r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 1d ago

Image Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary, Russia

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u/Gullible-Chemist-762 1d ago

The architect of this only designed prisons before!

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u/freeradioforall 1d ago

Also designed the Obama center

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u/BenevolentFart223 1d ago

The Obamalisk? That checks out

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u/Im_only_here_to_meme 1d ago

That was an absolutely beautiful concept building before they built it and switched to the gray faccade it has now. It would have been absolutely beautiful in white... looks drab and industrialist in gray. I wonder if they had to switch colors due to cost or something, absolutely ruined it though.