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El Lissitzky’s Cloud Iron was eight cantilevered horizontal skyscrapers, predicated around the ... neo-classical architecture that you can still find across the Soviet world started to take ...
FIFA describes it as "classic Soviet architecture ... floor structure has been spruced up slightly for the World Cup with scaffolding around its base festooned with FIFA images and welcome ...
The curious thing about Soviet brutalist architecture is that it is incredibly rich in profoundly photogenic buildings that appear simultaneously utopian in their conception and intent and distinctly ...
One architectural historian has estimated that 170 million people around the world live in Soviet-style ... Comfort Town may be a reaction to Soviet architecture, Snopek said, but “what I ...
Georgia was born as an independent post-Soviet republic ... all I could see around me was a nation that had been living in a kind of box for 70 years. For me, Soviet-era architecture is a ...
Soviet Sport., which featured 40 ... Iofan’s winning entry stirred debate around the world about the future of modern architecture. Moscow’s Central Committee praised it as the “Vatican ...
A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow’s metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it’s a mistake to commemorate ...
The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder ...
‘Visiting a sanatorium is like stepping back in time,’ writes Maryam Omidi in Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums, in which she takes the reader on a health-conscious journey into a world of peeling ...