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Explore the Home Gift Guide. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Top this past with a new model city, and the result is distinct architectural registers that express the fundamental social tensions of post-Soviet Russia. The elite high-rises offer daily provision of luxuries enjoyed only temporarily by vacationers during the Soviet period, such as resepshen and concierge desks, alongside carefully controlled privacy and security.

The naming and marketing of the new constructions underscores these changing values, as a snobbish nomenclature overwrites a Soviet lexicon of populist names and principles. Even the rebranding of Sochi as an alpine resort conforms to this tendency: The Soviets had laid out the parks and sanatoria in a coherent plan oriented to the worker vacation on a collective and mass scale.

In the intensive planned construction of the s and after the war, architects and city planners collaborated to create a common visual language.

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The projects of today are more notable for their singularity: They do not blend with the existing architecture, but resonate instead with the foreign resorts with which the Russian authorities see themselves contending: As they observe the haphazard development around them, they refer nostalgically to the past, when the city was laid out like a large park, its individual elements integrated by landscaped paths and unifying stylistic and structural elements.

The head of Cultural Affairs at Ordzhonikidze sanatorium spoke at length about the great wisdom of the Soviet architects who integrated the individual resorts along Kurortny Prospect into a unified plan. She could point to a diorama displayed on the grounds of her resort, showing the way Ordzhonikidze was incorporated with neighboring sanatoria, sharing a common landscaping design.

Today many of the sidewalks that formed the network of pedestrian communication between these sites have fallen into disrepair, or, in some cases, into private hands. A recent public waterfront path, beautifully laid out, is lined with private beaches. In his book on sanatorium architecture, Samoilov explicitly identified this link of the physical to the social: Every success in this domain confirms the victory of socialist humanism, and the reality of Stalinist care for the individual.

Kuznetsov, and the Vesnin Brothers. The most famous of these worker palaces was the Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium, which featured high arched ceilings painted by artists from Palekh. In propaganda of the time, Sochi was represented as a place of many mansions, a temporary paradise, and some still remember it that way. Residents of the Boulogne Forest complex in Paris paid exorbitant fees for similar design features, he noted, but in the Soviet case the government had paid this premium. As a result, the sea breeze and mountain winds of Sochi circulated properly through residential areas built according to this principle.

While the pavilion method required greater expense, it was suitable for a city serving as a resort of international stature. This model rationalized the workflow, created efficiencies of scale, and established quality standards. A plant for production of prefabricated construction blocks was built in order to facilitate the process. In his view the city was in dire need of renovation, and was unable to compete with foreign resorts with its former, Soviet infrastructure. Prices in Sochi exceeded value, a problem that would be rectified by reconstruction.

Acknowledging that in the run-up to the Olympics prices continued to be unrealistic, he believed that the market would produce the necessary adjustments, making the new Sochi more accessible. In the summer of an eighteen-month moratorium on new construction was enacted for the entire Krasnodar region resulting from a series of building violations.

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Violations were so extensive that officials could not keep up with their inspection and demolition schedule. The moratorium also aimed to quiet the frenzy of construction in anticipation of the Olympiad. Regional governor Aleksandr Tkachev explained: During the Games Sochi will become the face of the country in the full sense of the term. And we cannot allow uncontrolled construction, noise, and dust to disfigure it. A number of projects approved by the local and national government also went too high, for instance, or proved out of scale with real needs and possibilities.

Most troubling for local citizens were cases where older buildings, such as the Sputnik movie theatre and the Chaika hotel, perished as a result of abortive projects. It resembled the famous Rossiya theatre on Tverskaya in Moscow. In accord with its name, the Sputnik had an airy design, with a tall glass enclosure of its foyer that was dominated by a large space-themed mosaic by Arthur Skripnikov. The port authority even built a small replica of the theatre to house an observation deck in the harbor.

As with the Sputnik, it was demolished with the intention of adding, rather than subtracting: It has also proven easier to plan than to build. Sochi Island was to be connected to the central part of the city, and featured a high-rise resembling the Olympic torch, with ten floors devoted to a boutique hotel and another twenty to apartments.

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It was supposed to be built in , but instead that year the developers were discussing ways of relocating it in shallower waters. At present there is no sign that either of these projects will be carried out. The Gras Siti apartment complex, begun on the grounds of the former Zarya sanatorium, stood for a number of years as nothing more than a foundation. The developers were not able to take orders for the property because it was unclear whether the building was going to be constructed. Meanwhile, construction fencing was covered with advertising showing a young man pulling back a wrap to reveal the future buildings — four magnificent, brightly colored high-rises.

Other promotional materials for the project featured the desired denizens of the new Sochi: Vanity Fair types in white clothing, lounging about on boats and decks. The original structures were never built, but in this case two imposing buildings did appear, which were briefly the tallest in the city. They featured a new design, and were christened with a new name: Nauka , designed by Aleksandr Samoilov, featured cascading steps leading past fountains and gardens from the main corpus to the sea. Built in the s and s, it housed the sanatorium for the ministry of higher education before being taken over by, and renamed, Intourist.

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In the post-Soviet period it had fallen into complete disrepair — windows broken and walls covered with graffiti. In a proposal was made for a hybrid project to be named Kamelia that would include a reconstruction of the original building, enhanced by a new complex featuring a twisting modern tower.



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