Activists have had enough of historic buildings neglect

Activists gather to block construction equipment in front of the historic Soviet modernist building Flowers of Ukraine in Kyiv on July 12, 2021. The developer, which already demolished part of the atrium, wants to knock it down and raise an office building in its stead. Flowers of Ukraine is emblematic of Kyiv’s other historically valuable buildings, most of which are private property and have no protection from developers.

On July 12, Dmytro Soloviov spent all night at the Soviet modernist building “Kvity Ukrainy,” (“Flowers of Ukraine”) in Kyiv. It wasn’t a party, nor a nighttime adventure. Soloviov was there to protect it from being demolished by a real-estate developer.

“This building has historical, cultural, and architectural value, it is a bright representation of modernist architecture,” Soloviov told the Kyiv Post. “But only in Ukraine is modernist architecture actively destroyed,” he said.

Source: www.kyivpost.com

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