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Garage Museum creates life-size recreation of Andy Warhol's studio The Factory
The Garage Museum in Moscow is hosting an exhibition dedicated to an anti-modernist manifesto from the 1960s, featuring full-scale mockups of Andy Warhol's famous studio and a conceptual cubist home....
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Asymmetrical walls divide up blue and white apartment in Moscow
Russian studio Shkaf Architects inserted asymmetrical and diagonal walls to make the most of the space within this one-bedroom apartment in Moscow. Located in an apartment building in the north-eastern...
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Twelve Architects unveils Rostov-on-Don airport in time for World Cup in Russia
Platov airport in Rostov-on-Don, designed by Twelve Architects, has completed ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2018, when the city will be hosting games. The London-based architects designed the terminal,...
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Archetype use rich-toned walls and furnishings for redesign of Moscow flat
Splashes of burgundy, blue and emerald green appear throughout this apartment in Moscow that Russian practice Archetype has redesigned to feature an "aristocratic" colour palette. The Pomegranate...
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Moscow's historic Luzhniki Stadium refurbished for World Cup 2018
The opening game of the FIFA World Cup 2018 takes place today inside Russia's national stadium, which has been overhauled by Moscow studio Speech. Built in 1956, Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow hosted key...
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12 stadiums that will host matches at the World Cup 2018 in Russia
With the FIFA World Cup 2018 kicking off today in Russia, here's a look at all 12 of the stadiums that will be hosting games over the next month. Starting today, 14 June 2018, and continuing until 15...
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Ruetemple creates small spartan apartment in Moscow
Space-saving oak furniture and white-washed walls feature in this minimalist apartment in Moscow renovated by architecture studio Ruetemple. The small 40 square-metre apartment is owned by a young IT...
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Europe's tallest skyscraper revealed as it nears completion
The RMJM-designed Lakhta Centre in St Petersburg is Russia and Europe's tallest building – standing 462 metres high. The twisted supertall skyscraper, which finished construction in June 2018, is the...
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Gastrobar O restaurant combines Russian and Scandinavian style
Bureau Rhizome's interior for this contemporary Russian restaurant is influenced by a neighbouring Danish design school. As well as the aesthetic connection, the 46-seater restaurant serves...
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Zaha Hadid Architects to design concert hall for Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Designed as a new home for the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, the venue will...
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Zaha Hadid Architects designing smart city outside Moscow
Moscow's new Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye district, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Pride Architects, will be a "people-centric" sustainable smart city. Located to the west of Russia's capital city,...
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Ridged panels of pink metal appear throughout Moscow's Rare Pastrami Bar
Gleaming sheets of pink corrugated metal contrast with rough plaster walls inside this Moscow restaurant designed by Crosby Studios. The interior of Rare Pastrami Bar, which specialises in meat dishes,...
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"Dictatorship in the 21st century looks like London or New York"
Moscow shows us that cities created by dictatorships can also have beautiful buildings and welcoming public spaces, says Owen Hatherley. American pundit Thomas Friedman once claimed that no two...
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Sci-fi ceiling illuminates Russian florist in constructivist building
Architect Eduard Eremchuk looked to visuals from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey when designing the Guapa Flower Shop in a historic building in Rostov-on-Don. The whole ceiling is a lighting...
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Asketik creates stark white coffee shop in Soviet silk factory
Russian studio Asketik has designed a cafe with bright white interiors in Moscow, offset with many indoor plants to soften the industrial space. Bloom-n-Brew occupies a former Soviet silk factory...
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Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik completes pair of Dutch towers in Moscow
Dutch House is a pair of brick apartment blocks in Moscow designed by Rotterdam studio Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik to directly reference the architecture of the Amsterdam School. The 19- and 20-storey...
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Wes Anderson films inform design of Moscow restaurant
New York-based design studio Asthetíque has completed a restaurant in Moscow called The Y that draws on the stylised sets of films directed by Wes Anderson. Located in the newly developed neighbourhood...
