Russian aggression caused drastic damage to Ukrainian cities. Some, like Mariupol, were leveled to the ground, with President Zelenskyy claiming that 95% of the city is destroyed. Others, like Kharkiv, are also severely devastated: Russian...
After the collapse and doom of the 1990s, Ukrainian villages are starting to revive. In many ways, this is due to the decentralization reform of 2015-2020 which brought financial resources and new life to rural areas. Decentralization...
Restoration plan Minister Tkachenko and other members of the team have preliminarily assessed the damage and outlined the restoration plans. The first task is to cover all broken windows so that moisture does not get inside. Further work...
In its long history, Ukraine went through periods of poverty and glory, repressions and renaissance, stagnation and battle. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Architecture is a project called to observe how all this is captured in the...
Guess Line Architects, an innovative architectural bureau in Lviv, recently won the prestigious international competition eVolo Skyscraper Competition, an annual architectural contest to design futuristic skyscrapers. The competition has...
The visuals — frightening, ugly, yet still somehow charming monolith apartment blocks — are the key elements of Enter Through the Balcony. Though they may initially appear identical on the outside, filmmaker Roman...
Once, Ukrainian film writer Oleksandr Dovzhenko visited Nova Kakhovka to create the script for his future film, “A Poem About the Sea” (1958). He was stunned by how grey and gloomy the buildings looked. It was his...
Chynadiyovo Castle The Saint Miklós (Saint Nicholas) Castle in Chynadiyovo, Mukachevo raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, has a lasting legacy — its palisades dared to challenge fate and survived against all odds. Lost among the majesty...
When Nikita Khrushchev, the ruler of the USSR in the 1950’s visited France, he had no idea that the visit would trigger the largest social construction era in the USSR. But that’s exactly what happened. According to one...
Mykola Iakovyna, the Honorary President of Ukraine’s National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), has said that UNESCO has full power to recognize which man-made and natural objects have universal...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
