New East Digital Archive

Soviet Architecture

Soviet po-mo: what can we learn from Georgia's forgotten master architect?

Soviet po-mo: what can we learn from Georgia’s forgotten master architect?

Imagine Moscow: London exhibition explores the city that could have been

Imagine Moscow: London exhibition explores the city that could have been

Follow of the week: Soviet mosaics from the Far East to Moscow

Follow of the week: Soviet mosaics from the Far East to Moscow

1.6 million to be rehoused in huge Moscow demolition project

1.6 million to be rehoused in huge Moscow demolition project

Celebrate the utopianism of Russian avant garde architecture with this silk scarf

Celebrate the utopianism of Russian avant garde architecture with this silk scarf

Minsk: Owen Hatherley on the world's most complete, and most surprising Soviet city

Minsk: Owen Hatherley on the world’s most complete, and most surprising Soviet city

Gift guide: give a little New East to your friends and family this Christmas

Gift guide: give a little New East to your friends and family this Christmas

Belly of the beast: see the human side of Warsaw's controversial Soviet skyscraper

Belly of the beast: see the human side of Warsaw’s controversial Soviet skyscraper

Road trip: follow our inspirational journey through the Caucasus mountains to the top of the world

Road trip: follow our inspirational journey through the Caucasus mountains to the top of the world

Beyond history: how does Armenia's capital city resolve its Soviet past with its capitalist present?

Beyond history: how does Armenia’s capital city resolve its Soviet past with its capitalist present?

Georgian Soviet-era architecture featured among top ten Brutalist buildings

Georgian Soviet-era architecture featured among top ten Brutalist buildings

Empire state of mind: how do you update a vast Stalinist exhibition space for the present day?

Empire state of mind: how do you update a vast Stalinist exhibition space for the present day?

Beauty and the east: is it time to kick our addiction to ruin porn?

Beauty and the east: is it time to kick our addiction to ruin porn?

Welcome to Tirana: the Albanian capital through an analogue camera lens

Welcome to Tirana: the Albanian capital through an analogue camera lens

The long view: should Kiev erase its Soviet past or learn to live with history, asks Owen Hatherley

The long view: should Kiev erase its Soviet past or learn to live with history, asks Owen Hatherley

Concrete tapestries: how the traditional yurt lives on in Kazakhstan's tower blocks

Concrete tapestries: how the traditional yurt lives on in Kazakhstan’s tower blocks

Aisles of plenty: reading Moscow's history through its shopping mall design

Aisles of plenty: reading Moscow’s history through its shopping mall design

Memory palace: inside Russia's crumbling houses of culture

Memory palace: inside Russia’s crumbling houses of culture