Clementine Cecil is a journalist and co-founder of MAPS, the Moscow Architectural Preservation Society
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Published in: oDRGreed, corruption and impotence: Samara battles for its architecture
A city with a grand architectural heritage, Samara is today under threat, pincered by the greed of corrupt...
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Published in: oDRThe house that Melnikov built
Moscow’s superb legacy of Constructivist architecture has suffered since Neo-Classicism became the official style in...
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Published in: oDRMayor Luzhkov and the reconstruction of Moscow
On 5th May the Moscow authorities approved a new General Plan described by its critics as “the death-knell” for the...
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Published in: oDRStyle over kitsch: the four lives of David Sarkisyan
Russia has lost a great dissident campaigner for Moscow’s built heritage with the death of David Sarkisyan, museum...