Vasily Surikov, Venice. Saint Mark’s Basilica, 1884. Watercolour on paper. Private collection.
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The Sutyagin House was a wooden house in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
The 13-story, 144-foot-tall residence (44 m) of the local entrepreneur Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin was reported to be the world’s, or at least Russia’s, tallest wooden house. Constructed by Mr. Sutyagin and his family over 15 years (starting in 1992), without formal plans or a building permit, the structure deteriorated while Mr. Sutyagin spent a few years in prison for racketeering.
In 2008, it was condemned by the city as a fire hazard, and the courts ordered it to be demolished by February 1, 2009. On December 26, 2008, the tower was pulled down, and the remainder was dismantled manually over the course of the next several months. The remaining four-storey structure burned to the ground on May 6, 2012.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1544827/Gangster-who-built-worlds-tallest-log-cabin.html
Tatlin’s Tower or The Monument to the Third International is a grand monumental building envisioned by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin, but never built. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern (the third international).
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Giorgio Grassi - Renovation of the Sagunto Roman theater, Valencia 1985-1992. A phenomenal project; the complexity of the patchwork and restructuring of the fragile ruins becomes apparent in the detail image of the column supports. Images via.
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Enzo Bifoli (1882-1965), Italian architect.
Make sure to take a look at the high resolution versions where you can see all the mad detail.
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