GES-2

The former power station on Bolotnaya Embankment — the 2019–2021 rebuild, Fischer’s clay, the vault, and June 2026 stills.

GES-2 stands on Bolotnaya Embankment, next to the House on the Embankment — not the square, the neighbouring canal bank.

A city power station of 1904–1907 (engineer Mikhail Polivanov, facade by Vasily Bashkirov). Rebuilt from 2015 by Renzo Piano Building Workshop; on 4 December 2021 it opened as the GES-2 House of Culture (V-A-C Foundation). The blue stacks are the tell.

In August 2021 Urs Fischer’s aluminium Big Clay No. 4 was assembled on the quay.

Phone stills, 2019–2026. Not every frame from the albums: the rebuild, the clay, the vault, the canal. The hall with visitors from behind is not in the set.

July 2019. GES-2 frame, cranes and a barge from Vodootvodny Canal.

April 2020. The arched glazing, scaffolding still inside.

July 2020. White facade, a crane, the embankment steps before the clay.

February 2021. Winter, Piano’s blue stacks already up.

July 2021. From the canal — the hall, the stacks, the quay almost done.

14 August 2021. A crane sets Urs Fischer’s Big Clay No. 4.

22 August 2021. The sculpture standing on the embankment steps.

May 2022. Birch vault on the roof — part of Piano’s scheme.

May 2022. The clay, blue cubes and people on Bolotnaya Embankment.

June 2022. From the canal — stacks, arches and a four on the water.

11 October 2022. Yakimanskaya Embankment on Vodootvodny Canal, from the GES-2 steps.

October 2022. GES-2 at night.

13 October 2022. GES-2 from the canal.

17 October 2022. Big Clay and the canal, blue cubes.

31 October 2022. GES-2 at night.

2 December 2022. GES-2 in winter, from the canal.

18 March 2023. GES-2, clear sky.

April 2023. Washing the glass. The house of culture is already open.

21 April 2023. GES-2 and its reflection in the canal.

20 October 2025. Evening on the canal, GES-2 stacks.

20 October 2025. GES-2 stacks and the Udarnik dome in mesh.

20 June 2026. The hall from the ramp, brick vaults of the yard.

20 June 2026. Facade, stacks and a crane by Vodootvodny Canal (at Maly Kamenny).

20 June 2026. Works under Maly Kamenny Bridge, seen from GES-2.

20 June 2026. The birch vault in summer.

20 June 2026. Model of GES-2 inside the house of culture.