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Bratislava apartments built during the Soviet occupation. Once a dull, base concrete color, most have now been painted a brighter gray with splashes of color added. We were lucky enough to do some home visits and found that the buildings are well constructed, with rooms that were larger and brighter than I expected.
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Abandoned Historic Bathhouse / Spa, opened in 1916, after three years of construction.
When the bathhouse was opened, it offered a variety of attractions and invited to rest and well-being.
The representative three-wing Art Nouveau building had two separate swimming pools, for men and women. The men's pool had a size of 32 x 12 meters, had a three-meter springboard and a wave system that could produce up to a meter-high waves.
The bathhouse also offered a variety of medical and therapeutic services, baths and sweat baths, orthopedic gymnastics, four-cell baths and inhalations.
The showpiece of the building was the ladies' sauna in the Moorish style.
As if from an oriental fairy tale, magnificent arcades, columns, arches, ceilings and wall mosaics with filigree ornaments in intense colors. The focal point of the room was an ornamental tiled fountain surrounded by seating for relaxing and dreaming.
The ladies sauna is now a listed building.
Despite extensive reconstruction work in the 80s, the operation had to be discontinued in July 2004 because of the poor state of construction.
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Verlassene historische Badeanstalt / Spa, eröffnet 1916, nach dreijähriger Bauzeit.
Als die Badeanstalt eröffnet wurde, bot sie eine Vielzahl an Attraktionen und lud zum Ausruhen und Wohlfühlen ein.
Der repräsentative dreiflügelige Jugendstil Bau hatte zwei getrennte Schwimmhallen, für Männer und Frauen. Das Herrenschwimmbecken hatte eine Größe von 32 x 12 Metern, verfügte über ein Drei-Meter-Sprungbrett und eine Wellenanlage, die bis zu einem Meter hohe Wellen erzeugen konnte.
Die Badeanstalt bot auch eine Vielzahl von medizinischen und therapeutischen Angeboten, Wannen- und Schwitzbäder, orthopädisches Turnen, Vierzellenbäder und Inhalationen.
Prunkstück des Baues war die Damen Sauna im maurischen Stil.
Wie aus einem orientalischen Märchen, prächtige Arkadengänge, Säulen, Bögen, Decken und Wandmosaike mit filigranen Verzierungen in intensiven Farben. Den Mittelpunkt des Raums bildet ein mit Ornament Fliesen versehener Brunnen, um den herum sich Sitzgelegenheiten zum Entspannen und Träumen befunden haben.
Die Damen Sauna steht heute unter Denkmalschutz.
Trotz umfangreicher Rekonstruktionsarbeiten in den 80er Jahren, musste der Betrieb im Juli 2004 wegen des schlechten baulichen Zustands eingestellt werden.
I was just playing around with different minifig desgins then thought of this, I think its pretty good for a purist torso
Ground floor of a Soviet era built apartment building in Žižkov district. Original shot out of my phone, made with Vivid filter on top as usual.
Update (17-Oct-2018): I've visited this place again last weekend and found out that it has been repaired and doesn't look this way anymore. This photo could be considered historical as from now. :)
P.S. There are at least 10 floors in this building and it is located in historic part of the city. If you can get roof access there, probably you can make unusual panoramas over this part of the city.
Here is a close-up image of the Fishbed's cramped cockpit. The larger scale of the model allowed for greater detail. I also recently modified the canopy, making it less bulky than before and adjusting the profile to resemble the original aircraft better.
Fed-2 with Industrar lenses and expited Soviet Film.
\Industrar 26M 50mm f/2.8
Industar 22 50mm f/3.5 collapsible lens.
The monument of Arab-Soviet Friendship (Lotus Flower) by architects Piotr Pavlov, Juri Omeltchenko and sculptor Nikolay Vechkanov
Located on the west bank of the River Nile, the Egyptian Russian Friendship Monument is situated close to the High Dam and is hard to miss, being built to commemorate Russia's involvement when the dam was constructed . Based upon the five petals of an actual lotus flower, this Egyptian Russian Friendship Monument towers more than 70 metres / 230 feet into the air. An observation deck stands part way up and offers some impressive panoramic vistas across the Dam and beyond
The redo is here! I did not consider with my first version that this was a fiberglass movie-made vehicle built on a 1980s Jeep chassis. Thankfully, I looked at a couple prop sites that sold the duck in the past, and lo and behold, they had dimensions! It’s quite a bit wider than a real WWII Ford GPA or GAZ 46 (~81cm difference makes the Indy one about two studs wider).
All pieces can be acquired in real life!
Also, any Russian speakers know what the rear text means? Google translate gives gibberish. Vehicle code?
During the construction of Novopolotsk, architects and artists worked closely with each other. As a result of this cooperation, specialists from Vitebsk art workshops have created mosaics on a variety of topics on new houses. Despite the fact that some of the mosaics have already been destroyed, the total volume of mosaic panels in Novopolotsk remains one of the largest in the republic.
При строительстве г. Новополоцка архитекторы и художники плотно сотрудничали друг с другом. В результате этого сотрудничества на новых домах специалистами Витебских художественных мастерских появились мозаики на самые разные темы. Несмотря на то, что часть мозаик уже уничтожена, общий объём мозаичных панно в Новополоцке остаётся одним из крупнейших в республике.
Standing in the gazebo that you have previously seen this picture: www.flickr.com/photos/sergefreeman/21762768749
Part of the ornate world of Moscow's metro system. Designed under Stalin's orders to be "Palaces under the ground", much remains of the dictator's lasting legacy seen by millions of Muscovites every day as they travel through ornate stations more akin to art galleries than a public transport system