Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta, Crimea. Built in 1985 and designed by Igor


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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.


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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.


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Druzhba Sanatorium Yalta, Ukraine. 19831985 Architect Igor Valikievsky

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.


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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 by Igor Vasilievsky Sebastian Waack

Building «Druzhba»: Double two-level Suite (room size is 26 sq.m) Room amenities: there is a lounge on the 1st level and a bedroom on the second, a bathroom unit (shower, toilet, washbasin), TV set, refrigerator, air conditioner in the bedroom, telephone, a balcony. View of the sea. Extra bed is a sofa. Maximum capacity is 4 guests.


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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.


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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.


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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.


Druzhba Sanatorium Extends The Hand Of Friendship Greyscape

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.


Druzhba Sanatorium Extends The Hand Of Friendship Greyscape

Druzhba Sanatorium Yalta, Ukraine. 1983 Architect: Igor Valikievsky INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH WITH THE ARCHITECT IGOR VALIKEVSKY (Entrevista en español más abajo)


Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta, Crimea. Built in 1985 and designed by Igor

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.


Druzhba Sanatorium Extends The Hand Of Friendship Greyscape

Druzhba Sanatorium was a joint Czech and USSR project located in Crimea which began in 1978. The name (Druzhba means Friendship) denoted the supposed 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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Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr).


Druzhba Sanatorium Yalta, Ukraine. 19831985 Architect Igor

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.

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