kristen | Shared With: Everyone - 24 days ago | news, architecture, history
It's really interesting that so many people are upset that the concept of the interior is being updated from its Communist origin -- and not for architectural reasons. There really seems to be sentimentality for the Soviet ...
Quoted: The same year that Sputnik soared into space saw the launch of another Soviet-era icon that may have loomed larger for generations of Russians: a huge toy store in central Moscow called Detsky Mir, or Children's World.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | art, architecture
Well, it's not built to be an instrument but actually to resemble one. It's still an incredibly beautiful pedestrian bridge.
Quoted: As we understand more and more about the materials to build suspension bridges, their shapes are going to become more bizarre and seemingly impossible. Architect Santiago Calatrava made this suspension bridge in Jerusalem to resemble the shape of a lyre, a stringed instrument popular during classical antiquity.
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