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The Frunze Workers’ Club is the smallest and simplest of the five clubs Konstantin Melnikov’s designed in Moscow during his “golden period”.
Completed in 1929 on the territory of the Dorogomilov chemical plant, the central rectangular volume of the club, with a roof sloping downward to the rear..

One of the largest pre-war Leningrad House of Culture construction is the Leningrad Soviet Recreation Centre, built by the architects E.A. Levinson and V.O. Munz. The culture club changed his name 1960 to Lensovet House of Culture.

The Rusakov Workers’ Club in Moscow is a notable example of Constructivist architecture. Designed by Konstantin Melnikov, it was constructed in 1927-28. The club is built on a fan-shaped plan, with three cantilevered concrete seating areas rising above the base. Each of these volumes can be used..

The Svoboda Factory Club, conceived as the Chemists Trade Union Club and also known as the Maxim Gorky Palace of Culture, is a listed memorial Constructivist building in Moscow, Russia, designed by Konstantin Melnikov in 1927 and completed in 1929.

The initial concept for the Svoboda Club was..

The Zuyev (also: Zuev) Workers’ Club in Moscow is a prominent work of constructivist architecture. Designed by Ilya Golosov in 1926 and completed in 1928, it housed various facilities to educate and entertain Moscow workers in line with the revolution.

The composition of this building is based..

The Club was commissioned by the cooperative of the Burevestnik shoe factory.
The initial concept consisted in a big auditorium with a swimming pool underneath, which could be covered during performance. However, this swimming pool could not be realised because of insufficient water supply. The..

This building is the only building constructed and realised by Le Corbusier in Moscow.

Due to lack of materials and political quarrels, the construction of this building was delayed substantially. There were several modifications in the realised building in comparison to the initial plan. For..

Saint-Pierre is a concrete building in the commune of Firminy, France. The last major work of Le Corbusier, it was completed in 2006, forty-one years after his death. Designed to be a church in the model city of Firminy Vert, the construction of Saint-Pierre was begun in 1971, six years after Le..