🌅 Embankment by the Sea Passenger Terminal

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The open Gulf of Finland

The Soviet Modernist building was built in 1973–1983 to a design by Vitaly Sokhin and his colleagues.
The walls are clad with panels shaped like sails, and the 78-metre spire carries a little ship.
Sokhin travelled round the ports of Europe and concluded that “nowhere in the world are sea terminals built” — the building type had to be invented.
The sails were criticised as expensive decoration, but the authors defended them, making them light, with an aluminium coating.

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