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Daily Pic:  In the 1960s, architects learned to use concrete like no one since the Romans. And all around the world, their concrete  creations have been allowed to rot – as per this image of the once-lovely and popular “Seasons of the Year” restaurant in Gorky Park in Moscow. Yet that 1968 structure is now set to have a future as well as a past.  Today in Moscow, Dasha Zhukova, founder of the city’s famous Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, is announcing detailed plans for the renovation of the old park pavillion, under the guiding hand of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture.  Read a much longer version of this post on the Daily Pic page of TheDailyBeast.com.

Apr 27

Daily Pic:  In the 1960s, architects learned to use concrete like no one since the Romans. And all around the world, their concrete  creations have been allowed to rot – as per this image of the once-lovely and popular “Seasons of the Year” restaurant in Gorky Park in Moscow. Yet that 1968 structure is now set to have a future as well as a past.  Today in Moscow, Dasha Zhukova, founder of the city’s famous Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, is announcing detailed plans for the renovation of the old park pavillion, under the guiding hand of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan ArchitectureRead a much longer version of this post on the Daily Pic page of TheDailyBeast.com.


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