Hallgrímskirkja // Reykjavik // Iceland
Architect :Guðjón Samúelsson
A fine exemple of Expressionist architecture echoing the columnar jointed volcanic rocks of Iceland
Hallgrímskirkja // Reykjavik // Iceland
Skeiðará Bridge Monument // Iceland
keiðará Bridge Monument // Iceland
The two twisted girders are the only remnants of the Skeiðará Bridge destroyed by a jökulhlaup ,a volcanic flood, caused by the eruption of the volcano Vatnajökull in 1996.
Stykkishólmur ‘s church // Iceland
Stykkishólmur ‘s church designed by architect Jón Haraldsson ( 1990 )
Memorial to the Holodomor Victims ( 1932-1933 ) // Ukraine
Memorial to the Holodomor Victims ( 1932-1933 ) // Kiev // Ukraine
Holodomor (голодомо́р ) , literraly “Extermination by hunger”, was a man-made famine ( under the guidance of Joseph Stalin) which killed an estimated 2.5 to 7.5 million ukrainian between 1932 and 1933.
St Andrew’s Church // Kyiv // Ukraine
St Andrew’s Church // Kyiv // Ukraine
CHIATURA AND THE STALIN ‘S LAST CABLE CARS // GEORGIA
Chiatura (Georgian: ჭიათურა) is a small city in Western Georgia located on the banks of the Qvirila River, 180 kilometers away from the capital, Tbilisi. The city has a rich…
The bielorussian Rhombicuboctahedron // Minsk // Belarus
The bielorussian Rhombicuboctahedron
National Library of Belarus // Minsk
Национальная библиотека Беларуси
Statue of Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky // Minsk // Belarus
Statue of Cheka ( aka All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage later known as KGB ) founder Felix Dzerzhinsky // Minsk // Belarus
No scholars are sure how many were killed by the Cheka during the soviet ‘Red Terror’ ( 1918–1922 ) and the figures vary widely from 50 000 to a quarter million people.
New microdisctict in the Outskirts of Minsk // Belarus
New microdisctict in the Outskirts of Minsk // Belarus
Tbilisi ‘s Juliette // Georgia
Tbilisi ‘s Juliette // Georgia
