For years, Vigan Nimani strove for a timeless quality in his work. In the process, he captured a city
Collective Housing Complex ‘Round Block' in Bucharest, Romania. Completed in 1977. Brutalist, Socialist architecture in the former Eastern Bloc.
Photographs of Socialist-era architecture, spomeniks, and monuments in Montenegro. Architecture from former Yugoslavia, part of our Architectonic project.
The photographer Roman Bezjak spent five years traveling around Eastern Europe taking pictures of communist-era buildings. His images show grand gestures in concrete and weird constructions that could be in a science-fiction movie. His intention was not to judge the structures, but to show them from a new perspective.
Communist regime's tracks in Sofia: the Bulgarian socialist past is an excellent ‘fil-rouge’ to dig into Sofia’s architecture, art and monuments.
Trabant with mohican (sports centre actually). Doina Melinte, the famous olympic athlete is the director here. Hats off (sic) to her if she commissioned this fabulous building.
Brutalist architecture is essentially buildings with exposed, raw concrete. While they might look abrupt, there is also something amazing about them.
They look as if they've risen out of the desert itself in some strange, dystopian world. There are no trees, no cars, no bus stops, no parks, no playgrounds, no people. Just the towers. In a barren landscape 50km outside of Iran's capital city, the Mehra Mer project in Pardis has been "under constru
The Western perception of the Soviet Union was one of austerity, straight-laced, buttoned-down and under tight control for any signs of unorthodoxy. While this may have been true politically, the same can’t be said for […]
Cankar Centre on Republic Square in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Completed in 1982. Modernist, Socialist-era architecture in the former Yugoslavia.
