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Former General San Martín power plant, by José Molinari (1932).

It was shut down and abandoned in 1988. After years of neglect, restoration works began in 2002 on several sections of the complex, converting them into museum spaces, but many areas are still in a state of disrepair.

Ingeniero White - Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

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Right near to the place where Napoleon fought the Battle of Marengo in 1800 - deafeating the Austrians and expelling them from North-Western Italy - there is an old sugar mill, built in 1900 and abandoned in the 1980s.

There were plans to convert the buildings commercially, but the discovery of large amounts of heavy pollutants in the soil, caused by the nearby Solvay factory, and the resulting huge cleanup costs stopped everything.

These photos are from 2010, the sugar factory is still there. The bright blue on the wall of one photo is due to the asbestos removal works.

Spinetta Marengo, Italy.

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Heiligkreuzkirche (Holy Cross Church), by Walter Förderer (1961).

Chur, Switzerland.

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Some classical places in Mantova (Mantua), Italy.

Can you name them all?

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Voroneț Monastery, built in 1488.

Voroneț, Romania.

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Mesi Bridge, built in 18th by order of Kara Mahmud Bushati, local Ottoman pasha.

Mes, Albania.

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The 48 meters high Kalyan Minaret (1127) in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

In 1220, roughly one hundred years after the construction, Mongol troops conquered the city. While the rest of Bukhara was tragically sacked and destroyed, Genghis Khan was so impressed and amazed by the sheer beauty and scale of this minaret that he ordered it to be saved.

We are going to see the Kalyan Minaret too in the forthcoming tour in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, join us!

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Tower of Shadows, by Le Corbusier (1957).

Chandigarh, India.

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Guardian Building, former Union Trust Building, by Wirt Clinton Rowland (1928-1929).

Detroit, Michigan - USA.

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One of the places we will visit together in the forthcoming tour is the incredible Shah-i-Zinda necropolis. Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

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Former psychiatric hospital of Quarto, built in 1892 and abandoned in 1999. There have been many talks about renovations plans, even very recently, but at the moment nothing has been decided yet.

Genoa, Italy.

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Dynamo Sport Palace, by E. G. Rozanov, E. K. Chivikov, V. V. Milashevsky and I. Mikhalev (1980).

Moscow, Russia.

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From August 27th to September 6th, I am heading back to Central Asia for a new 11-day trip hunting down architecture (and much more) through Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, organized together with Soviet Tours.

The journey starts in Tashkent, two days among Soviet modernist masterpieces, kaleidoscopic mosaics, legendary metro stations, plus the giant solar furnace in Parkent. Then southwest by train to Bukhara, one of the great Silk Road cities, for its ancient marvels such as the Po-i-Kalyan complex (with the minaret that impressed even Genghis Khan) and the Ark, before moving on to Samarkand to see other amazing symbols of Timurid grandeur, like the Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, the Registan and the Gur-e-Amir.

We will then cross the border into Tajikistan, enjoying the psychedelic mosaics of Panjakent, the turquoise lakes and mountain villages of the Fann Mountains, before heading north towards the huge Lenin statue atop the dam of Istaravshan, then on to the vibrant Khujand with its Soviet architecture and lively bazaar.

I've been to the region to document architecture for my book Soviet Asia and went back for another tour in 2023. Trust me, we had a lot of fun! We will explore these places together, supported by very skilled local guides, and I'll also be giving evening talks on architecture and photography.

Join us! More info at the link in the comments.

Tashkent's metro system was planned and built during Soviet times (as the train used), opening in 1977. It's a great way both to move across the big Uzbek capital city and to travel in time, across multiple amazing metro stations.

Join us in the tour to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, more info here: soviettours.com/soviet-asia-tour

1. Kosmonavtlar metro station, by S. Sutyagin, S. Sokolov, A. Zokirov and A. Brasovsky (1984).

2. Mustaqilliq Maidoni metro station, by L. Adamov, A. Adylova, S. Adylov and L. Popov (1977).

3. Gafur Gurom metro station, by A. Tabibov and F. Muzaffarov (1989).

4. Alisher Navoiy metro station, by V. Makhmudov and Y. Mansurov (1984).

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, by Marcel Breuer (1965-1968). The white structures at the bottom were added by Martha Schwartz in 1990.

As higlighted by SOSBrutalism, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that was housed there officially relocated elsewhere, and the fate of the building is uncertain (also considering the context created by the "architectural opinions" of the orange disgrace).

Washington D.C., USA.