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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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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Lamster is a writer on the arts and culture. He is Associate American Editor of The Architectural Review, and is currently at work on his third book, a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson. Follow: @marklamster.More Bio >>
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05.13.13: The Tower that Beer Built04.23.13: The Bush Library
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03.19.13: Berlin: Then and Now
03.11.13: The Dallas Way
03.05.13: Inventing the Modern Library
02.20.13: Orange City
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01.28.13: Grand Central Turns 100
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BOOKS BY Mark Lamster
Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's GamePublicAffairs, 2006
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens Nan A. Talese, 2009
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