A maximum security prison in Greenland looks like an art center or gallery, and those serving their sentences there have a view of a picturesque fjord.Ekaterina KarpukhinaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe Danish studios Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Friis & Moltke worked on an unusual project — a high-security prison where convicted of serious crimes

In 2021, Italy celebrates the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, its most famous poet, the author of the Divine Comedy, who is called the father of the modern Italian language. In honor of this, in the “last refuge of the poet”, the city of Ravenna, where he

The expedition team of the Trajectory Foundation built an authentic replica of the mill in the village of Gafostrov, which has stood on this site since 1886.Ekaterina KarpukhinaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteGafostrov is an abandoned village, which, thanks to the work of enthusiasts, has acquired the status of a historical settlement. The buildings remaining

An amphitheater, a workout area and a cozy square in the renovated Riviera Park designed by the architectural bureau ab2.0.Teresa PoghosyanEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteIn Soviet times, the Riviera beach was one of the most popular in Sochi. But over time, due to the lack of comfortable pedestrian connections with the cape, the infrastructure

The Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron presented the first images of the ST/SongEun building. An office and cultural center is planned to open in the capital of South Korea in September this year.Nadezhda PavlovaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe lower levels of the new building house an exhibition space for the SongEun non-profit Foundation

The construction of a new 13-storey museum dedicated to the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has been completed in Oslo.Ekaterina KarpukhinaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe Spanish studio Estudio Herreros has built a new museum on the waterfront in the Bjorvik district, which will house the world's largest collection of works by Edvard Munch. It will

Next weekend Moscow will celebrate its 874th birthday. On a huge area of 2500 km2, it is easy to find examples of European Gothic, buildings in the spirit of the East, examples of the architectural past, and fantasies about the future in the form of futuristic buildings. We admire the

The architectural bureau Ennead Architects has designed an astronomical museum in Shanghai that resembles a celestial body in shape and allows visitors to experience the laws of gravity.Teresa PoghosyanEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe total area of the museum is 39,000 m2. The museum building is huge, consists exclusively of smooth lines and has no

A minimalist house with strict shapes and tactile surfaces.Ksenia OshchepkovaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteArchitects from the studio Bak Gordon Arquitectos designed a laconic house with a symmetrical facade that frames an elongated pool. The authors used the language of simple geometric shapes to contrast the building with the natural landscape, and for harmony they

On June 22, as part of the festival “Archstoyanie”, the opening of a new art object by Sergey Kuznetsov took place. The pipe house designed by the chief architect of Moscow was named “Russian Ideal" and reflected the philosophical reflections of the author.Ekaterina GoncharenkoEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThis year the festival in Nikola-Lenivets is