My favorite soviet building:<a class="user" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/pc**kburn0413.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/pc**kburn0413.html</a>The hotel Moskva is interesting. The architect, in order to offer a choice to Stalin, drew up the plans and had the wings in two different styles on the plan. Instead of choosing, Stalin simply initialed the diagram. The architect, out of fear of offending the dictator, built it as drawn.at this link, second image down you can see that the left and right wings are very different.<a class="user" href="http://hotel-moskva.ru/index.en.html">http://hotel-moskva.ru/index.en.html</a> This hotel is pictured on the Stolichnaya label.Oh and you gotta love this copy on the hotel web site: " Despite of the huge changes which have occurred in the country, the hotel still borrows one of conducting places in system of a hotel facilities of the capital. All new and advanced is applied in the hotel. The majority of hotel's rooms corresponds all international standards. The main principle of work and management of the hotel is to be modern."What does that first sentence mean?
Closed AccountDec 6, 2006
My favorite soviet building:<a class="user" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/pc**kburn0413.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/pc**kburn0413.html</a>The hotel Moskva is interesting. The architect, in order to offer a choice to Stalin, drew up the plans and had the wings in two different styles on the plan. Instead of choosing, Stalin simply initialed the diagram. The architect, out of fear of offending the dictator, built it as drawn.at this link, second image down you can see that the left and right wings are very different.<a class="user" href="http://hotel-moskva.ru/index.en.html">http://hotel-moskva.ru/index.en.html</a> This hotel is pictured on the Stolichnaya label.Oh and you gotta love this copy on the hotel web site: " Despite of the huge changes which have occurred in the country, the hotel still borrows one of conducting places in system of a hotel facilities of the capital. All new and advanced is applied in the hotel. The majority of hotel's rooms corresponds all international standards. The main principle of work and management of the hotel is to be modern."What does that first sentence mean?
pureliquidhwDec 6, 2006
if i could live there, I'd be a happy man...eh.
Closed AccountDec 6, 2006
Wow, fugliest building award winner. The style is fascinating but the color...why?
spankee666Dec 6, 2006
It looks like there are really a few types of architecture on the webpage. The first one looks much like Futurism.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist_architecture">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist_architecture</a>The rest of the them on the webpage look like Constructivist.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_architecture">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_architecture</a>A lot of people that are linking the US and Western Europe architecture that "looks like" the USSR architecture are actually more closely related to Brutalism.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism</a>These were all different time periods, so I just wanted to give people links so they can learn a little more about the context.
roostishawDec 7, 2006
Wow. If these are real, thats impressive.
lifeprongDec 7, 2006
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
duelusDec 7, 2006
ya the water gardens in fortworth, the part with the pool is now closed off, drained and has a chainlink fenjce around it. a few people drownded it it.. see what it was like all these waterfalls and you walked down into the pool at the bottom, no gaurd rails or anything just these steps that were kinda far apart, other then that the rest is still all openthis is what I'm talking about<a class="user" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=32.747864,-97.325976&spn=0.001649,0.002511&t=k">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=32.747864,-97.325976&spn=0.001649,0.002511&t=k</a>
whateveragainDec 7, 2006
In America we just slap up a machine shed and call it a church.