And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If you need to mind the business of every other person living in the building then it may be better for everyone if you stick to single family homes. Other people shouldn't have to put up with a nosy neighbor.
In 1972, the first building of this unusual shape was built, designed by architect Evgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov. Located in the Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye district in western Moscow, on Nezhinskaya Street, the building is circular in shape, popularly known as the "Bublik." The residential building contains 913 apartments. According to the architects' plan, in anticipation of the 1980 Olympics, Moscow was to have at least five such buildings, symbolizing the Olympic symbol of five rings. In essence, the idea was quite intriguing. Five gigantic rings—one of which, it should be noted, is 155 meters in diameter—representing the Olympics would certainly have attracted foreigners, and it was a very interesting Soviet "thing." A plan to build all of Moscow with such buildings was even considered. However, the plan was ultimately abandoned.
What happened in 1980?
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DeleteLooks good with the green space, but looking good isn't enough... what kind of people live there?
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ReplyDeleteIn 1972, the first building of this unusual shape was built, designed by architect Evgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov. Located in the Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye district in western Moscow, on Nezhinskaya Street, the building is circular in shape, popularly known as the "Bublik." The residential building contains 913 apartments.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the architects' plan, in anticipation of the 1980 Olympics, Moscow was to have at least five such buildings, symbolizing the Olympic symbol of five rings. In essence, the idea was quite intriguing. Five gigantic rings—one of which, it should be noted, is 155 meters in diameter—representing the Olympics would certainly have attracted foreigners, and it was a very interesting Soviet "thing." A plan to build all of Moscow with such buildings was even considered. However, the plan was ultimately abandoned.
I wonder if these had any influence on the architect of Apple's Cupertino campus, or if that similarity is just a coincidence?
ReplyDeleteIt makes a giant snocone in the winter.
ReplyDeleteWith any of the 13% living there it would be unbearably noisy if they were chatting in the court yard at all hours.
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