Golden Era Soviet Architecture That Never Was

[Nathan Flowers]

http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index_e.htm?


This is an interesting site full of pictures of proposed buildings from the 1930s to 1950s.

 

[matei]

Great find! Very interesting site.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Some pretty impressive buildings.

Reminds me of the plans Hitler had for Berlin that were designed by Albert Speer.

 

[magneto]

Reminds me of the plans Hitler had for Berlin that were designed by Albert Speer.

Good eye--well, of course! After all, the only difference between Soviet "Socialist Realist" architecture and its Nazi equivalent is... is.. (thinks hard) (still thinking)

Now the modernistic, pre-Stalinist stuff, like Tatlin's proposed "Monument to the Third International".. that's pretty wacky.

 

[Salv]

Now the modernistic, pre-Stalinist stuff, like Tatlin's proposed "Monument to the Third International".. that's pretty wacky.

Oh yes, a mind-boggling concept. There's a project currently under way (just in the planning stage at the moment...) to build the Tower in sections in various parts of the world - the sections won't be joined, but the Tower will at least finally 'exist.'

http://www.tatlinstowerandtheworld.net/

 

[matei]

So that is what those things posted in the tube are all about...

I thought that the "Unfinished Tower" was an advert for a soon-to-be-ready roller coaster at Alton Towers or something... :eusa_doh:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Reminds me of the plans Hitler had for Berlin that were designed by Albert Speer.

Yes! Although I prefer *some* of the Soviet designs. Others are a bit too (pre)"postmodern" for me.

Speer's "monumental" style (from the Italians, I think?) was popular everywhere in the '30s. These days, folks tend to find it, well, despotic.

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[Maj.Nick Danger]

Yes very monumental, and very Italian,

In that it looks like something right out of Imperial Rome. Towering columns, heroic statues, and ornate mosaics,....all the trappings of an empire.

http://http://www.dataphone.se/~ms/speer/welcom2.htm

 

[Lincsong]

These were probably too individualistic, so Stalin had the architect eliminated.

 

[Quigley Brown]

A couple of them remind me of a couple of the long lost Seven Wonders of the ancient world...the Colossus of Rhodes and the Alexandria Lighthouse.

 

[feltfan]

Surprisingly conventional!

Gee, when I opened the site I was expecting to see
some truly revolutionary design, reflecting Malevich or
the Constructivists. Those designs are all more or less
reworked 19th Century or neoclassical designs that
wouldn't stand out in a European city, aside from
their rediculous scale.

The drafting style's dark, empty settings are interesting,
though again more typically 19th Century.

Has everyone seen the Malevich tea set now in
production?

http://www.therussianshop.com/russhop/lomonosov/malevich.htm

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/feature/0,,1353852,00.html

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The Malevich tea set looks great -- and at the same time, totally uncomfortable to use.


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[Story]

Bad link?

In that it looks like something right out of Imperial Rome. Towering columns, heroic statues, and ornate mosaics,....all the trappings of an empire.

http://http://www.dataphone.se/~ms/speer/welcom2.htm

Machts nichts. More epic Nazi architecture
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Notes-Fascist-GER.htm

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Machts nichts. More epic Nazi architecture
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Notes-Fascist-GER.htm

By Jupiter!,....You're right! :eusa_doh:

Thanks for the real link.

 

[Story]

Vintage Soviet propaganda posters to hang on your vintage Soviet concrete walls.

http://www.internationalposter.com/ru-text.cfm

 

[scotrace]

This has probably been posted before

The Third Reich in Ruins


Then & Now:

 

[ArrowCollarMan]

Holy crap. That stuff the Soviets wanted was pretty impressive. I liked this one especially:

Man, the Soviets were the best kind of commies

 

[DanielJones]

Those were some great ideas they had back then. Too bad they never came to be.

Cheers!

Dan