Russian and Soviet Architecture
June 16th, 2007
Controversy continues over the skyscraper project proposed by Russian energy giant Gazprom. The project is a frequent topic for St. Petersburg newspapers and television. This video from Russia Today takes a look at the controversial plans to drastically change the St. Petersburg skyline.
April 3rd, 2007
The Schusev State Museum of Architecture has some very nice online galleries featuring photos and drawings from the Stalin era. The first gallery features drawings of grandiose, yet unrealized, architectural projects. The second gallery, entitled “Life Became Better, Comrades, Life Became More Cheerful”, features photos of Moscow celebrations and construction projects from the same era.
Link: The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Unrealized projects
Link: Life Became Better, Comrades, Life Became More Cheerful
March 19th, 2007
A view of the Kremlin taken from the Big Stone Bridge. Photo By: Eldar Vagapov
March 14th, 2007
Moscow photographer Sergey has published a collection of photographs featuring Russian power plants. We stumbled across these photos and found them very interesting. We asked Sergey why he took the pictures.
“Why do I take the pictures of the power plants? Well, these monster buildings are very unusual for town environment and they attract me by some inexplicable beauty. A huge energy inside them amaze my imagination and it borns I guess some emanations to people that look at them.
Sometimes I think looking at them that people waste significant part of their power and it seems that nobody cares of that, at least in Russia.”
Power Plant in Birjulovo, Moscow. It’s cold -15C.
Power Plant in Kapotnia, Moscow
Link: Power Plants at Flickr
March 12th, 2007
St. Petersburg is known for its many waterways and bridges. Petersburg-bridges.com presents a history of these bridges. The site features many old photographs and a detailed history of Petersburg bridges.
Link: petersburg-bridges.com
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