Soviet dreams

[shewhomust]

The Guardian's architecture correspondent writes about the photographs of Frédéric Chaubin who bought an old book of photographs of Soviet architecture, and fell in love. Now he has published his own book of some of the concrete dream palaces of the Soviet era. They have outlived their original purpose, but linger, massive, implausible, like so many wrecked spaceships ( and one ocean-going liner). There's a slideshow, too.