«Гараж»

This guide to Garage in Moscow's Gorky Park follows a young Rem Koolhaas, decades before his career took off, stumbling on an abandoned Brezhnev-era restaurant called Vremena Goda. It traces how collector Dasha Zhukova, who co-founded her contemporary art museum in a Constructivist bus garage designed by Konstantin Melnikov, commissioned Koolhaas to return to that same ruin. You'll hear how he chose to wrap the decayed structure in a new skin rather than erase it, and why one crumbling mosaic was left exactly as found. Look for the moss-green tiles and bare brick still showing through inside.