News:
20 Mar
TV "Russia Today", 20.03.2011: One of Moscow's most eye-catching landmarks, the Shukhov Television Tower is celebrating 90 years since its construction. RT has climbed on top of the engineering marvel that nearly a century later remains at the forefront of architecture.
19 Mar
Shukhov Tower in Moscow — 90 years
16 Mar
Shukhov Tower by Shabolovskaya metro station will be 90 years old on March 19 and it has never undergone a serious restoration. For more than 20 years, the radio tower has not been protected from corrosion, and it is clearly visible, and unless something is done urgently, Russia could lose one of its unique monuments, said the president of the Shukhovskaya Tower Fund, Vladimir Shukhov, the architect’s great-grandson.
04 Dec
Le président de la Fondation de la Tour Choukhov, Vladimir Choukhov, a visité République du Mali avec une visite amicale pendant la période de 19 novembre à 2 décembre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali.
03 Dec
Vladimir Shukhov, the President of Shukhov Tower Foundation, has visited Republic Mali with goodwill visit in the period from the 19th November till the 2nd of December. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal
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
The skater
Lessons at home, lying on the floor
The self-portrait in a mirror
Getting ready for a motor racing, 1908
The motor racing. The first automobile, 1908
The unloading of a cow in Yalta port