Published May 9th, 2017, 5/9/17 3:59 am
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70 years of Stalin's skyscrapers!!!
"Stalin skyscrapers" — seven high-rise buildings built in Moscow in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In many foreign guidebooks these buildings are called the "seven sisters"
The eight hundredth anniversary of Moscow fell on the difficult post-war time. The country was just beginning to recover from the Nazi invasion. However, this day was begun the construction of Stalin's skyscrapers in Moscow
High-rise buildings are the pinnacle of the postwar "Soviet art Deco" in urban architecture; they had become surrounded by the never built Palace of the Soviets.
In the spirit of "high-rise" buildings erected during the same period, in Riga, Warsaw, Bucharest and Kiev
Urban legends say that the Moscow high-rise is only part of the dreams of Stalin on the city of the future, with the majestic administrative and residential complexes and perfectly smooth granite embankments. These legends are confirmed by the competitive projects of different architects. Looking at these models one can hardly imagine what it would look like Moscow.
Stalin wanted to make Moscow a "pioneer", and then all other cities would take the same form. Thus, the expression "sisters" could become popular throughout the world and to embody the strength and power of the Soviet Union.
Project construction of eight skyscrapers in Moscow was part of Grand plan for the construction of monumental buildings in all regional centers and capitals of the Soviet republics. Most important, already planned architectural objects, was to become the Palace of the Soviets, the so-called ninth skyscraper, whose construction started in 1939 instead of the destroyed before the Foundation of the Temple of Christ the Savior. The Palace of Soviets was planned as the tallest building of its time (415 m + 100 m height of the statue of Lenin) and was supposed to be the center of the entire Soviet state. Unfortunately or fortunately, but the Stalinist skyscraper appeared in a limited edition and then not received due development.
"Stalin skyscrapers" — seven high-rise buildings built in Moscow in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In many foreign guidebooks these buildings are called the "seven sisters"
The eight hundredth anniversary of Moscow fell on the difficult post-war time. The country was just beginning to recover from the Nazi invasion. However, this day was begun the construction of Stalin's skyscrapers in Moscow
High-rise buildings are the pinnacle of the postwar "Soviet art Deco" in urban architecture; they had become surrounded by the never built Palace of the Soviets.
In the spirit of "high-rise" buildings erected during the same period, in Riga, Warsaw, Bucharest and Kiev
Urban legends say that the Moscow high-rise is only part of the dreams of Stalin on the city of the future, with the majestic administrative and residential complexes and perfectly smooth granite embankments. These legends are confirmed by the competitive projects of different architects. Looking at these models one can hardly imagine what it would look like Moscow.
Stalin wanted to make Moscow a "pioneer", and then all other cities would take the same form. Thus, the expression "sisters" could become popular throughout the world and to embody the strength and power of the Soviet Union.
Project construction of eight skyscrapers in Moscow was part of Grand plan for the construction of monumental buildings in all regional centers and capitals of the Soviet republics. Most important, already planned architectural objects, was to become the Palace of the Soviets, the so-called ninth skyscraper, whose construction started in 1939 instead of the destroyed before the Foundation of the Temple of Christ the Savior. The Palace of Soviets was planned as the tallest building of its time (415 m + 100 m height of the statue of Lenin) and was supposed to be the center of the entire Soviet state. Unfortunately or fortunately, but the Stalinist skyscraper appeared in a limited edition and then not received due development.
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