Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Some buildings are entered on the protected lists, while others are quietly demolished, the features of old Moscow being ever more thoroughly wiped from the face of the city. Over the past weekend the Dukhovsky apartment house at 19 Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane was razed to the ground. The house, built
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
142 architectural monuments of Moscow have been entered in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites. The list now includes 3,975 historic buildings and structures. All of these sites are under state protection. Among the sites entered in the register today are the building of V.N. von
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Architecture · Observations · Pop Culture
One would think that nowadays, with the universal mania for photographic documentation and for tourism, there ought to be far more such vehicles. But no. The Citroën “Cityrama” remains a unique tourist coach. Nothing comparable, equally futuristic and at the same time utilitarian, has appeared since 1956.
NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Art · Museums · New York
Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480. In the nineteenth century the studiolo was bought by a German art dealer and taken to Venice. In 1939 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum
Architecture · Interviews · Moscow · Museums
Not long ago, the Bakhrushin Museum held a preview of the Centre for Theatre History, part of the museum and theatre quarter. This large-scale and in many respects unique project has long been discussed with interest in the museum community. The other day TASS published a substantial, programmatic interview
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Rome
From the Mouth of Truth to the Cloaca Maxima is a stone's throw. Eternal, all the same, this city of Rome
Architecture · Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Rome
After ten years of painstaking restoration, the state Hall of Constantine in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican has regained its original splendour. The largest of the Raphael Rooms, named after the Roman emperor who granted Christians freedom of worship, was decorated under five pontiffs over the course of the
Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Books · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Paris
June's days are running out, so here is a round-up of this month's publications. The June digest takes in literary parallels, architecture, vampires, henpecked husbands and the artefacts of the Louvre. 📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird cinema rubric: a piece on the first vampire serial 📌 The
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Rome
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations
But a cursory glance through the catalogues reveals that this is not the only likeness of the disgraced monument on the artificial island at the confluence of the Moskva River and the Drainage Canal, not far from the Bersenevskaya Embankment. On the same occasion a whole series of similar medals
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The State Hermitage is to undertake a large-scale restoration of its buildings in the coming years. According to the museum's director, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the work will affect the Hermitage Theatre and the Menshikov Palace and will continue for several years. The plans include the restoration of façades,