Constructor matryoshka Blokoshka for connoisseurs of sleeping areas

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Sleeping areas of large cities, as a rule, cause polar feelings - from shudder to tenderness and admiration. While some are outraged by the "hipster" interest in the late Soviet architecture, others are thoughtfully looking at the artifacts of the era that have grown over the country as huge typical mycelium. This legacy still has to be handled carefully and avoiding class tourism: in other words, a resident of the Central District should think twice before telling the native Zyablikov that it is a miracle as well because of its symmetry and structure.

Nevertheless, the love of block building is sweeping across the planet: it is also glorified by the Polish-Spanish design bureau Zupagrafika, who invented a whole series of paper construction houses. In their catalog there are painfully recognizable “panels” of Poznan and Warsaw, brutal London skyscrapers of the 60-70s (including the model of the legendary Barbican district) or the Katowice Central Station demolished in 2011. Now the bureau has released the “Blockaska” - four bright panel towers hailing from Moscow, East Berlin, Warsaw and Prague. All of them are made of recycled cardboard, do not require scissors and glue for assembly, fold into a "matryoshka", come with a brochure about the history of architecture and cost only 10 euros. Love.