Druzhba Sanatorium: A Soviet Monument Suspended Between Earth and Sea

archdaily.com · 2026-02-11
Druzhba Sanatorium: A Soviet Monument Suspended Between Earth and Sea

Perched above the cliffs of Crimea, the Druzhba Thermal Sanatorium appears less as a building than as a landed spacecraft. Its circular forms, suspended decks, and spiraling ramps evoke a scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972), where architecture and psychology merge into a single landscape. B