A writer, architect and designer, Edwin Heathcote has been Architecture and Design critic at The Financial Times since 1999, and is founder and editor-in-chief of Reading Design. He has authored more than a dozen books on architecture and design, and is also the Keeper of Meaning of the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House, London.
is that it is incredibly rich in profoundly photogenic buildings that appear simultaneously utopian in their conception and intent and distinctly dystopian in their dilapidated states of disrepair.
It was with Leonid Brezhnev’s coming to power in 1964 that the focus shifted to the many, vast regions of the country with a certain loosening of central control; and they, in turn, began to express emerging modern identities through architecture.
This was also often done through the invention of wholly new building types, socialist equivalents to the cathedrals of the past. There were wedding palaces such as Tbilisi’s castle-like Palace of Ceremonies and funerary centres like the same architect's Mukhatgverdi Ceremonial Hall and the strange, haunting Park of Memory in Kyiv .
The 1974 Hotel Uzbekistan, designed by Ilya Merport, L Yershova and V Rashchupkin, with a curved façade based on the ornate lattices of Islamic architecture; also from Wallpaper’s trip to The Wallpaper* guide to winter perfume has been compiled by our beauty editor Hannah Tindle, including scents from the likes of Bottega Veneta, Frederic Malle and Marissa ZappasTour a warm and welcoming modernist sanctuary set on the edge of a Los Angeles canyon
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