Michel Pena, French landscape architect, will create an improvement project of the right bank of the Kazanka River

A new park and embankment will be built on Sibgat Khakim street – from the Millennium Bridge to the Kremlevskaya dam.

Michel Pena, one of the best landscape architects in France, will develop a project for landscape development of the territory along Sibgat Khakim street from the Millennium Bridge to the Kremlevskaya (Leninskaya) dam. A new park and embankment will be built on this site.

For information, Michel Pena is the President of the PaySages environmental Association (Nice/Paris), President of the French Federation of landscape architects (2008-2011), member of the UNESCO Academic Council for Causses/Cevennes landscape (2016 -2018), consultant to the Mayor’s Association of France, author of a number of books and publications on landscape design, professor in France and abroad.

The technical task for the development of the landscape project of the right bank of the Kazanka River was prepared with the participation of specialists of the Department of architecture and urban planning of the Executive Committee of Kazan. Michel Pena will create an advanced concept for the improvement of this important territory for Kazan and the new symbol of the capital of Tatarstan- the Kazan family center, which will be linked to the development strategy of the Kazanka River. It is expected that project will be developed by the end of 2020.

Michel Pena's projects are not only beautiful and sustainable -they contribute to the cultural content of the environment, strengthening the emotional connections of citizens with the urban landscape. Therefore, in Paris, Michel Pena created the Atlantic garden park on the roof of the Montparnasse station, which became the first in France landscape “green” roof with eco-engineering. Also in Paris, he became the author of projects for the Bagnolet Park, the reconstruction of the Auteil hippodrome, the promenade d'Auteuil, the improvement of tram tracks and the surrounding area in the Maraixot district, and the Jean Moulin Park in Montreuil.

In Nice, the Paillon Promenade Park was created on the Pena’s project, the peculiarity of which is that it is located above the bed of the mountain river. Thanks to complex engineering solutions, Michel Pena managed to place a full-scale botanical garden on a relatively small depth.

In Russia, Michel Pena was working on the concept of the VDNKh landscape park in Moscow. This public space, opened in 2018, is divided into five natural zones where unusual landscape attractions are created. For example, an aquatic garden for walking on pontoons, where exotic aquatic plants bloom. Another example is a green maze in the shape of a chessboard, its walls are formed by a hedge of various trees and shrubs. In addition, the architect became the author of some public spaces in Beijing and Zhengzhou in China.