Contracts 3-100 Contrasts. Have you remembered phrase from famous soviet film "New York is (Istambul) is the city of contrasts"? For me the city of contrasts is Moscow. We can have eternity argue about advantages and disadvantages this city, but now I would tell you about architecture. Style of Barcelona - modern, Prague - gotic, Rome - antique (sure, I'm talking about city center) But Moscow is a mix of almost all architectures styles. We have a midieval fort, Gothic church, classic European style, neo Russian style, Stalin's empire style, contemporary style etc. From one point of view you can see almost all history of Moscow.