Tbilisi apartment house This apartment block on Heroes Saquare.was built in the 1950s. It was the highest building in Tbilisi until the construction of Hotel Iveria in the 1970s. The apartment house was known locally as the ""11 strory...
Tbilisi apartment houses.;probably built in the Khrushchev era, known universally in the USSR as the Khrushchevites because they were shabbily built with low ceilings and poor consturction materials to house as many people as quickly as possible.
""New"" Soviet arcitecture, an apartment complex on the banks of the Mtkvari River.for members of the elite containing both classical and oriental mojpgs as in acropolis like penthouse and windows. Balconies are very much part...
View along river Mtkvari To the left is the Trialeti mountain range. .Soviet built apartment block in the foreground with a number oif churches visible in the city.
New houses and view from atop Mtatsminda Mountain showing Mtkvari River. with apartment blocks and Rustaveli Avenue in the foreground. The city is expanding against Trialeti mountain range.
Another view of the houses and church together. In the Soviet period Metekhi Church was used as a youth theater but returned to the Goergian Orthodox Church after independence in 1991. On the left bank of the river close to the center of town.
Church to the left is not visible, traditionally designed 19th century houses on a cliff above the river Mtkvari. Most of these have now been converted to hotels The bank is solid granite.
