2024-12-04T04:04:28-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150043455/the-moscow-that-never-was-new-vr-ar-tour-showcases-unrealized-icons-of-soviet-architecture Alexander Walter 2018-01-04T15:24:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/55gaeg4mgjgb7qj7.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>New virtual reality tours are giving Muscovites the chance to see the Russian capital as the socialist utopia envisioned by the city&rsquo;s Soviet architects. The new project, The Moscow That Never Was, lets visitors&nbsp;glimpse shelved Soviet landmarks as they should have appeared on Moscow&rsquo;s streets using VR goggles.</p></em><br /><br /><p>The 2-hour virtual/augmented reality tours through central Moscow feature&nbsp;utopian architectural projects that never quite saw the light of day, including the infamous Palace of the Soviets (imagined as the world's tallest building, crowned with a 300-ft Lenin statue), an alternate Lenin Mausoleum, Stalin's eighth 'sisters' skyscraper in Zarayadye Park, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry HQ on Red Square, among others.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fi/fi4zwy3b5xxoibv3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fi/fi4zwy3b5xxoibv3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/pi/pigxqncjimq2pifp.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/pi/pigxqncjimq2pifp.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wg/wgo75ly1dgho1l9l.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wg/wgo75ly1dgho1l9l.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/66/66pakj6p9kghrk5l.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/66/66pakj6p9kghrk5l.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p></figure><p>More information about the The Moscow That Never Was tours&nbsp;<a href="http://moscow.refutur.com/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>All images via Retro Futuro.</em></p>