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Atayants’s classical Russia
The Russian classicist Maxim Atayants’s winning entry in a 2014 competition to design a new judicial quarter in St. Petersburg for the supreme court to be relocated from Moscow was, according to architectural blogger Peter Keller, revoked a year ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged Andrew Cusack, Maxim Atayants, Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin
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Cafe Pushkin comes alive
No doubt inspired by photographs of mahogany antiques crammed with romantic abandon into a lovely building in downtown Providence (see my post “Tilden-Thurber memories“), Malcolm Millais, author of Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, has sent me a tale, in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Interior Design, Other countries, Preservation, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Andrei Makhov, Cafe Pushkin, Cuisine, Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Fantasy, Franco Andrei Dellos, Gilbert Becaud, Malcolm Millais, Moscow, Natalie, Portuguese, Restaurants, Romance
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Architecture and friendliness
My friend Cliff Vanover just sent me a link to Travel & Leisure’s new survey on the 266 places that made it onto its list of World’s Unfriendliest Cities. The unfriendliest was Moscow. A hint of political bias, perhaps? How … Continue reading
“Now that’s resiliency!”
Michael Mehaffy, an architectural theorist from Portland, Ore., who often collaborates with mathematician and fellow theorist Nikos Salingaros on treatises combining issues of design with those of science, has sent a lovely photograph he just snapped yesterday of the tallest … Continue reading
Beautiful seasonal greeting
The above photograph was featured on the main international news page of the Providence Journal. I send it out as my gift to readers. Beauty can persist even in the heart of darkness. Red Square may not be that place … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Other countries, Photography
Tagged GUM Department Store, Holiday Greeting, Merry Christmas, Moscow, Red Square
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