Druzhba Sanatorium inside thermal pool.(Yalta, Crimea)

Druzhba Sanatorium is built in a place which will not find many equals in the world. It is highly undesirable for such places to use boiler houses, polluting the environment with their waste. The idea of a thermal pump that transforms a lowtemperature heat into high-temperature energy source has been known for a long time, but never in implementation as part of a large Soviet construction.

The thermal pump (TP), created together with

the specialists of the VNIPI All-Russia Institute of Research and Engineering , is a refrigerator in reverse, which consists of three basic elements: evaporator, compressor and condenser. Sea water is supplied into the evaporator TP, gives off heat, cooling down by 2-4° C and returns back to sea. Cold water is supplied through the condenser TP, heated in it and is used for heating. During the summer, TP also produces cooling air.

The conditions for building a thermal pump station in this project were successfully obtained: the necessity of building a sea water barrier, an expensive and complex creation, for the swimming pools; the necessity of building a cooling station for pension house air conditioning systems; and building a central heating point. Swimming pools in health centers on sea water have a flow-through design and use a large amount of heat (25-30% of heat consumption).

arch : Igor Vasilevsky 1978

Kecskemét Housing Factory complex, 1978. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

Victoria Pier, Colwyn Bay, North Wales.

First Pavilion 1900-1922

Gyula Castle, 1978. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

beograd 2018

Glass blowers, 1978. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

ÉGSZI (Institute for the Organization of Construction Economy) headquarters, Csalogány Street, Budapest, 1978. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) — Arkhitekton "Gotha 2" [plaster model, 1923/1924]

Motel Xenia ,Heracleion, Crete,Greece 1972

arch: Aris Konstantinidis

sculpture : C. Loukopoulos

Government Service Center (1962-71) in Boston, MA, USA, by Paul Rudolph

(via Eight-String Basses | Vintage Guitar® magazine)

Ashington House, Bethnal Green

Another example of London brutalism. The quirky and somewhat crazy Ashington House was designed by Noel Moffett for the then Greater London Council in the early 1970s

2008-07-21

Glitch Poem

Barber shop, Havana, 1978. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.