Druzhba Sanatorium by Igor Vasilievsky Sebastian Waack

Druzhba Sanatorium Yalta, Ukraine. 1983 Architect: Igor Valikievsky INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH WITH THE ARCHITECT IGOR VALIKEVSKY (Entrevista en español más abajo) Yalta, Crimea This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair. Been Here? 19 Want to Visit? 93 Druzhba health spa. V chekhov/CC BY-SA 4.0 This space age building overlooking the.

Druzhba Sanatorium Yalta, Ukraine. 19831985 Architect Igor Valikievsky

Architecture Druzhba Holiday Center In Yalta Ukraine by Viki 16 days ago 1.4k Views The Iconic Druzhba Holiday Center, Yalta, Ukraine: A Walk Through Architectural Brilliance In Soviet architecture, where form often rigidly followed function, the Druzhba Sanitorium emerged as a striking anomaly. Architect Igor Vasilevsky's 'Druzhba Thermal Sanitorium' aka 'Friendship Sanitorium' in Yalta, Crimea is a huge flying saucer landed on the side of a hill. Demanding our full attention, body and soul. Once a Soviet Sanitorium it has now morphed into the curiously named in English translation, 'Pension Friendship'. The Druzhba sanatorium was built from 1983 till 1985 and is considered the masterpiece of its architect Igor Vasilievsky and engineer Yurij Stefanchuk. The construction was a challenge: three huge concrete pillars were planted in the shoreline. Then two enormous concrete cylinders with a diameter of 76 metres were seated on the three pillars. Druzhba Sanatorium is a health resort located in Yalta, a city on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. Established in 1927, the sanatorium has been providing high-quality health and wellness services for over 90 years. @greyscape

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Druzhba Sanatorium / Igor Vasilevsky Yalta, Crimea 1985 Once a utopian holiday destination, Druzhba Sanatorium resembles a concrete spaceship landed on a hillside by the Black Sea.. Druzhba Sanatorium (Crimea): Interview with the Architect Igor Vasilevsky This is the transcript of the first interview with Igor Vasilevsky that has been translated into English. The interview was conducted by Robin Monotti Graziadei and Nikolai Vassiliev and took place at the Central House of the Architect in Moscow on the 30th May 2016. Architect Igor Vasilevsky's 'Druzhba Thermal Sanitorium' aka 'Friendship Sanitorium' in Yalta, Crimea is a huge flying saucer landed on the side of a hill. D. And then there's the marvellous Druzhba sanatorium by the sea at Yalta, a stack of cogged carousels rising out of a bank of trees, each notch a living space.

Druzhba Sanatorium by Igor Vasilievsky Sebastian Waack

3 The Druzhba sanatorium in Yalta, Ukraine, designed by Igor Vasilevsky and Yuriy Stefanchuk and dating from 1985. "What is fascinating is to realize that basically the trends -- the intellectual. Kurpaty Sanatorium in Yalta, Crimea. Photography: Dimant. Perhaps the most famous is Druzhba sanatorium in Crimea, which resembles a series of stacked cogs. Its futuristic design resulted in the US Department of Defence mistaking it as a rocket launcher when it was built in 1985. Inside the stone-clad semicircle designed by architect Giorgi Chakhava (also the creator of the iconic Soviet-era "Ministry of Roads" building in Tbilisi) is a huge, colorful Soviet-style mosaic depicting scenes of Georgian and Russian history. 2. National Library — Minsk, Belarus Photo: BAHDANOVICH ALENA /Shutterstock Druzhba Sanatorium was a joint Czech and USSR project located in Crimea which began in 1978. The name (Druzhba means Friendship) denoted the friendly collaboration between both countries, even if less than 10 years earlier Operation Danube saw Warsaw Pact tanks roll into Czechoslovakia in 1968, halting the Prague Spring.

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The Druzhba Sanatorium in Yalta, Ukraine, designed by Igor Vasilevsky in 1985, was once mistaken by the Pentagon as a launch pad. Many of the images dispel previous beliefs that there was little. Igor A. Vasilevsky, Druzhba Sanatorium (1985), Kurpaty, Yalta, Ukraine (photo Frederic Chaubin; all images courtesy the publisher) After decades of marginalization, Brutalism has enjoyed a.