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Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa on Pyatnitskaya Street, demolished in 1935, and the metro vestibule
The Church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnitsa on Pyatnitskaya Street, demolished in 1935. The street took its name from this church. The stone buildings of the church were erected between the 16th and 18th centuries. On this very spot now stands the round vestibule of the Novokuznetskaya metro station.
Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
So this is the sorry state of the rear façade of the once-famous palace of Count Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky, built in the 1780s
So this is the sorry state of the rear façade of the once-famous palace of Count Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky, built in the 1780s. To a design by Bazhenov, or by Kazakov, or by someone else altogether. The view of the opposite façade, facing Vozdvizhenka, is blocked by the Kremlin
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Arkhnadzor reports demolition of more than 25 historic buildings in Moscow last year
According to Arkhnadzor, more than 25 historic buildings were demolished in the capital last year. Among them were examples of Constructivism, eighteenth-century structures and monuments of federal significance: The House of Culture of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers in Novosushchevsky Lane Construction of the building began in the
NB! · Architecture · Museums · New York · Humour
New building of the New Museum in New York opens after four years of construction
The new building of the New Museum, the museum of contemporary art in New York. It has opened after four years of construction. One question: why so 2016?
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Heritage
A photograph published by the Lebanese outlet Jdeed Magazine shows evidence of an air strike on Baalbek: a column of black smoke rising behind the columns of the Temple of Jupiter
A photograph published by the Lebanese outlet Jdeed Magazine shows evidence of an air strike on Baalbek: a column of black smoke rising behind the columns of the Temple of Jupiter. It is the closest to the site of any strike documented during the present war. The NNA agency reported
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The Demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 5 December 1931
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UNESCO-listed Sucevița Monastery and its frescoes in the late Byzantine tradition
The Ladder to Paradise on the north façade of the medieval Suceviţa Monastery in Romania. The monastery, naturally, is a UNESCO monument. Inside and out it is covered entirely, with the exception of the western wall, in paintings of scenes from the Old and New Testaments, the intercession of all
Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Paris to restore the church of Saint-Eustache, one of the city's main churches
At last, some good news. Pity it is not ours. Still, the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache is to be restored. For a long time now one of the city's principal churches has been in less than perfect condition, and the announcement of repair and restoration work is
Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage · Rome
Restoration of the Colosseum's entrance area, with the sites of its lost gallery columns, completed in Rome
The large-scale restoration of the Colosseum has been completed, or, to be precise, of the area beneath the lost part of the colonnade and the semicircular piazza before the arena, where Roman spectators once crowded under two galleries of marble columns up to 50 metres high. In these galleries
Aristocracy · Archive · Architecture
Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, 1897
Photograph by Alexander Zhivago
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