Colección del Museo Ruso / Málaga
Reinforced-concrete tobacco factory pavilions from the nineteen twenties now hung with loaned Russian masterworks.
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This guide to the Colección del Museo Ruso in Málaga starts with a puzzle: why did this tobacco factory sit silent for five years after its walls went up in 1927? Built almost entirely from reinforced concrete, one of the first Spanish buildings to use it at that scale, it didn't start production until 1932, while engineers tested whether the new material could be trusted with machinery and workers. Eleven separate pavilions once stood finished on what had been an orchard called the Huerta de San Rafael.
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