Dream, Bike & Work

Sol Friedman House (also known as "Toyhill"),

Pleasantville, New York, United States,

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.

Kitasenzoku Apartments, Ota, Japan - Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects

© Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko_DACS 2018

“Candy rock highway” by | Ryan Resatka