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5 Responses to “Totalitarian architecture”

1. Mike Spilligan, on February 6th, 2013 at 15:11 Said:

   Ah…but you ought to see the new Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg! (JH is bound to be interested, knowing his depth of Russian experience.)

   
   
2. James Higham, on February 6th, 2013 at 16:07 Said:

   http://www.mariinsky.ru/en

   http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrqwsldHDe1r3229do1_1280.jpg

   http://www.russiantourguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mariinsky_theatre-2.jpg

   
   
3. Mike Spilligan, on February 6th, 2013 at 21:09 Said:

   JH: Thanks for those pics – but they’re of the original one. There is a new one (I’ve got no pics) looking like a warehouse or, more kindly, a shopping mall.

   
   
4. James Higham, on February 6th, 2013 at 21:38 Said:

   http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/russia/new_mariinsky_theatre_dpa260608_cperraultprojets.jpg

   http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/andrea01/mariinsky01.jpg

   
   
5. Mike Spilligan, on February 7th, 2013 at 12:16 Said:

   Thanks for those. The “artists’ impressions” are now in solid metal and masonry fabric, and are receiving “failed” verdicts from the knowledgeable. Thanks, anyway.