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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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Wonderful socialist modernist bus stations | TOP 5
Waiting, delays, cancellations, replacements, changes and even more waiting—bus stations are not our favorite places, although if we take a closer look, we can discover very exciting architectural solutions in their buildings. In our selection today, we took a look at the most diverse bus stations in socialist modernist
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Wonderful socialist modernist bus stations | TOP 5
Waiting, delays, cancellations, replacements, changes and even more waiting—bus stations are not our favorite places, although if we take a closer look, we can discover very exciting architectural solutions in their buildings. In our selection today, we took a look at the most diverse bus stations in socialist modernist
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Vote for your favorite building in Budapest!
Déli Railway Terminal, the Újpalotai Apartment Tower, the Endre Ady Cultural Center in Újpest, the OKISZ Headquarters, the Planetarium—five buildings in Budapest we have also explored previously. Now it’s up to you to decide which of these buildings you’d like to see on HYPEANDHYPER’s new print!
czech republic
SOC/MOD Part 5 | Spa Hotel Thermal
In the last part of our SOC/MOD series, we will visit Karlovy Vary, but not because of the famous film festival. Towering in the fairytale town of the Czech Republic, the Spa Hotel Thermal, designed by the Machonin couple, has been expecting guests since 1977 with its sixty-five-meter-high tower
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SOC/MOD Part 4 | University of Agriculture, Nitra
In the fourth episode of our SOC/MOD series, we invite you to explore this emblematic building of the city of Nitra, Slovakia. The architect duo in charge of the University of Agriculture was inspired by the work of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and the so-called “Brazilian style”, which spread
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SOC/MOD Part 3 | The Theoretical Block of Semmelweis University
In the third chapter of our SOC/MOD series, we take a closer look at the Theoretical Block of Semmelweis University, Budapest. The tower block boasting a graceful figure was designed by three architects of IPARTERV, while in 2010, a young architect even turned it into the world’s tallest
ukraine
SOC/MOD Part 2 | The Institute of Information, Kyiv
In the second episode of our SOC/MOD series, we invite you to take a trip to the Ukrainian capital. Handed over in 1971, the former research institute and library caught the eyes with its expressive form: it was the first curtain wall tower block in Kyiv. And now we
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Hotel Budapest on your desk? Absolutely!
High-rise buildings reaching to the sky, façades evocative of UFOs and concrete everywhere! Our new collection, SOC/MOD is here, bringing the emblematic structures of the region to life in the form of miniature concrete buildings and prints—and now they are up for grabs! Attention: extra limited quantities!
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We visited the Újpalotai Apartment Tower | Othernity
Even though we are quite saddened by the fact that the 2020 International
Architecture Biennale was postponed, we for sure gained something with it: we
can visit all the iconic buildings that will be in the center of attention in
the Hungarian Pavilion. In the framework of the walking tours