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Architecture of the USSR
What distinguishes it from other high-rise building? First of all, the convergence of the rectangular constructive basis with scenic general morphogenesis. Soft silhouette, sculpted volumes of plastic - these are the features of this work. Structure complex volumes appeared closer verticalism modular system Stalinist empire than a rigid grid of the 1960s. However, the new structure with its clear desire for emotional expressionism devoid of even a hint of retrospektnye formy.Svoey crowning part of the building in the central part of the city panoramas. Silhouette of this part does not argue with domes and spiers, because it contains the basic coordinates of their forms. From the magazine "Architecture of the USSR»
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Ministry of Road of Georgia Tbilisi, Georgia 1975
RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION COMPANY "Rainbow", St. Petersburg, 1979-1990
CINEMA "RUSSIA»
The new volume was to capture the space of the boulevard and at the same time save space at ground level. To do this, we have raised the halls on the second floor of a mark - the podium, thereby spreading the flow of spectators entering and leaving the zalov.Prohod between the halls we performed in a vertical canyon. The decision was prompted by an appeal to history. The ensembles of the Armenian monastery - Haghartsin, Kecharis - built on the principle of similarity volumes closely standing side by side, and in the narrow space between them there is a force field that binds them to the environment. From an interview with the magazine Architects' Architecture of the USSR »
PALACE CINEMA MI. Alisher Navoi, Tashkent (Uzbekistan), 1961-1964
The building is built in the form of fluted columns and decorated with paintings inside.
Cafes and restaurants "FLOAT" Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), 1976
On the road the blue mirror of the Dnieper housed the cafe "float."
ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING Soviet Embassy Havana (Cuba), 1975-1981
The project - the idea of a self-contained space of the monastery with a bell tower on the island as an administrative building. Dynamism and rigid plastic shapes caused by the necessity of creating shadow zones, which were used screens and awnings.
PALACE solemn rites (Banquet Hall), Tbilisi (Georgia), 1980-1984
Palace "Arcadia", formerly owned by the former oligarch and opponent of President Saakashvili - Patarkatsishvili - a pearl among the attractions of Tbilisi. In the past - it was a wedding palace, overlooking the hillside, is now hovering over the capital Tbilisi sad reminder of its former greatness. On the facade of the building hangs a huge portrait on the kind of good-natured tycoon, whose remains lie in this sad house. Attractions Tbilisi
TSNIIOKI Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), St. Petersburg, 1974-1985
Elegant, soaring building resembles not the lonely chapel, not a rocket, lost among the birches Sosnovka Park. It was built as a testing ground for space equipment for the joint Soviet-American manned space flight "Soyuz-Apollo" Referring and Tower of Pisa, Leningrad "rocket" Allows measuring the state of bodies in free fall. Today the tower (by the way, is absolutely hollow) kept artificial arm that was used at one time on the space station "Mir".
Marine Station in St. Petersburg, 1982
Where you are floating, tight aluminum sails? As a moored sailboat, you have to ice the Gulf rises Naval Station. It outlines guessed both the strictness of the Admiralty (the proportion of which is likely to have served as the authors of one of the models for the "roll" through the ages), and grace of an ocean liner. From an article by Ivanov "For integrity - to the stars»
Children's Musical Theater Moscow, 1972-1979
Architectural composition of the theater is based on the contrast of his flattened rectangular bottom of the group and round towers, the final building. Pronounced in trehzalnost it is combined with a uniform distribution of inputs, balconies and sculptures that reflect the unity of the complex. From the magazine "Architecture of the USSR»
MUSEUM Automobile Plant Lenin Komsomol Moscow, 1972
on its own is organic symbolism of industrial architecture. Energy Giants - modern symbols of power of humanity, as well as huge industrial complexes, open production plants, the ruling on the object. The very specificity of labor in modern production receives a peculiar expression connection with scientific and educational centers shows the interpenetration of the physical and mental labor. From the book "New Horizons architectural creativity»
Pension "Friendship" Yalta, Ukraine, in 1984
State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine
House-monument "Buzludzha»
Tver. Street Vagzhanova
Hotel Russia
The building of the Foreign Ministry
HOUSE Gosprom Kharkov, in 1926 -1928
MINISTRY BUILDING ROAD Tbilisi 1975
CLUB Rusakov
Melnikov - the only orthodox Constructivist who build more and not talked about how to build. His Moscow clubs are close to their churches, towering over buildings squalid factory margins. Actually, the church, and they were designed to replace. Even open staircases and terraces reminiscent of the gallery gulbischaXVII century.
