Jun 21
Hotel Amanauz, Dombai, Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia (Caucasus).
A late-1980s Soviet brutalist project designed with that wild honeycomb facade of modular balconies. It was planned as a huge resort hotel (~480 rooms, cinema for 630) and even had a rumored rotating base to follow the sun.
Construction halted mid-project due to foundation cracks and funding collapse as the USSR fell.
It’s stood abandoned ever since - a concrete monument to ambitious dreams that never finished.
Credit: Kerala Student