For 30 years, we have been
creating spaces that inspire

about us

ATRIUM architectural studio creates distinctive projects across different typologies, shapes a new quality of life, and contributes to global culture

Over 30 years, the company founded by Anton Nadtochiy and Vera Butko has built up experience in solving architectural challenges of different scales — from interiors and landscapes to skyscrapers, large-scale urban planning projects and projects in the metaverse. The studio’s work is based on an individual approach to each project and a contemporary artistic rethinking of functional and spatial tasks. Its projects reflect national and cultural contexts, shape visions of the future, and create a wide range of vivid images and meanings.

Among the most significant projects of recent years, recognised with numerous awards and highly regarded by the professional community, are the new National Centre “Russia”, Symbol Residential District on the site of the former Serp i Molot plant, Ruarts Gallery and Museum, Future Generations Park in Yakutsk, Quantum School in Astana, the Multifunctional Complex in Cheboksary, and the Moscow Youth Centre “Planeta KVN”.

The studio continues to develop its design approach and artistic language through advanced technologies, research and the search for new forms of innovation. This work led to the creation of its own laboratory, ATRIUM Lab. The projects developed within it aim to respond to the key environmental, social and technological challenges of our time.

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The company’s projects are published in both Russian and foreign periodicals and web resources. ATRIUM executives often serve as experts on various topical issues of architecture and urban development at professional conferences and round tables.

ATRIUM projects were presented in exhibitions and festivals such as ARCH Moscow, Zodchestvo, Moscow architectural Biennale, The Golden Ratio. The workshop also participated in foreign exhibitions of Russian architecture: “Other Moscow” in Berlin, Russian interiors (Berlin/Stuttgart), 40×40 and Corian® Springs Russian Design (Milan).

ATRIUM history

1994–1999

ATRIUM’s individual architectural language began to take shape in its first private house and apartment projects, where the key principle was the creation of complex form and spatial structure. Inspired by the discoveries of the Soviet avant-garde and its abstract aesthetic, the architects sought to create spaces governed by a single architectural idea — one that unites the entire project and shapes both its key images and the design of individual elements and details.

2000–2010

The philosophy of abstract form found its clearest expression in private house projects. They brought together the ideas of deconstructivism and parametric architecture that were relevant at the time, and laid the foundation for the studio’s later architectural experiments. The creation of a distinctive form that reflects the qualities of the contemporary world — dynamism, complexity and multiplicity — remains one of the key aims in ATRIUM’s work today.

2010–2015

At this stage, ATRIUM moved beyond a local Moscow practice and established itself as a studio capable of working with complex architecture, urban environments and major competition briefs at the same time.

Alongside the delivery of landmark projects in Moscow — Barkli Park, Vodny and Planeta KVN — the studio began to work actively in other Russian cities, from Krasnodar to Yakutsk. An important milestone was its collaboration with leading international studios, including MVRDV, Maxwan, Massimiliano Fuksas, Atelier PRO, and later Antonio Citterio and ARCHEA.

This period marked ATRIUM’s shift from the authorial plasticity of a single building towards a more complex and layered approach, where architecture was understood as part of a wider urban, cultural and public context.

2015–2020

In the second half of the 2010s, ATRIUM significantly increased the scale and complexity of its practice. The studio increasingly acted as general designer, taking responsibility for the full cycle of work — from concept to completion. It was during this period that educational architecture became one of the studio’s key areas of expertise. The defining project was Letovo School, where ATRIUM acted as Russian co-author and general designer during the implementation stage.

At the same time, the studio developed major residential and public complexes, public spaces and elements of new urban infrastructure: the quarters and Green River Park within the Symbol Residential District, Four Points by Sheraton in Krasnodar, and projects in Kazakhstan, Yakutia and other regions.

During this period, ATRIUM’s architecture became not only an expressive form, but also a tool for programming spatial scenarios — residential, educational, public and landscape.

2020–today

In the first half of the 2020s, ATRIUM fully established itself as an interdisciplinary studio working at the intersection of architecture, research, digital environments and cultural initiatives. Alongside new residential, public and educational projects, the studio systematised its experience in the research book Architecture of Development, dedicated to the design of contemporary schools. At the same time, ATRIUM began to explore new formats of architectural expression — from the ATRIUM Virtual Gallery in the metaverse to the anniversary pavilion Meta-formation at ARCH Moscow, where architecture was presented as an immersive and interactive environment.

During these years, the practice expanded both internationally and typologically, with projects in Central Asia and the MENA region, new residential quarters, cultural spaces, schools and kindergartens.

Today, ATRIUM is a large author-led studio with a strong research-based and technological position, capable of working both with the real urban fabric and with new digital formats.

about the founders

The history of ATRIUM began in 1994, when Anton Nadtochiy and Vera Butko started their joint architectural practice. Their partnership became the source of the studio’s further development.

Both graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute. Vera worked at Mosproject, while Anton worked in Vladislav Kirpichev’s studio and wrote a theoretical paper on Peter Eisenman. Yet the most important thing about the founders of ATRIUM is their approach to architecture itself — independent of scale and time. They began with shopfronts and interiors, but their shared inner core, which also became the direction of the studio’s development, proved strong and consistent through every stage of its growth. Over time, it began to bring together more and more projects with apparent ease: residential and public interiors, private houses, small and large urban buildings, quarters and even entire cities.

For more than three decades, Anton and Vera have anticipated their time, setting one of the most forward-looking directions in the industry through an aesthetic shaped at the intersection of expressive form-making and deep conceptual meaning. Their names are closely associated with innovation, scale and the depth of projects that shape the image of the future.

author-led architecture

today, as the studio works at a large scale, ATRIUM continues to see itself as an author-led practice, with the founders personally involved in its projects

For each brief, Anton and Vera seek to find the ideal form and give it meaning. One of ATRIUM’s key ideas — space can inspire — defines not only its architecture, but also the way the studio thinks about the project, the client, the city and the user.

The key to ATRIUM’s development lies in the transformation of the architectural studio into an experimental think tank. Every public activity becomes a way to shape a position within the current professional agenda and expand the studio’s own expertise.

ATRIUM is committed to developing the professional environment and the quality of architecture in Russia. We therefore openly share our experience: we teach at the Moscow Architecture School MARCH, give talks and lectures at leading professional platforms, take part in exhibitions, and support educational and research initiatives.

For 30 years, we have been creating spaces that inspire