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Bureau

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about us

We provide a complete range of services for cultural heritage properties: product development and use strategies, master planning, restoration and adaptive reuse, architecture and interior design. We support approvals and project implementation.

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Experts in Reviving Cultural Heritage Sites

The bureau’s multidisciplinary approach combines historical research and contemporary thinking, restoration and design, business, architecture and art. We describe this approach as Revival.

BOMAR was one of the first architecture bureaus in Russia to discuss cultural heritage properties as an investment resource. Since 2014, the bureau has been adapting heritage buildings for contemporary uses.

The bureau holds licence No. 24728 from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation to carry out cultural heritage conservation work.

The bureau is a member of a self-regulatory organisation (SRO), registration number 1217700648626, and an accredited contractor of DOM.RF.

BOMAR is a registered trademark. Rospatent registration certificate No. 1037159.

BOMAR is a member of the Russian Association of Restorers and the National Union of the Hospitality Industry.

Марианна Петренко, основатель архитектурного бюро BOMAR.

Marianna Petrenko

Founder and head of BOMAR architecture bureau

Marianna Petrenko is the founder and head of BOMAR architecture bureau, an architect, interior designer and advocate for the revival of cultural heritage.

She is a cultural heritage conservation specialist certified by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. She is a member of the Russian Association of Restorers, the Historic Real Estate Investors Club and the National Union of the Hospitality Industry, and an honorary member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Marianna Vladimirovna Petrenko was born in Moscow on June 15, 1986. After graduating from art school with honors in 2000, Marianna later entered the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry. Alongside her university studies, she worked in Vadim Buynovsky’s workshop at Patriarch’s Ponds.

Already during her studies, Marianna defined the main direction of her professional interests and devoted her diploma project to a cultural heritage site, a monument of Constructivism — the garage by architect Konstantin Melnikov. For this site, she developed a concept for its adaptation into a museum.

In 2013, Marianna Petrenko opened her own architectural bureau — Architecture Bureau by Marianna Petrenko — and, from 2014, focused its work on heritage, actively participating in projects dedicated to the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage sites

One of the bureau’s significant projects was the adaptation of an 18th-century historic mansion in Elohovskiy Proezd. Within the project, Marianna Petrenko went beyond restoration tasks: a gallery was created inside the mansion. Beneath the mosaic vaults of Elohovskiy Gallery,

ideas that Marianna had always cared deeply about came together — the interweaving of the historic spirit and architecture of the place with the contemporary context and its needs.

After successfully completing professional retraining in the program “Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage” and receiving certification from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in the field of cultural heritage preservation as an architect, Marianna Petrenko decided to fully dedicate her creative work to projects that enrich the country’s historical heritage and preserve it for future generations.

At the end of 2023, Marianna Petrenko’s bureau underwent rebranding and received the name Bureau of Modern Art and Architecture Revival, BOMAR.

The geography of the bureau’s projects has long extended beyond Russia, with completed projects in different parts of the world. Today, the bureau’s portfolio covers more than 20 cities, and this number continues to grow. BOMAR also actively works with contemporary architecture; however, its key focus remains projects connected with the revival and preservation of architectural monuments.

Marianna Petrenko is the founder and head of BOMAR architecture bureau, an architect, interior designer and advocate for the revival of cultural heritage. She is a cultural heritage conservation specialist certified by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. She is a member of the Russian Association of Restorers, the Historic Real Estate Investors Club and the National Union of the Hospitality Industry, and an honorary member of the Union of Artists of Russia.