Monday, October 29, 2007

Crazy Looking Soviet Buildings

Because people of the Soviet Union did not get married in churches as Russians do not get married in in churches, they have buildings that are called "Place of Marriage" instead. Personally, would consider this a church anyway. It pretty much looks like one because it has a large tower representing a steeple and what appears to be a large area for a congregation. I find this to be a beautiful building with its curvy shapes and it different style of windows. The flushed color makes it seem pure and cleansed.


When i first saw this building i just wanted to rent one of the compartments. It looks like a mountain of dusty dirt and gives a natural feel, but has a strong modern appeal because of how natural the structure is put together in its boxlike structures. The environment around it appears to be flat and with a lot of lushes greenery, but this building contradicts it environment around it and has a dry, mountainous feel too it.


This piece stood out to me because it almost looks robotic from a movie with technology attacking everyone and bringing the world to a scary ending. It is called the “State Department for Traffic” which is probably why it looks so official. The idea behind this building is interesting but i would not like to see this in any city i live in because it is too bland, although it does have a lot of different structural techniques such as using the number two as a basis on the number of window and sets of rectangular shapes compiled together vertically and horizontally.

Now this building looks like it is about to stand up and open its eyes with two big headlights. This is probably why it is called "A Big Monster." To me it looks like the big marshmallow man that grew to be huge and attacked the city in Ghostbusters. It even has two eyes and a mouth with two eyes up top.

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