A competition design for the monument for the first artificial earth satellite in Moscow by Ivan Leonidov, c. 1958.

Russia’s official style of architecture has long been stuck back in the Woolworth Building era. But the design of the U.S.S.R.’s hangar-like pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair, with its glass walls ...

Photo essay I: Detroit -- Valerian Osinskii, the American automobile, and the campaign to overcome Russian roadlessness in the 1920s-1930s / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- A country without architects: Andrei ...

After indefinitely postponing a modest student exhibit about the Russian equivalent to the Bauhaus, the school received protests from 750 academics. On Monday, it reinstated the show. By Joseph ...

Joining Moscow’s cathedrals, skyscrapers, and industrial chimneys spewing steam and smoke as stark vertical elements on the skyline are four bright blue slender pipes of GES-2 House of Culture. This ...

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), working with Russian-based TPO Pride Architects, is among a group of firms selected to design an entire new ‘smart city’ to the west of Moscow The AJ100 big hitter will ...

In March 2021, RECORD published a joint book review by Eric Mumford on two titles concerning Russian architectural history. The subject of one of these books, a short-lived Moscow design academy ...

MOSCOW -- -- MOSCOW -- Next to the sprawling U.S. Embassy and just off the ill-named Garden Ring, the clogged 12-lane highway that encircles Moscow's city center, stands a little slice of utopia.

The design proposed by C+S Architects and Citizenstudio creates a system where colour becomes an orientation device, found at the façade level, but also marking the pavement of public squares and ...

A book talk featuring Christina E. Crawford and Claire Zimmerman, dedicated to the memory of co-editor and contributor Jean-Louis Cohen. Co-edited by Christina E. Crawford, the Daniels Faculty’s ...

Cantilevering dramatically out of a small hill in Russia, the recently completed Russian Quintessential is conceived as both a stunning piece of modern art and a weekend getaway. Its reflective facade ...