Where Architecture Remembers Who Lived There Before: Muse Residences doesn’t recreate an artists’ district. It

There are parts of a city that hold onto a certain feeling long after the people who shaped them have gone. Verkhnaya Maslovka is one of those places. For decades, it became an informal home for Soviet painters, sculptors and graphic artists, a street where studio life and domestic life blended into one. It was not planned that way, and that is exactly why it worked. The identity of the place came from how people lived there, not how it was designed.