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Unlike this place, which Paul of AustinModHouse rightful points out is on BBQ away from a Burning Man exhibit, it will take more than fire (or the fall of the Soviet Union) to bring down this former ministry building in Tbilisi, Georgia. I have a fondness for brutalist bloc architecture. Sadly most of the examples in America lack a grandeur found in Europe and the Russian Bloc, Giesel Library aside.
More pictures and article about the Former Ministry of Highways building shown above.
I instantly thought of the montreal habitat: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/20/habitat-67-montreals-prefab-pixel-city/habitat67/
I thought of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
Stunningly beautiful. Which I would never say about the two other buildings mentioned in the posts above!