Changing the Face Competition: Rossiya's Flourish

This is a spectacular entry for the Changing the Face Competition 2011, a yearly event promoted by DuPont that generates a brainstorm around different cities' "emotional" buildings.

Gijo Paul George and Hend Almatrouk proposed a concept that combines two faces of the Pushkinky (formerly Rossiya) Cinema in Moscow. The contrast between past and present is strong and represented with rigid geometrical shapes for the disciplined and puritan communist rule and with alluring and flamboyant lines for today's consumerism and hedonism.

It is an architectural reflection on how the city, and by extension the Russian film production, has evolved through time. We were dazzled by the design, check out some more images.