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# Continuing the Mondrian theme
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/prodolzhaia-temu-mondriana/
- Published: 2024-06-01T19:50:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:37.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Observations, Saint Petersburg

Continuing the Mondrian theme. A standard kindergarten building of sand-lime brick, erected in 1961 on the Moika embankment in Saint Petersburg, was turned into a hostel in the 2000s and repainted à la Mondrian for good measure. It must be said that the result was rather pleasing, genuinely Dutch. But in 2013 it was demolished, and a residential complex was built on the site. Before the kindergarten, the site was occupied by a prison and barracks housed in the corner tower of the Lithuanian Castle, built in 1780.

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