Megalomania
Lenin's plan of monumental propaganda declared the most important sculpture propaganda tool. Monuments revolutionaries and public figures from the 1920s began to appear throughout the country, providing artists tight state order. The reference symbol of socialist realism became a monument of Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, crowning the USSR pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. Thirty years on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd was erected another triumph of megalomania - "The Motherland Calls!" Eugene Vucetic. At the time of writing, it was the tallest sculpture in the world: 85 meters, 33 of which takes the sword. For comparison, the US Statue of Liberty - 46 meters without pedestal. But the scale and impact on the minds of even they could not compete with the all-union radio and television transmitting station named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. 540-meter Ostankino tower in the form of an inverted lily in 1967 became the tallest structure on the planet.
Lenin's Mausoleum Moscow, 1929-1930
Not just all the acknowledged masterpiece, but the main temple of religion is not accidental Soviet designed by the architect, to build the most exciting revolution church in neo-Russian style. No not constructivism, but to limit simple classicism, not without irony: Tribune for performances there and a strange indentation in the right corner on the other side of the facade is missing. Especially impressionable ziggurat compared to El Castillo in the Maya city of Chichen Itza and seek Masonic symbols.
The sanatorium "Metallurg" Sochi
MAIN BUILDING Moscow State University, 1948-1953
Once in this place, on the Sparrow Hills, we were going to build a temple in memory of the victory over Napoleon, but now a new victory heralded something quite unimaginable - not the council, not the palace, not the lock (four jasper columns, survived the demolition of the temple Christ the Savior Cathedral, established before the office of the rector). As is the case with other Stalinist skyscrapers, comparisons with American skyscrapers ridiculous. After all, they will certainly stumble in the heap, the strength of the universiteta- in the vast expanses around, guaranteeing spectacular views.
Palace of Soviets
The grand building height of 420 meters of the project Boris Iofana was to be the apotheosis of great style. Tiered skyscraper with columns topped with hundred-meter statue of Lenin - more than two times higher than the Statue of Liberty - began to build at the site exploded in 1931, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, having to make a foundation. At the head of the leader supposed to equip the library, Stalin's office, or to put anti-aircraft guns. The war froze the project, and then it was not up to the palace, instead of one in Moscow grew giperzdaniya "Seven Sisters" - seven skyscrapers. After the death of helmsman cultural vector is not directed upwards and deeper: the foundation of the Palace of the Soviets flowing into the outdoor swimming pool "Moscow».
Source: www.sobaka.ru
See also countries of the Soviet building
Ministry of Road of Georgia Tbilisi, Georgia 1975
RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION COMPANY "Rainbow", St. Petersburg, 1979-1990
CINEMA "RUSSIA»
The new volume was to capture the space of the boulevard and at the same time save space at ground level. To do this, we have raised the halls on the second floor of a mark - the podium, thereby spreading the flow of spectators entering and leaving the zalov.Prohod between the halls we performed in a vertical canyon. The decision was prompted by an appeal to history. The ensembles of the Armenian monastery - Haghartsin, Kecharis - built on the principle of similarity volumes closely standing side by side, and in the narrow space between them there is a force field that binds them to the environment. From an interview with the magazine Architects' Architecture of the USSR »
PALACE CINEMA MI. Alisher Navoi, Tashkent (Uzbekistan), 1961-1964
The building is built in the form of fluted columns and decorated with paintings inside.
Cafes and restaurants "FLOAT" Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), 1976
On the road the blue mirror of the Dnieper housed the cafe "float."
ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING Soviet Embassy Havana (Cuba), 1975-1981
The project - the idea of a self-contained space of the monastery with a bell tower on the island as an administrative building. Dynamism and rigid plastic shapes caused by the necessity of creating shadow zones, which were used screens and awnings.
PALACE solemn rites (Banquet Hall), Tbilisi (Georgia), 1980-1984
Palace "Arcadia", formerly owned by the former oligarch and opponent of President Saakashvili - Patarkatsishvili - a pearl among the attractions of Tbilisi. In the past - it was a wedding palace, overlooking the hillside, is now hovering over the capital Tbilisi sad reminder of its former greatness. On the facade of the building hangs a huge portrait on the kind of good-natured tycoon, whose remains lie in this sad house. Attractions Tbilisi
TSNIIOKI Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), St. Petersburg, 1974-1985
Elegant, soaring building resembles not the lonely chapel, not a rocket, lost among the birches Sosnovka Park. It was built as a testing ground for space equipment for the joint Soviet-American manned space flight "Soyuz-Apollo" Referring and Tower of Pisa, Leningrad "rocket" Allows measuring the state of bodies in free fall. Today the tower (by the way, is absolutely hollow) kept artificial arm that was used at one time on the space station "Mir".
