Archinect - News2024-11-14T12:09:34-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/117810659/the-fantasy-castles-of-belarus-nouveau-riche
The fantasy castles of Belarus' nouveau riche Alexander Walter2015-01-07T14:13:00-05:00>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. “I saw something I’ve never seen in Minsk before,” he says. “Contrast, social differences.” [...] “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?”</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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