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????????????Now we are on Boosty. https://boosty.to/anotherspb - additional materials, including maps-routes to excursion places! And of course - new episodes: ahead of schedule, without advertising and censorship. Help in developing the channel: 5336 6902 9955 4354 (cbp) There is a house in St. Petersburg. A ship-house, an iron-house, a train-house and even a wall-house... The house on Sadovaya Street has earned all these epithets thanks to its shape. From some angles, it seems to the viewer that the building is absolutely flat, in which there is simply not enough space for a full-fledged room! Optical illusion is a favorite technique of architects, starting from ancient times. But why did the architect Vasily Shaub make this particular apartment building on the outskirts of Kolomna in St. Petersburg like this? A room tour of a unique apartment - in the narrowest place of the wall-house. 0:00 – a train house, a wall house, a ship house, an iron house… 0:51 – the story of the house on Sadovaya 2:39 – is this the only flat house in St. Petersburg? 3:48 – visiting a communal apartment in a wall house 4:43 – what does New York have to do with it? 5:12 – life in a “flat” apartment: pros and cons 7:30 – the wider, the richer 8:04 – ghosts and secret rooms of the wall house 9:18 – a machine gun from the window 10:18 – what does the Parthenon have to do with it? The history of optical illusions in architecture 11:25 – African, blockade survivor and proletariat 12:15 – how city authorities “forgot” about the value of an architectural masterpiece ***************** DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE and click the bell to be the first to know about new videos about the seamy side of St. Petersburg and other cities around the world! More photos and info – in our telegram - https://t.me/another_spb ***************** The episode uses a fragment of the cult concert of DDT with the program “Black Dog Petersburg”, 1992 #anotherpetersburg #architecture #roomtour