kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 01 2008 | 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.
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