“Khamom” projectПроект «Хамом»

June 28, 200828 июня 2008 г.

Circular ceramic relief above the entrance of the Khamom project in Tashkent
Entrance relief, Tashkent, about 1979. 90 cm across.

The “Khamom” project in Tashkent was a collaboration with the Russian architect Andrey Stanislavovich Kosinski, erected around 1979. The relief above the entrance is 90 cm in diameter. The photograph is monochrome; the relief itself is red and gold. It represents the streets of Tashkent, and buildings designed by Kosinski.

Inside, a dozen plates hung on the walls. The building was demolished during the reconstruction of the capital of Uzbekistan, and the fate of the relief is unknown.

Of the buildings Kosinski designed for the capital, only this one and the Bogdan Khmelnitsky prospect were approved.