News:
05 Nov
"They are ... cast into the shade by Richard Pare’s vertiginous photograph of the first permanent industrial structure to be built in Russia after 1917, the Shabolovka Radio Tower, designed in 1922 by Vladimir Shukhov. Its elegant steel trussses floated high over the still low-rise skyline of Moscow, and the archival images (pictured below, Havski-Shabolovskii residential block, with Shabolovka Radio Tower, photographer unknown, 1929, Dept of Photographs, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow) and Pare’s extraordinary interior shot show how stark its modernity must have appeared at the time."
03 Nov
The Russian Revolution unleashed a massive burst of creative energy among avant-garde artists and architects, who aspired to build a brave new world with radical and iconoclastic imagery. Arkady Ostrovsky charts the rise and fall of the Russian Constructivists, while on the following pages we assess the impact of the iconic yet unrealised Tatlin’s Tower, and the varying fortunes of Russia’s avant-garde buildings
20 Sep
19 Sep
28 Aug
On August 28 Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, the Great engineer, architect and scientist was 158. Gridshells and hyperboloid towers created and patented by Shukhov in 1896 are used in XXI century all over the world.
26 Aug
“Russian heritage” foundation — The Address of the initiators of the foundation establishment.
12 Aug
As part of preparations for the scientific-practical conference on the preservation and use of Shukhov’s Gridshells in Vyksa, tentatively planned for September 29-30, 2011, in order to arrange the work of the Expert Committee there were examined the Shukhov Gridshell and Shukhov tower.
Trade in the Smolenskiy Boulevard, 1905
The Moscow courtyard
The elections to State Duma, March 1906
The tsar bell