This is Rummu, an abandoned soviet prison and forced labor open mine located in Estonia. Underground waters flooded the quarry and the place oddly went ...

The practice of moving buildings in Russia existed long before the Bolshevik Revolution. A famous example took place in 1812, in the town of Morshansk in the Tambov Region, when a peasant ...

The 12 most absurd Soviet-era buildings that are still standing Construction of the 500-metre-tall Palace of the Soviets was halted for World War II and never began again. May 22, 2016, 9:37 AM ...

Mid-20th-century architecture is not remembered with much affectionate by most people. This is especially true in the former communist countries of Europe and Central Asia, where architects of the ...

In the 1950s, premier of the Soviet state Joseph Stalin transformed the skyline of Moscow by building seven-tiered skyscrapers, which filled the horizon like Socialist-era wedding cakes. The ...

Now some architects are resurrecting traditional techniques to help keep buildings cool. From western Europe to China , North Africa and the US , severe heatwaves brought drought, fire and death ...

Traveling across Central Asia’s former Soviet republics, Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego captured the largely unknown modernist buildings that shaped the area’s urban ...

LONDON — Mid-20th century architecture is not remembered with much affection by most people. This is especially true in the former communist countries of Europe and Central Asia, where ...