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Free wine for every tourist!
As everyone knows in Tbilissi, President Saakashvili has always commissioned major public art pieces all by himself, choosing the artist, the location, the symbols. The best public art works are participatory, that is well known. So here is the best …
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Oversized Symbol III
The new house of the president: a little gem of totalitarian architecture that popped out of the ground two years ago. Reminiscent of some the palaces built by the Turkmenbashi, the late president of Turkmenistan.…
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Roads Ministry Building
Quite an astonishing building!
GeoAIR had an exhibition there last year “Frozen Moments, Architecture Speaks Back”.
Designed in the 1970s by George Chakhava, who was both the lead architect and the client for the project, the building pioneered the … -
Oversized symbol 2
So here comes a classic oversized symbol: bare-breasted woman as homeland/war/freedom. But here is the surprise: under her heel the local tramp hides his bottles. What kind of a metaphore is that now?…
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Always Ultra
Another oversized symbol. The nickname Always Ultra was given to this new pedestrian bridge across the river Mtkvari (you guessed it) because of its resemblance to a well-known sanitary pad. Tbilissians don’t like the bridge because of its bombastic modernity …
