2024-12-22T03:30:03-05:00 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> https://archinect.com/news/article/149936362/owen-hatherley-on-a-stalinist-city-s-efforts-to-de-communize Alexander Walter 2016-03-24T14:34:00-04:00 >2016-04-08T00:44:12-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f7/f7a4112eca9f18dd072f8edf0fe88ac4?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The largest remaining statue of Lenin in Ukraine was removed from its pedestal in Zaporizhia last week, the latest victim of the Ukrainian ban on Soviet symbols. But how do you go about &ldquo;de-communising&rdquo; an almost entirely Stalinist city?</p></em><br /><br /><p>Related stories in the Archinect news:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/140542726/owen-hatherley-on-kiev-s-struggle-with-its-soviet-architectural-heritage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Owen Hatherley on Kiev's struggle with its Soviet architectural heritage</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/130182129/owen-hatherley-on-the-mass-housing-history-of-moscow-s-suburbs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Owen Hatherley on the mass housing history of Moscow&rsquo;s suburbs</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/135802570/moscow-skaters-reclaiming-hidden-spaces-on-top-of-soviet-era-buildings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moscow skaters reclaiming hidden spaces on top of Soviet-era buildings</a></li></ul>