A house from the future: the brightest futuristic buildings in the USSR
If it seems to you that the main scourge and flaw in the architecture of the Soviet Union is uniformity and dullness, then ... it does not seem to you. And yet, fortunately, there are exceptions to all rules. As it turned out, the planned economy gave place not only to the boring and squalid Khrushchev-“boxes” that still exist. Even in this impenetrable darkness of the Soviet egalitarianism, rays of light of extraordinary architectural solutions flickered.
It was this ray in the form of the building of the Ministry of Roads in Tbilisi that was discovered by the French photographer Frederic Chauban. The unusual building so interested him that he began to search and collect photographs of futuristic buildings throughout the former USSR. Let's take a look at the result of his journey and research on Soviet architecture, which lasted for seven years.