Month: July 2015

  • Polish Architecture in Buildings

    Polish Architecture in Buildings

    In contrast to the Soviet architecture, Polish Architecture offers more colour and a softer more comforting feel; it includes a context or environment for its buildings.

  • Soviet Architecture in Statues

    Soviet Architecture in Statues

    The statues outside the Palace of Culture and Science, like the reliefs posted earlier, reflect a form of Socialist Realism intended to covey the communist values of the proletariat.  Against the backdrop of the Palace,…

  • Soviet Architecture in Buildings

    Soviet Architecture in Buildings

    The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw was conceived as a “gift from the Soviet people to the Polish nation”, and was completed in 1955.  Architecturally, it is a mix of Stalinist architecture, also known…

  • Soviet Architecture in Relief

    Soviet Architecture in Relief

    Warsaw is another European city devastated–turned to rubble–during the second war. With a pre-war population of 1.5 million; 30,000 remained at the end.   Images for Warsaw 1945 offers some sense.   The old city was rebuilt remarkably…

  • Passing Wind
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    Passing Wind

    39 years ago I began the process of building a log cabin on a piece of property I owned in the Eastern Townships just outside Montreal.  The first step was to receive the logs, peal…