Archinect - News 2024-11-14T12:29:43-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/117810659/the-fantasy-castles-of-belarus-nouveau-riche The fantasy castles of Belarus' nouveau riche Alexander Walter 2015-01-07T14:13:00-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wv/wv9mrgpq7r1egxg8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Driving through the suburbs of Minsk, photographer Vitus Saloshanka, a Belorusian native who moved away in 2001, was struck by the way in which familiar places had changed. &ldquo;I saw something I&rsquo;ve never seen in Minsk before,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Contrast, social differences.&rdquo; [...] &ldquo;The houses represent a new sense of self-awareness in Belorusian society as well as a search for a new cultural identity. Who are we? Where are our roots? How is this expressed in the form of architecture?&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>