WHAT THE POST-COMMUNIST RICH LIKE TO BUILD IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION - PHOTOS OF GARISH ARCHITECTURE

Moscow. Frank Herbert, Daily Mail

Buildings fit for an oligarch! The amazing collection of garish post-Soviet projects constructed since the fall of Communism.

A photographer spent four years travelling across the former Soviet Union, taking pictures of the grand new buildings constructed since the fall of Communism. 

 

Frank Herfort captured the nouveau imperial splendour in the ex-USSR after driving across Russia and former Soviet republics like Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Belarus, between 2009 and 2013.  Architects, it seems, are encouraged to be as bold as possible, as his images show.

 

‘You feel that each building wants to scream out, that I'm the best, the biggest, the richest. It is now more a question of prestige, which didn’t play any role in the Soviet times,’ says Herfort, from Germany. 

 

Read more and see pictures of strange new architecture

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605036/post-soviet-buildings.html

 

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