Stalinallee (previously Große Frankfurter Straße) was built in Friedrichshain in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a prestige project; the architecture of its 'workers' palaces' is strongly reminiscent of the ostentatious Soviet-era Moscow boulevards and is sometimes mockinlgy described as Zuckerbäckerstil ('wedding cake style').
One of these was to more closely reflect Soviet architecture, which resulted in the majority of new buildings blending into one another.
While some residents regard it as a unique feature of the town, it has been criticized for its Soviet-style architecture.
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Constructed between 1934 and 1938 based on plans by Alexey Shchusev, it is an example of Stalin's Empire style.
These three stations demonstrated a change of design priorities straying away from Stalinist architecture to the new minimalism centipede designs supported under Nikita Khrushchev's leadership.