascade of transformers designed for 1,500,000 volts. It was formerly located in the factory's laboratory, which also had a 2,000,000-volt direct current generator and a 3,000,000-volt pulse generator. The laboratory was set up in 1947 under the direction of Chief Engineer and Director Dmitry Bykov, and the generator was created in 1949 for practical testing of scientific developments [13]
Scandinavium is an indoor arena located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Construction on Scandinavium began in 1969 after decades of setbacks, and was inaugurated on 18 May 1971.
Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. The observatory is a popular tourist attraction with a close view of the Hollywood Sign and an extensive array of space and science-related displays. It is named after its benefactor, Griffith J. Griffith. Admission has been free since the observatory's opening in 1935, in accordance with the benefactor's will.
1000 de la Gauchetière is a skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named for its address at 1000 De la Gauchetière Street West in the downtown core. It is Montreal's tallest building as per the height definition of the National Building Code of Canada that is used by the city of Montreal, which excludes spires. For international comparison, spires are included as per the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's most widely used height definition for building height and the building is thus the second tallest building as per this definition. It rises to the maximum elevation approved by the city at 232.5m above mean sea level with a total height from the average ground level around first floor to roof of 205m (673ft) and 51 floors. A popular feature of the building is its atrium, which holds a large ice skating rink. The building was not subject to the 1992 municipal maximum height of 200m because it was finished in 1992.
A hub dynamo is a small electrical generator built into the front hub of a bicycle wheel that is usually used to power lights. Often the hub "dynamo" is not actually a dynamo, which creates DC, but a low-power magneto that creates AC. Most modern hub dynamos are regulated to 3 watts at 6 volts, although some will drive up to 6 watts at 12 volts.
The Tampa Museum of Art is located in downtown Tampa, Florida. It exhibits modern and contemporary art, as well as Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities. The museum opened its first exhibit on November 22, 1920 when the institution was called the Tampa Museum of Fine Arts. After many address changes during the institution's first several decades, it debuted an award-winning new building in 2010 for its permanent location along Tampa's Riverwalk on the banks of Hillsborough River.
The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida was founded by the art collector Margaret Acheson Stuart. The museum is based in a building designed by John Volk & Associates, and opened in 1965.
Performance Space New York, formerly known as Performance Space 122 or P.S. 122, is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1980 in the East Village of Manhattan in an abandoned public school building.
The Museum of Islamic Art is a museum on one end of the seven-kilometer-long (4.3 mi) Corniche in Doha, Qatar. As per the architect I. M. Pei's specifications, the museum is built on an island off an artificial projecting peninsula near the traditional dhow harbor. A purpose-built park surrounds the edifice on the eastern and southern facades while two bridges connect the southern front facade of the property with the main peninsula that holds the park. The western and northern facades are marked by the harbor showcasing the Qatari seafaring past. In September 2017, Qatar Museums appointed Julia Gonnella as director of MIA. In 2024 Julia Gonnella became director of the Lusail Museum and was replaced by Shaika Nasser Al-Nassr. In November 2022 the MIA became the first carbon-neutral certified museum in the Middle East Region. The museum participated in the Expo 2023 Doha from October 2023 until March 2024, with workshops and events focusing on biodiversity and sustainability.
A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the alternating-current alternator, and the rotary converter.
The Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse is a historical building that is used as a complex that includes a shopping mall, banquet hall, and event venues. The complex, officially known as the Newport Pier Bonded Warehouse, was originally used as customs buildings, and has two sections: Warehouse No.1 and No.2. It is operated by Yokohama Akarenga Co. Ltd., and located at the Port of Yokohama in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Electric power transmission, the tools and means of moving electricity far from where it is generated, date back to the late 19th century. They include the movement of electricity in bulk and the delivery of electricity to individual customers ("distribution"). In the beginning, the two terms were used interchangeably.
René Thury was a Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering. He was known for his work with high voltage direct current electricity transmission and was known in the professional world as the "King of DC."
Downtown Rochester is the economic center of Rochester, New York, and the 2nd largest in Upstate New York, employing more than 50,000 people, and housing more than 6,000.
Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell is an American contemporary artist, filmmaker and ufologist based in Los Angeles, California. Initially gaining prominence as a visual artist, by the late 2010s Corbell became a well known figure in the UFO community, producing documentary films and podcasts on the subject.
Copper has been used in electrical wiring since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph in the 1820s. The invention of the telephone in 1876 created further demand for copper wire as an electrical conductor.
Lekki is a city in Lagos State, Nigeria. It is located to the south-east of Lagos city. Lekki is a naturally formed peninsula, adjoining to its west Victoria Island and Ikoyi districts of Lagos, with the Atlantic Ocean to its south, Lagos Lagoon to the north, and Lekki Lagoon to its east; however, the city's southeast, which ends around the western edge of Refuge Island, adjoins the eastern part of Ibeju-Lekki LGA.
Erarta Galleries are the three galleries established in the 2010s in London (UK), Hong Kong (China) and St. Petersburg (Russia) with a goal to promote contemporary art in the corresponding country and outside its borders. The project itself is a private institution. A promotional process is based on reinvestments from sales of art pieces back into the project. In 2016, two of these galleries were closed; only the gallery in St. Petersburg survived up to now.
Artmuza is a contemporary art gallery and a creative space in Saint Petersburg on Vasilievsky Island in Russia. Since 2013, it has been at the location of the former factory of musical instruments "Muzdetal".
Glenstone is a private contemporary art museum in Potomac, Maryland, founded in 2006 by American billionaire Mitchell Rales and his wife, Emily Wei Rales. The museum's exhibitions are drawn from a collection of about 1,300 works from post-World War II artists around the world. It is the largest private contemporary art museum in the United States, holding more than $4.6 billion in net assets, and is noted for its setting in a broad natural landscape.
