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Fascinating Kádár cubes, or the divisive architectural legacies of socialism in Hungary
The strange cube, which as Hungarians we both like and hate, we see it as beautiful, but still think it’s ugly. It was an architectural creation of the communism in the Kádár era, the housing star of the 1960s and 1970s, and is still home to hundreds of thousands
The Soviet-era buildings of Chișinău | TOP5
Moldova was part of the Soviet Union between 1940 and 1991, so it’s no surprise that the country’s capital, Chișinău, is often home to the zigzagging and curving, angular and rounded ferroconcrete architectural monuments of Eastern European communism, which stand out from the greenery like timeless relics of
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Where waiting is a pleasure | Peter Ortner’s Soviet Bus Stops photo series
Some people adore it, some are taken aback by it, and some cannot prescind from the historical past attached to them—but surely, the architecture of socialism cannot be ignored. German photographer Peter Ortner and his wife felt similarly, who unexpectedly fell in love with these extraordinary bus stops that
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Diversity of socialism depicted in Maria Švarbová’s new photo series
Slovak photographer Maria Švarbová is a master at romanticizing the post-Soviet milieu: the aesthetics of our Eastern heritage subtly dominates her whole artwork, while the bittersweet atmosphere in her pictures flies us to a utopian world. A perspective vision and the co-existence of diversity are both present in her latest