The curious thing about Soviet brutalist architecture is that it is incredibly rich ... efforts across the Socialist republics to develop their own aesthetic identities. Wallpaper* Newsletter Receive ...

This is the latest instalment of The Inside Story, Wallpaper’s series spotlighting intriguing ... deploying exposed concrete walls and original concrete columns to tap into a post-Soviet brutalist ...

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the company towns of the former Soviet Union are urban developments of economic extremes. With Brutalist concrete buildings tinted by fading pastel paint and no shortage of monuments to Vladimir ...

Driving through Tashkent feels like flipping through an architecture picture book teeming with examples of Soviet brutalist, orientalist, modernist, futurist and neoclassical styles. One marvel ...

were charging 35 euros per head for daily walking tours of Tbilisi’s brutalist architecture. One page of their website dedicated to Tbilisi’s Soviet-era architecture has clocked up nearly ...

while places like Uzbekistan and Georgia feature the iconic Soviet zeitgeist of "sci-fi" and brutalist buildings.

Today, this brutalist architecture is seen as the end of the Soviet utopia and a decaying symbol of what was achieved during the 20th century. Nevertheless, while some may wish to raze them to the ...

But, it's worth preserving. Like many Soviet structures, the distinct, brutalist architecture tells the tales of a transitional century in European history. Its meticulously mosaicked walls ...

But in contrast to the dreary brutalist concrete-block buildings of the later Soviet era, the constructivist buildings were bold and futuristic. “They were pretty outrageous,” Lamberton says.