Worth a look... :eek:

http://www.ostmoderne.com/

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Great link. Thanks Mark! :cheers:

indredible. how did you find it? :cheers:

A surprise...

Fascinating, but what is this?

indredible. how did you find it? :cheers:

Cannot take credit for it really. The RIBA send out an email every week on World Issues relating to architecture. This was one of the links.... fascinating :wondering

PeterE. No idea mate! Looks like it may have been meant as urinals...

Awesome Site - Thanks :clap:

WOW!!:cool:

Fascinating, but what is this?
easy. the answer is in the picture... it is a famous story that they don't use hands in communist countries... :P

easy. the answer is in the picture... it is a famous story that they don't use hands in communist countries... :P

Yeah but theres no grill, hole, drainage or anthing visible :wondering

Amazing work. Several of these look like important works of architecture that most of the world does not know.

Swank-e said it best when he said… :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

there is an "english" tag on the left at this site!

easy. the answer is in the picture... it is a famous story that they don't use hands in communist countries... :P

Yes, but it also says "Kyev Club". :confused:

Maybe some sort of dada or surreal influence. The guy in the "urinal" looks like something from Magritte.

Yes, but it also says "Kyev Club". :confused:
Well, gathering the information available, I think this part is the "Kyev Club".
I have seen a simpler toilette in China.
It was like doing it in the middle of a field, but with a stranger sitting right next to me.

Make a great cover for a 'Talking Heads' album. What a great site.

I guess the wall is like a "mini-waterfall" with water running from top to bottom, and you just do your stuff on it.... :wondering

Privacy was never an issue when you considered Kiev and the former Soviet regime

Sorry to be so obsessed with this, but another clue is the title of this photo.

Doesen't "treppenhaus" translate as "stair hall"?

You can see a light line in the doorway floor probably marking a slope towards the backwall to make sure the liquids stay inside the cubicle. A darker line near the backwall intersection with the floor marks what probably is a line drain along the wall.

Maybe it's a teleporter. :D

:cool:

hehehehhehe :D
oh, my architects :D

There is not toilet, absolutely! :D
PeterE - bingo!!!

Club is over, wc below..the stairs are near.

There was place for cleaning shoe, I think :D

Toilets have doors, hehehe .It' s not military range but hotel :D

hehehehhehe :D
oh, my architects :D

There is not toilet, absolutely! :D
PeterE - bingo!!!

Club is over, wc below..the stairs are near.

There was place for cleaning shoe, I think :D

Toilets have doors, hehehe .It' s not military range but hotel :D


OK, not a toilet, but what is that man doing? :confused:

PaterE
OK, not a toilet, but what is that man doing?

It's only for photo, I am certain :)
They were in hotels machines for cleaning shoe, near stairs.
I have been born in Poland in 1970 year , I remember these machines :D

I have been born in communist times in Poland (1970).
I remember strikes, internment, censure. Only russian (polish, czech) movies and programs in television.
But Poland It's homeland of Jan Paweł II and Lech Wałęsa.All over the world knows these surnames :) .

I know russian language perfectly. I did not have english in school :( .
But my daughter learn english and german from 4 year old :) She can study in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Harvard, architecture perhaps? :D

We are country opened on world, on new ideas now :) But it scants architectonic education, knowledge, tastes, cultures :(. 99% private investors builds traditional houses.
I advertise modern houses on polish forum. It's very, very hard sometimes :o (ignorance, understanding , criticism of modern architecture).
It's very sad sometimes for me.
It isn't a problem of money. Rich people build houses as palaces. They prefer marble and gold, not concret and stell.

But not all :D Youngs polish architects are perfect and talented :D .
It's our future !!! :D

mimi : )

99% private investors builds traditional houses.

Particularly for houses this is true in US as well. I think it is true internationally.

Great link!!
i love u !! :craqueur:

I have been born in communist times in Poland (1970).
I remember strikes, internment, censure. Only russian (polish, czech) movies and programs in television.

Hello,

Amazing site...but truly what I remember of Bratislava in 1989. I was invited by friends architects met in a IAA workshop (By the way, anybody has been in a IAA workshop here ?)
Getting your pass and crossing the communist borders was very very difficult then : police, army, gates everywhere. Surrealist as these photos (Yes it was less than 20 years ago !)

Fortunately, things have changed.

Regards

Francesco

Fortunately, things have changed.

Yes, my children can live in democratic country :D

Typical housing estate in poland (70-80') -grey, ugly, concrete, sad :o

Yes, my children can live in democratic country
Typical housing estate in poland (70-80') -grey, ugly, concrete, sad

My friends' kids were born in Slovaquia, and not in CSSR. I guess your kids never knew communist Poland..

About those buildings, they were exactly the same from Berlin to Ulan-Bator, didn't they ?

Cheers.

...and new housing estate (2000') - individual interiors projects, color, convenient (stores, garages), beautiful garden and square, water, fountain, bridge ...and my "Tulips" and tulips http://murator.com.pl/forum/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif

Francesco

My friends' kids were born in Slovaquia, and not in CSSR. I guess your kids never knew communist Poland..

About those buildings, they were exactly the same from Berlin to Ulan-Bator, didn't they ?

Cheers.

Julia is 4 years old :D
buildings ....style vel NRD (Eastern germany) style - the same, You have reason :D

Typical house - box (60-80'), Poland

p.s. New colors of houses are sometimes terrible - f.ex. pink as ... ;)

Old apartement - house , pavilion (90') and new house with tower - rich people want to live in houses -castles.
Total architectonic dysharmony :puke:

new "fashion" - pseudo -graffiti :o

"targowisko" - Market in each city - very typical; often in city center (small, poor villages)

"garażowisko" - garage -very typical near "residential" housing estate (60-80')

Polish City's architecture - old and "new" (60-80')

Beautiful ,old, original doors ... needless ??? :(

post - war communist "individual" houses (70')- terrible !

New roof - only half of building (sic!!!)
"beautiful" advertising - very typical :o

Beautiful wood house - "renewed":
1/2 pcv siding
1/2 ceramic tiles
pcv windows (pcv is 50 % cheap) :(

stop stop stop...
It is necessary a lot of time for change it. A lot of money and very important - wise decisions.

thanks - mimi

The worse of all : people with a lot of money and without any cultural background.
We have a good collection of this kind here in Belgium.
They become dangerous when then decide to build their home : towers, statues, giant garages and...tons of 'golden' hardware.
People are the same everywhere.

Thanks for the photos, Mimi.

Francesco

I agree with you again, Francesco :)

Good taste, knowledge/education, culture, estimate for history and tradition, sense of esthetics ------> wise decisions - are more important than money! :)
I will not show "collection" of castles, palaces, country manors etc. ;) :P

We have a good collection of this kind here in Belgium.

hm?? I am surprised. You have beautiful architecture and fines gardens :) And my favorite - wonderful brick !!! :D (I like brick in interiors, with steel and wood).
thanks