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The newly emerging Russian state had begun searching for its civic identity. Under Stalin, a singular vision was beginning to form and is evident in the 1935 central plan of Moscow. Moscow was to become an international metropolis and the crown jewel…

Project for the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects

X-ray had become such a critical piece of equipment since WWI that it was one of the first pieces of equipment that needed to be imported to the hospital. Just a few decades earlier, Röntgen rays (X-ray) was discovered in 1895, and the phenomenon…

The architectural contest for the Palace of the Soviets (1931–1933) was won by Boris Iofan's neoclassical concept, subsequently revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh into a skyscraper. If built, it would have become the world's…

Vintage Postcard: The Elephant Gate at Number 9 Budapester Strasse

I visualized the series of (population density, GDP, GDP per capita, FDI) on a map that juxtaposes provinces of China and other countries in the Silk Road region, so they are in a sense more comparable in scale. Data sources includes World Bank …

A horse-drawn omnibus on Nevsky Prospekt in Petersburg, 1900. K. Bulla's photo studio can be seen in the background.