These strange little shelters are brimming with architectural styles thats unlike anything you have ever seen anywhere else.

There are pyramids and arches, domes and vaults and other improbable structures.

Indeed, it was a government stipulation that they should be beautiful and reflect a local aesthetic.

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This allowed architects to flex their creativity.

People should get pleasure out of them.

We decided they should be monumental art in space, he toldThe Guardian.

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Zurab Tsereteli is now a celebrated Moscow-based artist and president of the Russian Academy of Arts.

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