Gonder Platz lives on in these gems of socialist modernism.

Hard up for riverside redevelopment ideas? Are you the next Mainland Properties? Look no further than this photographic record of socialist modernism in the former Bloc (image above is from the web site). Note my use of Gonder Platz in an ironic sense.

PHOTOS: The Stark Communist Architecture Of Eastern Europe

From Tblisi to St. Petersburg.

Slovenian professor Roman Bezjak spent the last five years traveling around Eastern Europe, seeking out examples of socialist modernism in architecture.

The resulting collection of images, which includes hotels, shops, and public buildings, has been compiled in a book called Socialist Modernism and is the subject of an exhibit at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.

He's been kind enough to share some of the images with us.