stalin, of course, he had to go after hitler to be 'the' man. his empire was bigger and he had more willing architects. vesnin bros. had to cave in too. aeroflot drawing would make a 'what a' casino and take this 850 million dollar fake old european las vegas village to the cleaners upon the completion. post modern style was really 'post-stalin-candy-assed. i know it is generalization but i am careless after seeing those power drawings of moscow.
Oh and John Jourden, if your question is serious, they probably have a single loaded exterior corridor with a door (in which the photographer is standing to take the pic) and windows next to it. I think this typology is seen in the pics on the page I just posted in my comment above, too.
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where are the windows in that thing? what is this the revenge of Kowloon walled city?
Vis-Ã -vis Michael Wolf, Hu Yang on Shanghai.
stalin, of course, he had to go after hitler to be 'the' man. his empire was bigger and he had more willing architects. vesnin bros. had to cave in too. aeroflot drawing would make a 'what a' casino and take this 850 million dollar fake old european las vegas village to the cleaners upon the completion. post modern style was really 'post-stalin-candy-assed. i know it is generalization but i am careless after seeing those power drawings of moscow.
on the other hand, i digg it.
Jeeeeeezus look at this page of Michael Wolf's work too!!!!! As an architect I totally love it, as a human I'm pretty scared by it!
Oh and John Jourden, if your question is serious, they probably have a single loaded exterior corridor with a door (in which the photographer is standing to take the pic) and windows next to it. I think this typology is seen in the pics on the page I just posted in my comment above, too.
I get it. and the slots in the top of the wall are for ventilation.
which many of them close them down, with tape and mc donalds paper bags for example
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