
July 7, 2009
Nazdorovye!
Barack Obama is in Moscow hitting the reset button on Russian-American relations. We applaud the effort and suggest there would be no better place for him to toast this new direction with misters Medvedev and Putin than Sasha Brodsky’s Vodka Drinking Pavilion, just outside the city. It’s built entirely of repurposed windows from a demolished 19th century factory building. A few more pictures below, with the architect himself. One of the most beautiful spaces in the world.
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