Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces. Built in two years to mark 75 years since WWII, with 5000 people working on it, including 1000 artists

Comments

1. mightofmany says

   It’s also made with tanks of German forces and has Hitler’s cap as a showpiece.

2. archineering says

   What’s the floor made out of?

3. paynd says

   So warhammer like!

4. LeroyoJenkins says

   Feels like the McMansion of cathedrals!

   Architect: "And what style would you like it? Classical, baroque, gothic, steampunk, cyberpunk?"

   Vladimir: "Yes."

5. Jhe90 says

   Least one set of steps are made from melted German tanks and guns.

   To enter you walk over defeated enemy warmachine and weapons.

   It’s rather symbolic.

6. MAN-99 says

   Weird flex, but ok

7. withonen says

   Well you certainly couldn’t accuse it of being understated.

8. OgodHOWdisGEThere says

   I super dont care about this pile of shit. Everything about it is banal and stupid. It is not a place of worship, or of the teachings of jesus, or of liberty.

   It is a temple to Vladmir Putin’s Russian state and nothing else, hijacking the orthodox aesthetic, and mythologising actual history. This is fascist behaviour.

   Architecture is almost always a reflection of the creator’s ideology. What you see here is the architecture of tin pot despotism.