Photos of the Day for December 20, 2016

Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (V/VIII):  Old Town Square area.  Old Town Square and nearby streets contain a mix of late imperial (both czarist and Soviet) vernacular styles. Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (V/VIII):  каля плошчы Старое Места.     Buildings from the end of the XIXth/beginning of the XXth… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 20, 2016

Photos of the Day for December 19, 2016

Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (IV/VIII):  Soviet post-World War II housing architecture.  Except for a brief period of constructivist experimentation in the 1920s, Soviet architecture left a mostly dismal patrimony:  buildings and spaces contemptuous of the human scale; dreary pre-fab blocks; kitschy, spoglia-like recycling of classical elements after having brutally rejected the western… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 19, 2016

Photos of the Day for December 18, 2016

Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (III/VIII).  Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (III/VIII).     Functionalism III: former garrison of the Polish Army’s 86-th regiment. Функцыяналізм III:  былы гарнізон 86-а палка ВП.     Former communications center for the Polish Army’s 86th regiment, now an apartment building, Chkalava Street 9. Былы… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 18, 2016

Photos of the Day for December 17, 2016

Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (II/VIII).  Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (II/VIII). Functionalism II: former garrison of the Polish Army’s 86-th regiment. Функцыяналізм ІІ:  былы гарнізон 86-а палка ВП.   Former Polish Army NCO barracks, refaced by local authorities in anticipation of the national harvest festival, held in Maladzjechna in… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 17, 2016

Photos of the Day for December 16, 2016

Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (I/VIII).  Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (I/VIII). A city of 100,000 about 70 kilometers to the northwest of Mjensk, Maladzjechna goes about its business with quiet dignity and a firm sense of local identity and history.  Maladzjechna is known for its college of music, named… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 16, 2016