Methods of load research on the buildings structure in the early twentieth century

I want to write how Antoni Gaudi created models of their buildings. It should be noted that in those days there were no computers, strength calculations were not created accurately. If it was a bridge or supporting columns, the calculated cross section with squaring and multiplying almost at 3-5 times. That is why many ancient or medieval buildings so firmly stand still - the whole thing is that the designers have done a very large margin of safety (which, of course, does not negate their knowledge of architecture, shapes and materials).

Smart and Merry?

In this post I would like to express some of my thoughts concerning the newly built  Entertaining Centre in Moscow – “KVN planet” building not far from Mar’ina Roscha metro station. KVN – “The Club of the smart and the merry” is a Russian humor TV show-competition.  In the year of 2012 a building of “Havana” cinema theatre was presented to KVN   by Russian government with the aim of transforming it into a new concert platform. Afterwards a competition between Russian architectural companies took place where different architects and designers offered their own modern solutions for a new façade. 

New luxury with deep roots

The exhibition ‘Less and More: New Luxuries in an Age of Austerity’ in Manezh displays 41 objects of Dutch conceptual designers from Droog Studio. Most of these pieces are highly recognizable as they were published in almost every book about design.

Renny Ramakers, co-founder of the Droog design studio, created this project to support young designers and introduce their works to the world design community. Today objects made by Droog Studio are a part of collections in all biggest museums. And are currently shown in Moscow.