Marine Station in St. Petersburg, 1982
Where you are floating, tight aluminum sails? As a moored sailboat, you have to ice the Gulf rises Naval Station. It outlines guessed both the strictness of the Admiralty (the proportion of which is likely to have served as the authors of one of the models for the "roll" through the ages), and grace of an ocean liner. From an article by Ivanov "For integrity - to the stars»
Children's Musical Theater Moscow, 1972-1979
Architectural composition of the theater is based on the contrast of his flattened rectangular bottom of the group and round towers, the final building. Pronounced in trehzalnost it is combined with a uniform distribution of inputs, balconies and sculptures that reflect the unity of the complex. From the magazine "Architecture of the USSR»
MUSEUM Automobile Plant Lenin Komsomol Moscow, 1972
on its own is organic symbolism of industrial architecture. Energy Giants - modern symbols of power of humanity, as well as huge industrial complexes, open production plants, the ruling on the object. The very specificity of labor in modern production receives a peculiar expression connection with scientific and educational centers shows the interpenetration of the physical and mental labor. From the book "New Horizons architectural creativity»
Pension "Friendship" Yalta, Ukraine, in 1984
State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine
House-monument "Buzludzha»
Tver. Street Vagzhanova
Hotel Russia
The building of the Foreign Ministry
HOUSE Gosprom Kharkov, in 1926 -1928
MINISTRY BUILDING ROAD Tbilisi 1975
CLUB Rusakov
Melnikov - the only orthodox Constructivist who build more and not talked about how to build. His Moscow clubs are close to their churches, towering over buildings squalid factory margins. Actually, the church, and they were designed to replace. Even open staircases and terraces reminiscent of the gallery gulbischaXVII century.
Megalomania
Lenin's plan of monumental propaganda declared the most important sculpture propaganda tool. Monuments revolutionaries and public figures from the 1920s began to appear throughout the country, providing artists tight state order. The reference symbol of socialist realism became a monument of Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, crowning the USSR pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. Thirty years on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd was erected another triumph of megalomania - "The Motherland Calls!" Eugene Vucetic. At the time of writing, it was the tallest sculpture in the world: 85 meters, 33 of which takes the sword. For comparison, the US Statue of Liberty - 46 meters without pedestal. But the scale and impact on the minds of even they could not compete with the all-union radio and television transmitting station named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. 540-meter Ostankino tower in the form of an inverted lily in 1967 became the tallest structure on the planet.
Lenin's Mausoleum Moscow, 1929-1930
Not just all the acknowledged masterpiece, but the main temple of religion is not accidental Soviet designed by the architect, to build the most exciting revolution church in neo-Russian style. No not constructivism, but to limit simple classicism, not without irony: Tribune for performances there and a strange indentation in the right corner on the other side of the facade is missing. Especially impressionable ziggurat compared to El Castillo in the Maya city of Chichen Itza and seek Masonic symbols.
The sanatorium "Metallurg" Sochi
MAIN BUILDING Moscow State University, 1948-1953
Once in this place, on the Sparrow Hills, we were going to build a temple in memory of the victory over Napoleon, but now a new victory heralded something quite unimaginable - not the council, not the palace, not the lock (four jasper columns, survived the demolition of the temple Christ the Savior Cathedral, established before the office of the rector). As is the case with other Stalinist skyscrapers, comparisons with American skyscrapers ridiculous. After all, they will certainly stumble in the heap, the strength of the universiteta- in the vast expanses around, guaranteeing spectacular views.
Palace of Soviets
The grand building height of 420 meters of the project Boris Iofana was to be the apotheosis of great style. Tiered skyscraper with columns topped with hundred-meter statue of Lenin - more than two times higher than the Statue of Liberty - began to build at the site exploded in 1931, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, having to make a foundation. At the head of the leader supposed to equip the library, Stalin's office, or to put anti-aircraft guns. The war froze the project, and then it was not up to the palace, instead of one in Moscow grew giperzdaniya "Seven Sisters" - seven skyscrapers. After the death of helmsman cultural vector is not directed upwards and deeper: the foundation of the Palace of the Soviets flowing into the outdoor swimming pool "Moscow».
Source: www.sobaka.ru
