Why it matters that Zelenskyy stood before a building by 'the Gaudi of Ukraine' on social media
In 1903, an architect by the name of Vladislav Gorodetsky put the finishing touches on a luxurious apartment building in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. To say that the building is unusual would be a vast understatement.
Gorodetsky — alternately known in English as Wladyslaw Horodecki — was a Polish-born architect dubbed "the Gaudi of Ukraine." His namesake building fuses Beaux-Arts and Art Nouveau styles with a roofline and facade bearing a truly bizarre menagerie of grotesqueries: Rows of frogs patrol the roofline, an elephant bulges from the building's skin, heads of deer and
