The main hall was designed to seat over 20,000 people.
Conceived in 1922 and formalized in the early 1930s, the palace was designed to symbolize the "victory of socialism". Its scale was unprecedented: palace of soviets
Visualizing the unfinished "Palace of The Soviets" : r/evilbuildings The main hall was designed to seat over 20,000 people
The (Russian: Dvorets Sovetov ) was a colossal, unrealized architectural project meant to serve as the administrative center and congress hall for the Soviet government in Moscow. Designed by architect Boris Iofan , it was intended to be the world's tallest building, reaching a height of 416 meters (1,365 feet) and topped by a massive 100-meter statue of Vladimir Lenin. Vision and Scale Designed by architect Boris Iofan , it was
Its internal volume would have surpassed the combined volumes of the six tallest American skyscrapers at the time.