All posts tagged with
concrete
Azadi Tower // 1971 // Architect Hossein Amanat // Tehran // Iran
The tower, commissioned by the Shah of Iran to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, as has been since the 70’s an epicenter of celebration, unrest, and revolutionary actions.
Kiev crematorium // “Park of Memory” // Kiev // Ukraine // 1978 // Architect Abraham Miletskiy
Like a lunar moth flying into the light only to be burned …
Як міль летить до світла тільки щоб згоріти…
Berlin’s night – Holocaust Memorial // Germany
Tsitsernakaberd ‘s memorial – Inside the Armenian Genocide memorial complex // Yerevan // Armenia
Kond Pedestrian Tunnel // Yerevan // Armenia
Hanging clouds of Shipka Pass in the silence of the mountain, the site of Buzludzha deserves its nickname of the « Bulgarian UFO ».
Soviet modernism + Soviet modernism + Soviet brutalism // Georgia
We must select a smaller number of standard designs .. and conduct our mass building programs using only these designs over the course of, say, five years .. and if no better designs turn up, then continue in the same way for the next five years. What’s wrong with this approach, comrades?
Nikita Khrushchev
Escape from a HR Giger dream … The space jockey @ Museum of Archaeology // Tbilisi // Georgia
Tbilisi Nutsubidze plato ‘s iconic sky bridge Sky Bridge // Georgia