RussiaIt's believed that the Russian wooden architecture is the most fine and sophisticated in the world.
Judge for yourself
http://bibliotekar.ru/rusZod/index.htm
Follow the links on the right
Russian traditional (wooden) architecture
It's believed that the Russian wooden architecture is the most fine and sophisticated in the world.
Judge for yourself
http://bibliotekar.ru/rusZod/index.htm
Follow the links on the right
Sorry Hors, but when I opened that page, the site was declared as having a virus.
Last edited by The Lawspeaker; 04-18-2009 at 03:46 PM.
‘Quel autre pays ou l’on puisse jouir d’une liberté si entière’
(In welk ander land kan men genieten van een zo totale vrijheid)
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René Descartes over de Nederlandse Republiek.
These buildings frighten meThey remind me of the doomed Church in Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness".
Kizhi, Northern Russia
During WWII the Finnish command ordered to bomb the Kizhi complex out, but the Finnish pilot who was assigned on the mission did not accomplish it when he saw how beautiful it was and lied to his command that the object was destroyed, while he dropped the bomb in the Onega Lake.
Well, it looks like there are decent people even among Finns. Thanks a lot and live long, Laus-Dey Saxel! (phoenetic translation from Russian) If only all Finns were that human.
Last edited by Hors; 04-18-2009 at 03:42 PM.
Tristan
Your last picture has nothing to do with Russian architecture. It's a craze project of the wooden skyscraper in Arkhangelsk. It was so ugly the authorities bulldozed it off.
Some more pictures of Kizhi:
‘Quel autre pays ou l’on puisse jouir d’une liberté si entière’
(In welk ander land kan men genieten van een zo totale vrijheid)
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René Descartes over de Nederlandse Republiek.
I didn't know. I thought that it was some contemporary project but the idea of building a skyscraper out of wood amazed me and I thought that the project was not yet completed. So I'll remove it.Originally Posted by Hors
‘Quel autre pays ou l’on puisse jouir d’une liberté si entière’
(In welk ander land kan men genieten van een zo totale vrijheid)
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René Descartes over de Nederlandse Republiek.
Very nice architecture! though it does not rival Norse stave churches.. then again these seem to still stand unlike most of ours so I dunno
Yeah, I kept the Norse stave churches in mind as the the closest rival. Still, the Russian wooden architecture is cooler.
Do you use nails inyour stave churches? What's the oldest stave church which still exists?
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