Two years into Russia's full-scale invasion, architecture and design studios in Ukraine are adapting to support the war effort while also ensuring they stay in business.
Casualties in the war now number around 500,000, including more than 10,000 civilian deaths.
With Saturday marking two years since Russia's troops crossed the Ukraine border, Dezeen spoke to architecture and design studios in the country about how they are coping amid the ongoing conflict.
"Our work is what keeps us going"
"Our studio is continuing to operate, but of course, not at the same pace as before the war and not at such volumes," said Svetlana Pashenko, co-founder of A Pashenko Architects.
"For us, work became not only a way to make ends meet and support our staff financially but a kind of therapy ? an opportunity to escape from the realities of war." In some cases, necessity has proven the mother of invention.
"Today, we are just doing what we can do ? and sometimes what we can't do, too," said Anna Dobrova, founder of architecture and urbanism non-profit Metalab.
"We don't like this phrase, but now is indeed a time of great challenges and great opportunities. We are searching for ways to realise them."
Metalab has developed a quick-to-assemble modular bed to help furnish homes created through its Co-Haty project. Photo by Oleksandr Demianiv (also top)
Like many studios in Ukraine, Metalab is now primarily focused on war-related projects.
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