2024-11-21T17:05:35-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/111417630/building-sight-pictures-of-a-post-soviet-city-in-flux Alexander Walter 2014-10-16T15:10:00-04:00 >2014-10-21T23:25:16-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wc/wcifhgs83v81efrp.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In A Model for a City photographer Petr Antonov studies Moscow as the perfect example of a post-Soviet urban environment. The streets, buildings, cars and people captured by his camera are isolated from their everyday purposes and work like visual elements of the cityscape. [...] Antonov successfully captured the change so typical for most post-Soviet cities: newly built high-rises and faceless malls emerging on the horizon, ugly signage and never-ending building works.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Related: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/81138759/exploring-post-soviet-architectural-oddities" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exploring post-Soviet architectural oddities</a></p>