Gazeta.ru news agency office, Moscow | Dmitry Ovcharov

Client: news agency Gazeta.ru

Architects: Nefa Architects (Nefaresearch)


Location: Danilovskaya Manufactura, Moscow, Russia

Chief Architect: Dmitry Ovcharov

Authors Team: Dmitry Ovcharov, Elena Potemkina

Architects: Maria Nasonova, Margarita Kornienko 

Chief Engineer: Sergey Kurepin

Project Management: Daria Turkina, Maria Boyko

Visualization:  Dmitry Tridenov, Rustam Yusupov

Lighting Designer:  Varvara Shchetinina (THIRTEEN STUDIO)

General  Contractor: «Шафран»(Shafran)

Area: 600.0 sqm

Year: 2016

Photographs: Ilya Ivanov

Furniture: Vitra, Prooff, Tolix, Bonaldo, Roche Boboise

Lighting: Vibia, Artemida, Flos, Linealight, Loft, Planlicht, SLV; supplier- Aura City

  Floors: self-levelling  polymeric floors

Gazeta.ru is one of the oldest news agencies in Russia. Owned by a large media holding Rambler&Co, the editorial office of Gazeta.ru was relocated to Danilovskaya Manufactura, a 19th century former manufacture building, to join other subdivisions of the media group.

Business goal. The challenge was to create a comfortable and multifunctional work space for a journalists' team that included areas for different activities - zones for concentrated work along with various meeting and social spaces.

The editorial office of Gazeta.ru occupies the third and the fourth floors of a 4-storey building. Office accommodation comprises workspace areas for individuals and teams, meeting rooms, lounge-zones, mini coffee points as well as a kitchen-dining-room located on the 4th mansard floor.

Besides, employees can use a multifunctional hall equipped with most modern audio-visual equipment for conferences, lectures, meetings and presentations. Formally, the hall belongs to Championat.com – another subdivision of the media holding Rambler&Co - but both teams have it at their disposal.

The whole publication process is very fast so the speed of communications between different departments is extremely important. That`s why working desks are placed in an open space. The chief editor`s and his assistants` cabinets are located right in the middle of the editorial office for the convenience of communications and information transfer with all the departments of the news agency.

The portal`s reports cover a wide range of news: politics, style, auto news. Architects decided to show the scope of information the agency reported using only one color- White. Graphic black accents on the floors and windows create an image of a newspaper page or an information web-site.

The interior is made up mostly with custom furniture produced in local workshops according to the architects` sketches.