Building: Smolna 8 in Warsaw, Poland. Constructed between 1964 and 1976; Modernist style, Communist architecture in the former Eastern Bloc.
Architectonic Blog Posts
Pyramid of Tirana
Pyramid of Tirana in Tirana, Albania. Formerly the Enver Hoxha Museum. Completed in 1988; Brutalist, Communist architecture in the former Eastern Bloc.
National Palace of Culture
National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. Completed 1981. Modernist, Socialist architecture in the former Eastern Bloc.
Morača Sports Centre
Morača Sports Centre in Podgorica, Montenegro. Constructed in 1979; Modernist style, Socialist-era architecture, in former Yugoslavia.
Monument of Resistance and Freedom, Šumarice Memorial Park
Spomenik: Monument of Resistance and Freedom, part of Šumarice Memorial Park in Kragujevac, Serbia. Socialist memorial in the former Yugoslavia.
Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after N. Lysenko
Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after N. Lysenko in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Brutalist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Sokhumi Railway Station
Sokhumi Railway Station in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Stalinist Empire style, Soviet architecture in the former USSR, completed in 1951.
Eshera Sports Complex
Eshera Sports Complex in Abkhazia. Also known as the Central Olympic Base of the USSR. Brutalist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Wedding Palace
Wedding Palace in Lutsk, Ukraine. An example of modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR. Brutalist building used as a traditional wedding palace.
State Museum of Fine Arts
State Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Completed in 1974. Brutalist, Soviet-era architecture, in the former USSR.
Defenders of Stara Zagora Memorial Complex
Defenders of Stara Zagora Memorial Complex in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. Also called Memorial ‘Samarsko Zname’, completed in 1977.
Drama Theatre
Drama Theatre in Grodno (Hrodna), Belarus. Constructed between 1977 and 1984. Brutalist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.