Uploaded on 2017-03-19 by Maria Shuklina

It’s difficult to recognize local materials in Moscow, because locality can be understand in two ways as I think. At first it can represent materials, which were made not far from place of construction. So on this pic we can see concrete, glass and steel in new architecture. It could been made in Moscow district. But globalization process in the case could be, if foreign company have a plant near Moscow but produce these materials by their technology from local resources. But I think a lot of interior materials are imported, like floor materials from Netherlands, Italian tile, etc. At second, the meaning of locality can represent materials which were made on a territory of this country, but Russia is too big, so materials produced in Ural region can cost more than foreign materials. Anyway it the meaning of «native» materials we can see in materials of old buildings of Stalin period. In this Soviet period there wasn’t any import materials.