Posted October 23, 200618 yr commie-tecture? :lol: this guy had a show and wants to make a book. more info on the link below. it's an unknown mysterious world & kind of groovy: Polytechnic University (Minsk, Belarus, 1981) It looks like a set from Star Wars.. Wedding Palace (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985) The architect who designed this building was influenced by a sketch of an imaginary city drawn by a Russian artist. “Roads Ministry” (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1975) Local people call this building the Monster.. “Soviet Palace” (Kalinigrad, Russia, 1975) “Druzhba Holiday Center Hall” (Yalta, Ukraine, 1984) link: http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/09/13/frederic-chaubin-soviet-sf-style/
October 23, 200618 yr I think the first two and the last one are WAY cool. An updated version of tlast one would be cool overlooking CBS and NCH or in Ohio City overlooking the flats/downtown.
October 23, 200618 yr I think that they are all actually pretty cool! Great thread thanks for the neat architecture set!!!
October 24, 200618 yr Wow! Very cool. We would never have any buildings like this Cleveland today. Everyone would want them torn down so a new condensed government office building could be produced in its place.
October 24, 200618 yr Awesome buildings. And awesome emoticon ---> "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 24, 200618 yr Tell me the N. Kentucky shyline isn't going to owe Tbilisi, Georgia a little, tiny tip of the hat. :-) Beautiful buildings. Deepens my interest in eastern block Europe all the more!
October 25, 200618 yr not that it matters, but hasn't the soviet palace been abandoned for quite some time now
October 25, 200618 yr Have you all heard of Russian Constructivism? From back in the 1920s until the Stalin era? They where doing some pretty agressive designs back then already, and some of these newer ones seem to harken back to the old 1920s Constructivists. (and yes, Rem Koolhaas and his followers (and Zaha) owe a debt to Constructivism, too). ...and their "disurbanist" urban planning did away with the city ..totally communist utopia, but it looks like the later commie architects where picking up on the aesthetic.
October 25, 200618 yr Those are all pretty cool! I like the "wedding palace"... it almost looks like a church.
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