British Brutalist... ... (Explored)
'Brutalist' applies to raw concrete, functional and sharply geometric architecture of the 1950s onwards.
The Ziggurats of the University of East Anglia are a prime example. Here they are seen here through a painted steel sculpture echoing their forms - “Proximity”, 2006 by Ian Tyson.
The distant Ziggurats are named for their resemblance to Sumerian and Babylonian pyramidal religious structures. They are student apartments designed by Denys Lasdon for the then new ‘plate glass’ university and completed in 1968.
Joined square pyramidal towers, stacked apartments, bare concrete, protruding foyers, high walkway connections. Grade II listed, much admired and set into the extensive campus grassland.
British Brutalist... ... (Explored)
'Brutalist' applies to raw concrete, functional and sharply geometric architecture of the 1950s onwards.
The Ziggurats of the University of East Anglia are a prime example. Here they are seen here through a painted steel sculpture echoing their forms - “Proximity”, 2006 by Ian Tyson.
The distant Ziggurats are named for their resemblance to Sumerian and Babylonian pyramidal religious structures. They are student apartments designed by Denys Lasdon for the then new ‘plate glass’ university and completed in 1968.
Joined square pyramidal towers, stacked apartments, bare concrete, protruding foyers, high walkway connections. Grade II listed, much admired and set into the extensive campus grassland.