Constructivism is alive in Russia. Newly built residential high rises on the place of the former bread factory.

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  1. Any earthquakes around there? That’s gonna be fun…

    Edit: was supposed to be a joke, geeze… I’ll show myself out now…

  2. The whole thing – the style of the high rises, the building and signage in the foreground, – is this some sort of Soviet nostalgia?

  3. Constructionist architecture implies some sort of approximation of the underlying kinetic form by stacking up the simplest convex geometric forms, such as rectangular cuboids, cylinders, trapezoidal prisms and less commonly, hemispheres.

    if the underlying form is visibly kinetic – it’s Constructivist architecture.

    if the underlying form is visibly static – it’s probably Brutalist architecture.

    Regular urban high-rises, like the ones in the picture, usually utilize the Functionalist approach in architecture. See Le Corbusier, the Bauhaus school etc.

  4. I’ve read about the plan to replace all those old soviet style buildings in Moscow with the new high rises. In essence as I’ve understood it people will get new apartments and the developer will make money by selling apartments in the floors that are left. Does anyone know anything about that ? Or maybe I’ve misunderstood the article. My Russian is really bad.

  5. I think the buildings look cool.

    Might be going off topic but the Westerners in the thread who call these “ugly and dystopian” while complaining about the housing crisis confuse me. I’m sorry but THIS is how you solve the housing crisis! Not by building boring two-storey houses with gardens that only a select few petit bourgeois can afford but by building high rise buildings that can house hundreds!

  6. I hate the new type of construction. Built in a way to make as most money for the developers as possible, looks ugly (just because it’s modern doesn’t make it much better than Soviet blocs), no greenery, all this…obsession with cars, spitting on public transport. And people get into debt and all the mortgage stuff.

    Urgh.

  7. I wish we had more of these going up, I live in South East England and since the late 90’s the average house price to average income ratio has gone from 4x to 10x, and 25-34 homeownership has gone from 2/3 to sub 1/3. I don’t care how it looks at this point, just fucking build, build fast and build high occupancy.

  8. These houses are visible from my window. But I have no idea how to live in them!
    An interesting fact: is that the circular building is a former Bread factory. For a long time it was abandoned until it was turned into a public urban space, with restaurants, showrooms and shops.
    This place has become very popular with young people.

  9. I kind of like them actually, they’re not as blocky and ugly as the 60’s equivalents.

    We could use a few of these in the suburbs of Stockholm for sure.

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