Designer (Architecture and Interior), founding partner of YY Projects. Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong. Holds a M.Arch ...

Dmytro Soloviovs has travelled through Ukraine's war-torn cities to capture the country's rich architectural heritage amidst ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

Travis Long [email protected] The Bath Building’s design is a form of modern architecture known as brutalism, which favored plain, often hulking concrete exteriors. Brutalism was most ...

I disappeared for three weeks to visit Soviet Jewish refuseniks during Passover. Forty years later, the lessons I learned about the human capacity for cruelty and bovine thoughtlessness – and ...

The KGB, the best hockey players in the world, a classic Canadian barbecue and some frosty bottles of Labatt Blue.

So, apart from those legal fights, the fact remains that the U.S. has sent hundreds of people to the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. For more on the conditions inside that ...

The film "The Changing Face of Eastern Europe" explores the evolution of Eastern European nations under Soviet influence post-World War II. It details the transition from strict Soviet control to ...

Fast forward to the Soviet era, and Armenia's architecture ... defined this era. But Armenian Brutalism had a twist—while the world saw raw concrete as cold and uninviting, Armenian architects ...

Russian sailors found the Soviet M-49 submarine, which is believed to have sunk on August 16, 1941, having "disappeared without a trace," state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported. An M-63 ...