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The Firewall Remembers Everything
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The Russian pavilion and the Trans-Siberian Railway at the 1906 World’s Fair in Milan
1906 in Russia was, frankly, a bad year. Especially for self-presentation abroad. In January the first attempt at revolution was bleeding out. The country had not yet recovered from Bloody Sunday, the mutiny on the Potemkin, the December fighting on the Presnya, the dreadful Treaty of Portsmouth and the
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Well, that particular Russian sky-scraper can hardly, even with the most generous stretch, be called an adornment of the city's skyline
Architecture · Cinema · Observations · Heritage · Society
Trump decides to change the colour of the pool bottom on the National Mall in Washington
Trump Plans to Rebuild the Reflecting Pool, the Very One Between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, Along Which Forrest Gump Ran to Jenny and Around Which a Crowd of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Listened to Martin Luther King. I've probably built more than a hundred
Architecture · Observations · New York · Society
Have you come across reels criticising the new skyscraper in New York, which is being berated for blocking the view of the Empire State Building from Fifth Avenue?
Have you come across reels criticising the new skyscraper in New York, which is being berated for blocking the view of the Empire State Building from Fifth Avenue? These lamentations have been turning up in my feed for a week now, and New Yorker acquaintances confirm that everyone is indeed
Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage · Society · Paris
Will Claire Tabouret's Ugly Botch Still Replace Viollet-le-Duc's Historic Windows, Which Survived the Burning of Notre-Dame?
So, let us take matters in order. In December 2023 Macron announced that in the six chapels of the south nave of Notre-Dame, which came through the fire of 2019 undamaged, Viollet-le-Duc's stained glass would be replaced with contemporary windows by the French artist Claire
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The Crucifix in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, painted before 1288 by the Italian painter Cimabue, was severely damaged in the Arno flood of 1966 and has been only partially restored
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Society
Alexy II and Yury Luzhkov at the opening of the Moscow Ring Road after its reconstruction in September 1998
When it opened in 1962, the MKAD (the Moscow Ring Road) was considered a cutting-edge highway by Soviet standards. It had two lanes in each direction and a broad grass strip down the middle as a divider, and 33 cloverleaf interchanges were built along its length. It was said
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Glass shower cabin in a Guy Goodfellow interior and the question of its maker
A most worthy idea for the shower room. It remains to find out from Guy Goodfellow, the author of the interior, who makes such cubicles
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Humour
My beloved Foreign Ministry is under the scaffolding again
My beloved Foreign Ministry is being cleaned again. In a couple of years it will be all white
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