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NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations
The bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment, whose construction we have followed since the spring, is at last ready
The bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment, whose construction we have followed since the spring, is at last ready. Remember, I wrote that they would probably want to open it for City Day? They made it just in time
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building
Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building. Does anyone have any notion of when the museum will reopen in its native home, or, more precisely, whether
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
The US Department of Justice has announced that if repairs and funding for the Kennedy Center are suspended, the building will have to be demolished
The collision arises from a lawsuit brought by the Democrat Joyce Beatty against the attachment of Trump's name to the building. In May 2026 a court had already ordered that name removed from the title "Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing
NB! · Architecture · Faith
The Domes of the Dormition Cathedral
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Science
At Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest megalithic temple complex, more than 11,500 years old, rectangular buildings have been found that may have served as dwellings
The site is being surveyed by means of geomagnetic mapping, ground-penetrating radar and lidar scanning. The head of the excavation reports that the new rectangular structures are concentrated chiefly in the eastern and southern parts of the hill and lie next to the already known circular monumental buildings with
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage
The Church of the Transfiguration, a 37-metre wooden church of 1714 on Kizhi Island in Karelia
Archive · Architecture · New York · People
Envy of the Soviet Passport against the Brooklyn Bridge and the legendary neo-Gothic Woolworth Building, at the time of the photograph the tallest building in the world
That is to say, the page from issue 7 of the magazine "USSR in Construction" for 1940 is a photomontage. Mayakovsky, in overcoat and hat, holding a gigantic Soviet foreign passport, was superimposed on this historic photograph by Irving Underhill, taken in 1921. The most amusing thing is
Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Mores
A Muscovite Woman Choosing a Birch Broom at the Central Market in 1958
The Central Moscow Market stood at 15 Tsvetnoy Boulevard and at that time still operated out of wooden pavilions, before the construction of the city's first permanent covered market building. The multi-storey market was built to a design by the architect Shulmeister in 1959, although the wooden
NB! · Architecture · Art · Museums
The table at which Verochka Mamontova sat for Valentin Serov's painting "Girl with Peaches" has survived and stands in the main manor house of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Books · Education · Saint Petersburg
The Ceremonial Hall of the Academy of Arts Library
The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s
Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947
The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947. Oranienbaum was the only one of the suburban residences of Saint Petersburg that did not fall under occupation during the Great Patriotic War. The Germans were stopped on the approaches to the town in September 1941, and