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  • Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego photograph colourful Soviet architecture across central Asia

    Mosaics and murals feature in this photography series of Soviet-era architecture from central Asia by photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. More

    Jane Englefield | 4 April 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Modernist building blocks feature in Tetris-inspired mobile game

    The geometric blocks of 1980s video game Tetris are replaced by Soviet-era apartment buildings in Tower Block Tetris, a mobile game by Lithuanian designer Lukas Valiauga. More

    Ali Morris | 2 May 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Soviet architecture in Georgia and alchemy inform furniture collections by Rooms

    Tbilisi-based, all-female studio Rooms is presenting patinated metal tables and sculptural black timber chairs at The Future Perfect gallery and furniture store in New York. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 15 May 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Design Museum's Imagine Moscow exhibition explores six unbuilt Soviet landmarks

    Six radical designs for the Moscow skyline – proposed in the wake of the October Revolution, but never built – are showcased in an exhibition opening today at London's Design Museum. More

    Jessica Mairs | 15 March 2017 | 5 comments
  • Studio11 reinterprets Soviet-era architecture for gaming company offices in Minsk

    The architects of Belarusian office Studio 11 looked to their country's past when designing the offices for gaming company Vizor, combining Soviet-era details with bold red walls and modern lighting. More

    Alice Morby | 4 March 2017 | 3 comments
  • Peter Ortner photographs 500 bus stops in former Soviet Union

    German photographer Peter Ortner has spent seven years documenting 500 bus stops across former Soviet countries, including a triangular pavilion, a winged shelter and several colourful mosaic designs. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 5 February 2017 | 3 comments
  • Socialist Modernism photography series by BACU aims to help preserve Eastern Bloc architecture

    This photographic series documents buildings in the former Eastern Bloc, with the intention to save them despite association with a totalitarian regime (+ slideshow). More

    Eleanor Gibson | 18 August 2016 | 3 comments
  • "Kyiv is a city where any and all public space is seized upon by parasitic capital"

    Opinion: a temporary installation around a plinth that once hosted an infamous statue of Lenin in Ukraine accidentally highlights a deeper problem facing the city than what to do with the relics of Soviet rule, finds Owen Hatherley. More

    Owen Hatherley | 29 July 2016 | 1 comment
  • Dead Space and Ruins exhibition questions the future of Soviet architecture

    The decaying architecture of the Soviet Union is the subject of an exhibition that opened this week at the Calvert 22 Foundation in London (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 8 July 2016 | 4 comments
  • Dorell Ghotmeh Tane's Estonian National Museum occupies site of former Soviet airbase

    Paris architecture office Dorell Ghotmeh Tane has created a new home for the Estonian National Museum – a 355-metre-long sloping glass building that rises from the runway of a former Soviet airbase near the city of Tartu (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 13 June 2016 | 6 comments
  • Czech and Slovak Pavilion explores whether Soviet-era architecture is worth saving

    Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a bright red model of the Slovak National Gallery forms the centrepiece of the Czech and Slovak Pavilion, which questions whether the countries' Soviet-era architecture should be saved or demolished. More

    Jessica Mairs | 4 June 2016 | 8 comments
  • Venice Biennale's first Baltic States Pavilion investigates post-Soviet infrastructure

    Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have united for the first time at the Biennale to present the Baltic Pavilion, which explores the impact of redeveloping the region's Soviet-era infrastructure (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 1 June 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Orang+Utan vegetarian cafe features stark white tiling and neon signage

    Ukrainian studio AKZ Architectura completely covered the interior of this vegetarian cafe in Kyiv with white tiles and installed a "jungle" in the toilets (+ slideshow). More

    Alice Morby | 11 November 2015 | 11 comments
  • KAMP Arhitektid creates tree-filled office within former Soviet-era factory

    KAMP Arhitektid has installed angular wooden rooms and five metre-high trees inside a former factory in Estonia, to create an office modelled on a "bright summer forest". More

    Alice Morby | 31 October 2015 | 1 comment
  • "This spectacle of power was an inversion of the socialist city"

    Opinion: Stalinist Russia turned its military parades into architecture, creating a peculiar form of pomp that still resonates in modern Moscow and emphasises the city's inequalities, finds Owen Hatherley. More

    Owen Hatherley | 28 May 2015 | 16 comments
  • "It's no surprise that the government were reluctant to let members of the public in"

    Opinion: an unloved relic of 1950s socialist Yugoslavia is one of the finest buildings of its era. But in modern Serbia, its overtly political message doesn't chime well with the prevailing ideology, says Owen Hatherley. More

    Owen Hatherley | 14 November 2014 | 5 comments
  • Hungarian Cubes: the houses of post-war communism photographed by Katharina Roters

    Photo essay: German-Hungarian artist Katharina Roters has produced a series of photographs documenting the ornamental patterns added to standardised dwellings in Hungary as an expression of individuality (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 17 August 2014 | 3 comments
  • Abandoned Soviet architecture photographed by Rebecca Litchfield

    Photo essay: photographer Rebecca Litchfield has toured former Soviet countries to document the once-monumental structures around the Eastern Bloc that have fallen into decay. More

    Dan Howarth | 9 August 2014 | 11 comments
  • Critics' reactions to Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935


    Dezeen Wire:
     art and architecture critics have been offering their opinions on Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, an exhibition presenting the revolutionary imagery of communist Russia at the Royal Academy in London. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 1 November 2011 | 1 comment
  • New exhibition of Soviet art and architecture "deserves to be stampeded"- The Independent


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     architecture critic Jay Merrick lauds the forthcoming exhibition Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-35 at the Royal Academy in London and explains how the bold, fragmented imagery of this period has influenced contemporary architects from Zaha Hadid to Rem Koolhaas - The Independent

    Merrick delves into the historical circumstances that informed the revolutionary approach to creativity of artists and architects such as El Lissitzky, Alexandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin, stating that "in a world awash with 'iconic' architecture, nothing comes even close to radiating the raw potency of this truly revolutionary form."

    Alyn Griffiths | 21 October 2011 | Leave a comment

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OEO Studio uses materials in a "playful way" for Designmuseum Denmark cafe and shop

Tables, design chairs and stone floors at Designmuseum cafe

Tom Kundig designs Truckee home with metal "treehouse" for Faulkner Architects founder

Concrete and steel buildings through the trees

Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

Image of the interior of the glass pavilion
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