Russian traditional (wooden) architecture

[Hors]

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

[Brynhild]

Sorry Hors, but when I opened that page, the site was declared as having a virus.

[The Lawspeaker]

What about trying these then ?

http://visualrian.com/lists/item/11762

http://www.russia-ic.com/culture_art/museums/377/

http://www.avantart.com/russ/oct97/mkarelie.html

http://www.museum.vladimir.ru/eng/to...mdz_e?menu=mdz

[Absinthe]

These buildings frighten me They remind me of the doomed Church in Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness". Sorry, just had to say that

[Hors]

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.

[Hors]

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.

[The Lawspeaker]

Some more pictures of Kizhi:

[The Lawspeaker]

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.

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.

[Vargtand]

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

[Hors]

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?