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Brass elements appear inside Moscow office by Alexander Volkov Architects
Golden-hued volumes and a huge rotunda-like frame help arrange the layout of this office in Moscow, Russia, designed by Alexander Volkov Architects. Locally based Alexander Volkov Architects was tasked...
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UNStudio set to connect Russia and China with world's first international...
Designed as the first ever cross-border cable car the Blagoveshchensk – Heihe Cable Car will be built across the Amur River, which marks the border between eastern Russia and China. UNStudio has...
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Moscow's FanFood offers football supporters a place to grab a post-match pizza
A goalkeeper-themed mural and football kit-coloured fixtures appear inside this pizza restaurant, which architecture studio Mast has created near Dynamo Moscow's stadium in the Russian capital....
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Moscow furniture factory from the 1980s turned into loft-style apartments
DNK Architecture Group has turned a former furniture factory in Moscow into apartments, replacing prefabricated concrete panel cladding with hand-made bricks. Zinc-framed windows punctuate the facade...
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Think tank to research terraforming Earth founded by Moscow’s Strelka Institute
The Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow has launched a postgraduate course to research how the Earth could be terraformed to reverse the impacts of climate change. Called The...
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Christopher Herwig photographs opulent details of Soviet-era metro stations
The Soviet Metro Stations photography series by Christopher Herwig documents the most unusual details of the Soviet-era metro network built between the 1930s and 1980s. Christopher Herwig has...
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Reflective surfaces and light bulbs illuminate cocktail bar in Moscow
More than 2,000 dimmable light bulbs and a selfie-friendly fabric fill the grand interior of this cocktail bar on Moscow's Red Square in Russia. Located in the city's famous 19th-century GUM shopping...
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Cow-print tiles and Tetris-style orange furniture feature in Russian cafe
Russian architect Eduard Eremchuk used Tetris-like orange modular furniture on wheels to solve the problem of limited space in a tiled cafe in Rostov-on-Don. And Y cafe is on a square next to the Don...
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Iosa Ghini Associati counters Moscow's "monotony" with brightly coloured...
Italian architecture studio Iosa Ghini Associati has worked with Russian firm Mosproekt-3 to complete 47 high-rise buildings clad with colourful panels on the outskirts of Moscow. Situated in the...
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Dvekati references 1960s Russia for interior of Moscow office
MDF tiles and blue carpet are some of the simple materials that architecture studio Dvekati has used to furnish this office in Moscow, which takes cues from the pared-back aesthetic of Soviet...
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wHY Architecture reveals design for opera house in Russia
Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre by wHY Architecture will be built on the bank of the Kama River in Perm, Russia, near the Ural mountains. Perm is one of Russia's famous ballet centres,...
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House in Russia hidden beneath artificial green hill
Russian studio Niko Architect has sunk a Teletubby-style house underneath an artificial hill punctuated by conical skylights that pop out of its planted roof. Called House in the Landscape, the...
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PLP Architecture reveals titanium-clad headquarters for Yandex in Moscow
UK-based PLP Architecture has unveiled its design for a 12-storey office for Russian search engine Yandex in Moscow, which will be clad in titanium to create "a beacon" for the company. Set to be built...
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SNKH creates pop-up cinema within "inverted Bedouin tent" in Moscow
Armenian architectural studio SNKH has created a pop-up cinema informed by Bedouin tents outside the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Named the Garage Screen, the pop-up cinema was built in...
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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals design of Moscow metro station
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for the Klenoviy Boulevard Station 2, which is being built in the south of Moscow as part of the expansion of the city's metro system. The...
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"Architects must defend public space" says Elizabeth Diller as she celebrates...
Architect Elizabeth Diller has revealed the "stealthy" way that Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates public spaces – and disclosed how it was accused of corrupting Russian youth after an outbreak of...
