The Enrons of the East

[ChrisD(RJ)]

For those who've never visited Moscow: the Gazprom building is this
gigantic postmodernist column-scape of sheer glass and metal torque,
utterly distinctive against the skyline. You can grumble about the waste
of money involved, but the thing does have undeniable charm.

Of course, that was back in '95. Any other pomo buildings in Moscow?

- -- Dennis
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There are some office buildings, but Moscow is architecturally pretty
conservative. The current vogue is neo-Stalinism -- they are constructing an
eighth Seven Spire. (The Seven Spires are the big Stalin-built skyscrapers
with big honkin' hammer-and-sickles on them.)

I'm personally partial to the futurist stuff done in the '30s.

I love how Moscow is laid out -- the Gazprom building is smack dab in the
middle of a residential district, across from a small children's park and
near a bowling alley.

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal