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06-17-2005, 04:21 PM
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#16 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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06-17-2005, 05:01 PM
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#17 | | Forum Politruk
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Country:  | The 'panelák' was designed in Russia - under the 1957 re-building programmes that Nikita Krushchev devised to solve the chronic housing shortage in Russian cities.
The very first experimental blocks were built in a place called Novye Cheryomushki in the southern suburbs of Moscow. You can see this same design from the Berlin Wall to Vladivostok.
True story - the staircases on the first blocks were so narrow, that when somebody died on the new estates, the coffin had to be lowered down on ropes to the ground.
The composer Dmitri Shostakovitch wrote a satirical operetta about these buildings........
Cheryomushki! Cheryomushki!
Remember your new address,
In every flat, on every floor,
Municipal happiness!
We beautify the Moscow sky,
With orange construction cranes,
And flocks of giant apartment blocks,
Devour her ancient lanes!
They'll all have drains and window panes,
So Comrades raise your glass,
A brand new flat,
Now fancy that!
A miracle come to pass!
Cheryomushki! Cheryomushki!
Shall bloom a thousand blooms,
Of happiness, and dreams come true,
In a thousand concrete rooms! | |
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06-17-2005, 05:21 PM
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Country:  | Yo... And the government, instead of demolishing these awful objects, is reconstructing them!
"You can see this same design from the Berlin Wall to Vladivostok." - Sadly truth........ | |
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06-17-2005, 06:56 PM
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Country: | Ah it's all a cunning plan - restore and market the Khrushchoba apartments as 'Post-Soviet-Retro-Chic-Living' for Westerners wanting to own a pied a terre in Prague, but who can't afford to buy a place in the centre. | |
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06-17-2005, 06:59 PM
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#20 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  | Hey, that might actually work!
"Experience living as the proletariat masses did! Long may our crimson flag inspire!"
Or something cheesy like that. | |
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06-17-2005, 07:15 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I'm doubtful if foreigners would live in such a ****! Even normal citizen don't wanna to... | |
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06-17-2005, 07:31 PM
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Country: | Well take the Stalinist Gothic 'Hotel International' in Prague - done in that cream-cake Fifties architecture that the skyscrapers in Moscow have been built in.
If that was turned into apartments, people would go nuts to try and get one - I would if I had the money! (actually, if I had the money I'd get a place in Prague full stop) | |
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06-18-2005, 05:57 AM
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Country: | That one is in Dejvice district, formerly called Hotel Moscow, now Royal Crown International Plaza... whadda paradox
Wouldn't you like to visit this one, instead: 
or this one:  | |
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06-18-2005, 08:39 AM
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#24 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | What's with that first one? | |
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06-18-2005, 08:43 AM
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Country: | Oh, sorry I forgot to tell the names:
1) Dancing Building
2) Corinthia Tower  | |
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06-18-2005, 09:53 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | No matter the name, the first one is a still as ugly as sin.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004  To those in that club. | |
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06-18-2005, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by plan_D No matter the name, the first one is a still as ugly as sin. | Do you mean the Dancing Building? I'd disagree. It makes the place really fresh, you should see the whole block of the houses there. Well, it was a big debate here about it and the building itself went a bit controversal but I like it. | |
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06-18-2005, 11:36 AM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Well, we all have our opinions and mine is; it's ugly.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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06-18-2005, 11:46 AM
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06-18-2005, 12:19 PM
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#30 | | Forum Politruk
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Country: | I've been inside the cafe of that building - it's by the Vatlava River. My girlfriend at the time loved it.
We stayed at the Corinthia - not a pretty building, but we weren't looking at the architecture of it when we were there....  | |
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