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Blockstudio creates Parisian ambience in Moscow apartment
Russian practice Blockstudio has mixed different materials, textures and time periods within this new-build Moscow apartment to create the feeling of a lived-in Parisian interior. Located in a quiet...
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Doughnut-themed cafe in Russia has walls and furniture that look almost edible
Designers Eduard Eremchuk and Katy Pititskaya have created a cafe in Voronezh, Russia, that embodies "the essence of a doughnut" through delicious-looking velvety walls and squidgy seeming furniture....
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UNStudio bisects St Petersburg office with zigzagging atrium
Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has revealed its design for an office in St Petersburg, Russia, which will contain an atrium that rises diagonally through the building. UNStudio designed the large...
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Elena Lokastova creates bright jewellery showroom in Moscow attic space
Russian architect Elena Lokastova has turned the attic space of a Moscow office building into a jewellery showroom with green-carpeted interiors, informed by the patinated copper dome of a monastery...
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Foster + Partners reveals copper-coloured office in Yekaterinburg
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has designed an appropriately coloured office block for the Russian Copper Company in the city of Yekaterinburg, which is the studio's first project in Russia....
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Kettle Collective plans to build world's second tallest tower in Russia
Scottish architecture practice Kettle Collective has unveiled designs for a 703-metre-high supertall skyscraper in St Petersburg, Russia, which would be the second tallest building in the world. Called...
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IKEA Sundvik furniture allegedly made from illegal Russian wood
Investigative research organisation Earthsight has released a report that claims the pine found in IKEA's Sundvik children's furniture range comes from trees illegally felled in protected Russian...
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Tubular holiday home cantilevers over hill in Russian art park
Moscow's chief architect Sergey Kuznetsov has completed a pipe-shaped cabin, constructed like the hull of a ship and balanced on the edge of a slope in Russia's Nikola-Lenivets Art Park. The holiday...
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Sergei Tchoban uses Corten steel to create huge basket-weave facade
Undulating panels of Corten steel create a woven effect across the facade of a seven-storey office block in St Petersburg designed by architect Sergei Tchoban. Ferrum 1 is one of several buildings that...
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SANAA to reconstruct Moscow's Hexagon pavilion for Garage Museum
The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow has announced a collaboration with Japanese studio SANAA to restore a ruined 1920s pavilion and turn it into a major new gallery space. SANAA has created...
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Renzo Piano converts Moscow power station into GES-2 House of Culture
Italian architect Renzo Piano has transformed a former power station in Moscow into a contemporary arts centre for the V-A-C Foundation named GES-2 House of Culture Renzo Piano Building Workshop's...
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Nido adds pale wood and stone furnishings to compact Moscow apartment
Russian studio Nido mixed different volumes and neutral sandy colours to add depth to this minimalist apartment in Moscow. Located in the centre of the Russian capital where apartments are notoriously...
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Russian architects condemn Ukraine invasion in open letter
More than 6,500 Russian architects, designers and urban planners have signed an open letter to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and "demand the immediate end of violent war". The letter, published...
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David Chipperfield Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects suspend work in Russia
Architecture firms David Chipperfield Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects have announced they are halting work on projects in Russia following the country's invasion of Ukraine. David Chipperfield...
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"I'm not building for Putin" says Wolf D Prix in defence of Russian projects
Coop Himmelb(l)au co-founder Wolf D Prix has defended his studio's decision to continue working in Russia following the country's invasion of Ukraine. "I'm not building for Putin, but for the people,"...
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Ukraine celebrates armed forces'"titanic efforts" with Crimean bridge attack...
Ukraine's postal service Ukrposhta has issued a stamp to mark last week's explosion on the bridge connecting Crimea and Russia, which features inside jokes and Titanic movie references. Designed by...
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Postponement of Soviet-era exhibition not about "censorship" says Cooper Union
New York's Cooper Union has defended its decision to postpone its Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde exhibition following a controversial opinion article, which claimed it was inappropriate due...
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