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Warp speed in St. Petersburg
Normally I’m leery of using fancy video techniques to film beautiful cities. Often the techniques undermine the focus on the beauty. Maybe that’s true in this case, “White Nights in St. Petersburg,” but the virtuosity of the work has totally … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Kuriositas, Neiezhmakov, Russia, St. Petersburg, Video, Videography, White Nights in St. Petersburg
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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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Glide over St. Petersburg
This astonishing video, posted on Kuriositas, of Russia’s capital under the czars is called “If You Never Wanted to Visit St. Petersburg, You Will After Watching This.” St. Petersburg recently celebrated its 300th anniversary as a city – it is … Continue reading
Mittell: “Why I love Lviv”
David A. Mittell Jr., of Boston, has visited Lviv 22 times, some of them while he was on the editorial board of the Providence Journal, where I first met him. He now writes independently, after a stint as editor of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Other countries, Preservation, Providence Journal, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Beauty, Cities, History, Kiev, Lviv, Lvov, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Urbanism
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Hyperadvertising in Russia
Roy Lewis has sent two marvelous illustrations, below, that remind me of my post on the “Hyperphotography of Jean-François Rauzier,” in particular his “Versailles,” above, which I used to illustrate a number of posts a year or so ago. When … Continue reading
