Architectural Musings: Early 1990s Mass Public Housing

Architecture: some fine examples of the early 1990s (carry over Soviet) mass public housing, provided free too somewhere in Moscow.

 

These are what is crazily known in English as large panel system-buildings or by its German name Plattenbau although they were first built in the Soviet Union.

Built in 1994, about 30 years ago.

I love them... much more so than the modern "monolithic" concrete crap.

 And at close quarters

 

 

 

Soapbox photos: Early 1990s Mass Public Housing: Architecture: some fine examples of the early 1990s (carry over Soviet) mass public housing, provided free too somewhere in Moscow.   These ...