Hotel Viru in Tallinn, Estonia. Completed in 1972 by Architects Henno Sepmann and Mart Port. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Architectonic Blog Posts
Labor Movement Mausoleum, Kerepesi Cemetery
Labor Movement Mausoleum inside Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary. Completed 1958. Communist memorial in the former Eastern Bloc.
Warsaw Uprising Monument
Warsaw Uprising Monument in Poland. Completed in 1989 by Jacek Budyn and Wincenty Kućma. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Komitas Chamber Music House
Komitas Chamber Music House in Yerevan, Armenia. Completed in 1977 by architect Stepan Kyurkchyan. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Memorial MotherÂ
Memorial Mother in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Orginally completed in 1961 and remodelled in 1974. Socialist memorial in the former Yugoslavia.
Monument to Fallen Soldiers
Spomenik: Monument to Fallen Soldiers in Nikšić, Montenegro. Completed in 1982. Also known as Monument on Trebjesa. Socialist memorial in former Yugoslavia.
Ilinden Memorial
Spomenik: Ilinden Memorial in Kruševo, North Macedonia. Constructed in 1974. Also called the Makedonium. Socialist memorial in the former Yugoslavia.
Skopje Central Post Office
Skopje Central Post Office in North Macedonia. Completed in 1982. Brutalist, Socialist-era architecture in the former Yugoslavia.
‘Medeya’
Medeya (Daughter of Tsar Kolkhida) in Pitsunda, Abkhazia. Created in 1969 by sculptor Merab Berdzenishvili. Soviet sculpture in the former USSR.
Workers’ Movement Memorial
Workers’ Movement Memorial, part of Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary. Created in 1976. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Kyiv Crematorium
Kyiv Crematorium (Halls of Farewell) in Ukraine. Completed in 1975. Modernist style, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Republican School Children’s Palace
Republican School Children’s Palace in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Completed in 1983. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.