Soviet Architecture

Cidade_Branca · August 15th, 2008, 06:34 PM

BUILDINGS

PROJECTOS

Junkie · August 15th, 2008, 06:38 PM

I dont like them. Only I like the Stalinist sisters in Moscow.

Lattice · August 15th, 2008, 08:33 PM

The Hyperboloid steel tower-gridshell by Vladimir Shukhov:

"Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition."
by English, Elizabeth Cooper, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania, 2000, 264 pages; AAT 9989589.

Lattice · August 15th, 2008, 08:37 PM

The Melnikov House, Moscow, 1929:

There are all projects by Konstantin Melnikov:
http://home.iae.nl/users/wie/melnikov/projectenlijst
The Horseshoe garage by Melnikov and Shukhov (1929):
http://agram.saariste.nl/melnikof/images/GAR03.JPG

Iluminat · August 15th, 2008, 08:44 PM

Nice buildings but what's so SOVIET about them

Their style is more international then what Russians build today!

Lattice · August 15th, 2008, 08:44 PM

Lattice shells of the Shukhov Towers on the Oka River
(near Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), 1929

altayskaya · August 15th, 2008, 08:57 PM

Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, 107m, 1964:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumen...erors_of_Space

altayskaya · August 15th, 2008, 09:04 PM

The Motherland Calls, 85m, Stalingrad-Volgograd, 1967,
Yevgeny Vuchetich and Nikolai Nikitin

The Ostankino Tower, 561m, designed by Nikolai Nikitin, Moscow, 1967
Detailed photo of a tower (1,53MB)

altayskaya · August 15th, 2008, 09:12 PM

The Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Moscow, 1938:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=255310

The Elektrozavodskaya Metro Station, Moscow, 1944

Dequal · August 15th, 2008, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Now that's a cool building.

Kevlargeist · August 15th, 2008, 11:40 PM

The Yalta beach resort hotel's a charming one.

Iluminat · August 15th, 2008, 11:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dequal

Now that's a cool building.

Thats Ministry of Transportation in Tibilisi.

Oaronuviss · August 16th, 2008, 03:02 PM

Some of it just screams communism for some reason eh?
You know that if you saw something like that, didn't know what it was, you can probably point out that it was built under the sphere of influence of the USSR.

Oaronuviss · August 16th, 2008, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by altayskaya

Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, 1964:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumen...erors_of_Space

That's a cool tower though!

Iluminat · August 17th, 2008, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oaronuviss

Some of it just screams communism for some reason eh?
You know that if you saw something like that, didn't know what it was, you can probably point out that it was built under the sphere of influence of the USSR.

No, not really there were more such buildings in the west.

Big Texan · August 18th, 2008, 08:13 AM

No one showed soviet blocks of apartments and box living.

Lattice · August 18th, 2008, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Texan

No one showed soviet blocks of apartments and box living.

Living-buildings of the Stalinist architecture:

Living-buildings, 1980:

Lattice · August 18th, 2008, 12:32 PM

The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, 1945

h_arc_h · August 18th, 2008, 07:06 PM

from what I studied, this type of architecture is called russian consructivism, the russian way of modernism. most of these buildings are "workers' clubs" which were basically comunity centres.
the funny thing is one of the famous russian comunity centres was a "Public kitchen", guess what happened to it, or what chain replaced it, McDonalds!

Lattice · August 18th, 2008, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h_arc_h

from what I studied, this type of architecture is called russian consructivism, the russian way of modernism. most of these buildings are "workers' clubs" which were basically comunity centres.
the funny thing is one of the famous russian comunity centres was a "Public kitchen", guess what happened to it, or what chain replaced it, McDonalds!

Russian Constructivist architecture:

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Lattice Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Moscow Posts: 197 Likes (Received): 1	Shukhov Tover, Moscow, 1922 The Hyperboloid steel tower-gridshell by Vladimir Shukhov: "Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition." by English, Elizabeth Cooper, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2000, 264 pages; AAT 9989589. __________________ I like Shukhov's towers! Last edited by Lattice; August 19th, 2008 at 11:31 AM.

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Lattice Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Moscow Posts: 197 Likes (Received): 1	Konstantin Melnikov The Melnikov House, Moscow, 1929: There are all projects by Konstantin Melnikov: http://home.iae.nl/users/wie/melnikov/projectenlijst The Horseshoe garage by Melnikov and Shukhov (1929): http://agram.saariste.nl/melnikof/images/GAR03.JPG __________________ I like Shukhov's towers! Last edited by Lattice; August 20th, 2008 at 07:55 AM.

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Lattice Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Moscow Posts: 197 Likes (Received): 1	Shukhov Towers on the Oka River, Russia, 1929 Lattice shells of the Shukhov Towers on the Oka River (near Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), 1929 __________________ I like Shukhov's towers!

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Iluminat Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 8,647 Likes (Received): 114	Nice buildings but what's so SOVIET about them Their style is more international then what Russians build today!

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altayskaya Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 67 Likes (Received): 0	107m Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, 107m, 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumen...erors_of_Space Last edited by altayskaya; August 19th, 2008 at 08:59 PM.

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altayskaya Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 67 Likes (Received): 0	Nikolai Nikitin The Motherland Calls, 85m, Stalingrad-Volgograd, 1967, Yevgeny Vuchetich and Nikolai Nikitin The Ostankino Tower, 561m, designed by Nikolai Nikitin, Moscow, 1967 Detailed photo of a tower (1,53MB) Last edited by altayskaya; August 19th, 2008 at 08:58 PM.

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altayskaya Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 67 Likes (Received): 0	Metro Station, Moscow The Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Moscow, 1938: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=255310 The Elektrozavodskaya Metro Station, Moscow, 1944 Last edited by altayskaya; August 19th, 2008 at 06:47 PM.

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h_arc_h Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 154 Likes (Received): 0	from what I studied, this type of architecture is called russian consructivism, the russian way of modernism. most of these buildings are "workers' clubs" which were basically comunity centres. the funny thing is one of the famous russian comunity centres was a "Public kitchen", guess what happened to it, or what chain replaced it, McDonalds!

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