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.
Month July 2015
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, a sense of control was…
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 as Socialist Classicism, and Polish…
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 well. Other parts were replaced…
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 them of their bark, and…