Zhitnii Rynok
Soviet modernist covered food market under a hanging concrete roof with metal trade-route reliefs.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zhytnii Market in Kyiv's Podil district is about the building itself: a Soviet modernist food hall raised between nineteen seventy-four and nineteen eighty by architects Valentyn Shtolko and Olha Monina. It asks why a market roof was engineered the way it was, and what the designers were trying to protect. Best heard on the upper gallery, looking up at the ceiling.
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