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📌 This building housed the theological seminary where, in 1788, the eminent statesman and jurist Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky studied
📌 Also in this building: in 1767 a prison was opened for "raving convicts". From 1829 most of its prisoners were clergy and sectarians. Among the inmates were the soothsayer monk Avel, who foretold the fate of the Romanov dynasty; the Old Believer hierarchs Arkady, Alimpy, Konon and Gennady;
Architecture · Books · Saint Petersburg
Let more diverse tastes be joined together
Let more diverse tastes be joined together. Let the same street see rising side by side the gloomily Gothic, the Eastern laden with lavish ornament, the colossal Egyptian, and the Greek, imbued with harmonious proportion... Let houses as seldom as possible merge into one even, monotonous wall... Gogol on eclecticism,
Architecture · Heritage · Mores · People · Rome
Designer Alessandro Michele on his apartment in the restored Palazzo Scapucci in Rome
“I am not sure that time passes as the calendar or the clock describes it. 800 years of these walls is, for me, the present. That is why I am not nostalgic. I never truly believe that those who are no longer alive have gone. Everyone leaves a deep imprint
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Science · New York
A Nuclear-Safe Manhattan Beneath New York, Proposed by Oscar Newman in 1969
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
On 28 July the Moscow City Court rejected the administrative claim brought by Arkhnadzor and Muscovites who joined its appeal against the mayor's office and the Moscow City Duma
The claim concerned Article 17 of the new city law on cultural heritage sites, adopted by the Moscow City Duma. The article allows sites to be struck off the list of identified monuments not on the strength of a historical and cultural appraisal, nor by decision of the relevant councils
NB! · Architecture · Books · Museums
Goethe's House in Weimar
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Art
Sculpture of Mary Magdalene, 1311–1313, from the west portal of Notre-Dame Church in Écouis
Stone sculpture of Mary Magdalene from the church of Notre-Dame in Écouis, made between 1311 and 1313. The sculpture adorned the west portal
NB! · Architecture · Art
The tavern from the fresco “The Effects of Good Government in the City”, painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti for the town hall of Siena in 1338–1339
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Makovka: How It Is Done
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Rome · Humour
Car park in the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican seen in a satellite image
The world's most exclusive car park can be seen in a satellite image of the Vatican. The lower part of the Belvedere Courtyard, one of the most famous and significant palaces of the Renaissance, is used as a car park. Every age has its hallmarks
Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · People
Notice to Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, architect of the Hotel Ukraina, that his case has been closed for lack of any corpus delicti: in this same case he had been sentenced to 15 years in the camps
A document from the new exhibition at the Museum of Architecture