Video: Visiting a fairy tale: the most unusual entrance in the world is in Kiev
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The entrances of Soviet houses are usually faceless and similar to one another, like these typical houses themselves. They are gray, dreary, and often very dirty. But it turns out that only desire and imagination are enough to turn the entrance of a serial high-rise building into a real fairy tale.
In Kiev, on the Troeshchina residential area, there is an ordinary entrance of an ordinary multi-storey building. But this entrance has a completely unusual floor. Getting on it, you get the impression that you are in a fairy tale - everything around looks so unreal.
And an ordinary Kiev artist who lives in an apartment on this floor turned her living area into this fairy tale. She got tired of living in Soviet despondency and dullness, and she decided to turn into a holiday of colors and shapes that space where before there was nothing to catch the eye.
But it took her about five years to create this splendor. By the way, people living in apartments on this floor did not immediately get inspired by the ideas of their neighbor, they even tried to break her work. But now we got used to it. Apparently, they realized that living in a colored world is much better than in black and white.
As a result, the usual floor of an ordinary entrance of an ordinary Soviet-built high-rise building in a remote microdistrict of a metropolis turned into a kind of scenery from the movie "Alice in Wonderland". The only thing missing is a smoking caterpillar, a rabbit in a tuxedo and a crazy Hatter with the face of John Depp. I wonder if director Tim Burton would have liked this creation?
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