El Lissitzky, Room for Constructivist Art, Dresden, 1926
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School in St. Petersburg, built for the 10th anniversary of the Revolution, Grigorii Simonov, 1927-29. Picture by Richard Pare.
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Chekists Village: a sickle-shaped collective housing complex in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) designed by I. Antonov, V. Sokolov and A. Tumbasov, circa 1930. The building was constructed for members of the secret police (NKVD). Currently it serves as a hotel.
The slogan on the building reads ‘Forward in Communism!’
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the Moldovan Government building…
soviet constructivist architecture not at its best, my opinion. at least it’s mostly surrounded by fir tree :)
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rusakov club, moscow, RU, 1927-29, architect: konstatin melnikov (by Jörn Schiemann)
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Tatlin’s Tower or The Monument to the Third International is a grand monumental building envisioned by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin, but never built. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern (the third international).
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