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The towers of Houston's Pennzoil Place rises into the sky, reflecting the adjacent Bank of America Center.
Picture House Ashford. Crazy road layout. Not sure where the pavement ends and the road begins. Extremely confusing.
… 66 Frognal by Colin Lucas is one of the modernist masterpieces hiding in plain sight among gothic atrocities in Hampstead.
Completed in January 1945 using Rubislaw (Aberdeen) granite. Architect Leo Durnin, with “Spirit of the Wind” figure designed by Thomas Huxley-Jones.
Part of the University of Edinburgh's George Square campus.
Left to right:
Main Library. Designed in a brutalist style by architects Spence, Glover and Ferguson and completed in 1967.
Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre (formerly George Square Theatre). Designed by architects Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners and completed in 1970.
Adam Ferguson Building. Designed by architects Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners and completed in 1967.
Like many British cities, starting in the mid-1960s, Newcastle underwent a radical transformation as older buildings were swept away and concrete towers and raised pedestrian walkways took their place. Many of these changes have been linked to T. Dan Smith, the leader of the city council at the time, who was charged with bribery and corruption in 1971 as part of the wider Poulson Affair. The legacy lives on in walkways that end abruptly, and road junctions that were never completed.
This photo shows a boarded-up and vandalized shopping arcade behind the New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle. Access to the shops is either via the concrete walkways that cross the central motorway and the dual carriageway at Durant Street, or via steps from New Bridge Street below.
The photo was taken looking towards the walkways, with the shopping arcade on the right, and the New Bridge Hotel on the left. The black and white image was produced using a channel mixer set to reproduce the characteristics of Ilford Pan F black and white film.
Detall de les xemenies del terrat de l'edifici modernista de La Pedrera (Barcelona), obra de l'arquitecte reusenc Antoni Gaudí i Cornet.
Europe, Spain, Andalucia, Malaga, Centre, High rise facade
An interesting modernist high rise in the centre of Malaga with its colour scheme and the trellised bay windows and parapets (historic reference).
It's number 795 of the Minimalism/explicit graphism album. here.
Completed in January 1945 using Rubislaw (Aberdeen) granite. Architect Leo Durnin, with “Rain” figure designed by Thomas Huxley-Jones.
Next to Liverpool’s art school on the famous Hope Street are these concrete suitcases, executed by John King in 1998. The bronze luggage tags carry the names of the notable individuals and institutions associated with the Merseyside: social reformers, musicians, writers, and conductors. Behind is the distinctive modernist form of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
Interior of the modern Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, consecrated in 1961. It was built alongside the ruins of the original church which was partly destroyed by bombing in 1943.
Modernist Hydraulic Tiles are a type of decorative concrete tile that gained prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly associated with the Modernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau) movement.
Keeling House, a modernist apartment block in Bethnal Green, East London. Designed by Denys Lasdun and completed in 1957.
Modernist house with stained glass in Barcelona
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'Frankfurt Kitchen' designed in 1927 by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, in order to be efficient and hygienic. About 10,000 of these kitchens were installed in Frankfurt apartments.
V&A Storehouse, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney
La Pedrera – Casa Milà
Antoni Gaudí's modernist architecture on Passeig de Gràcia.
UNESCO listed this building as a World Heritage Site in 1984. The last civil work of the modernist architect Antoni Gaudí. The building was designed as a family residence.
- Barcelona, Spain
Info: www.paseodegracia.com/en/guia/la-pedrera/ > barcelonapaseodegracia.com/en/members/la-pedrera-casa-mila/
Detail of decorative mosaic tiling on the former BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, White City.
Designed in a modernist style by architect Graham Dawbarn and opened in 1960. The BBC moved their operations out of building in 2013 and following renovations, it reopened in 2017 as a mixed use development which includes office space, residential apartments, leisure services as well as rertaining three TV production studios.
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When I go on a trip, I like to plan ahead. I'm not that guy who goes on random walks talking photos.
Prior to going to Berlin, Brutalist (or Brutalism) architecture really caught my eye. Did some reading, and oh boy did I have fun exploring the "béton brut (raw concrete)".
Brutalism had its peak during the 50's to the late 70's. Today its considered controversial, because of the rough and hard look. Often seen in sci-fi and dystopian movies.
I also visited some post modernist sites. Pretty sure many of you not gonna like this "stuff".
As always, I only used film and filmcameras during this trip (Mamiya 7ii, Canon P & Minolta P's).
Photos coming soon. Cheers, Jonny
Modernist emblem of the tenement house that was built in 1934 according to the design of Zygmunt Prokesz and Izydor Goldberg. The main entrance is decorated with a cubist bas-relief depicting a Chinese dragon located above. The dragon motif was one of the most popular themes used in the emblems of Krakow's tenement houses, it was often shown alone or as part of a composition with the motif of St. George. At 37 Urzędnicza Street, there is probably the most unusual representation of a dragon that was created in interwar Krakow.
Link span building, Taranaki St wharf. This modernist building was designed by architect Roger Walker and completed in 1969. It was a customs house back when this was a working wharf for trans-Tasman shipping.
A spring view of the John G. Diefenbaker Building in Ottawa, captured from the banks of the Rideau River. Formerly the city’s municipal headquarters, this striking piece of modernist architecture now serves the federal government.
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Une vue de l’édifice John-G.-Diefenbaker à Ottawa, photographiée depuis les berges de la rivière Rideau. Anciennement le siège municipal de la ville, cet exemple frappant d’architecture moderniste sert aujourd'hui au gouvernement fédéral.
[Bilingual texts ENGLISH below]
Golygfa tuag at San Giorgio Maggiore o’r tu fewn i oriel Palas Grassi, lle cewch weld weithiau o gasgliad y Fondazzione Pinault. Mae'r Palas ei hun yn weddnewidiad difyr a modernaidd ar bensaerniaeth palas Fenisaidd. Mae'r arddangosfeydd o waith celfyddyd cyfoes weithiau'n ddifyr ac weithiau'n ddiflas (yn ôl ymwelwyr eraill).
Llydäwr yw François Pinault y casglwr (a lluos-Filionydd). Chwiliwch am y lle ar fapiau Gŵgl gyda'r côd; C8JP+98 (Fenis/Venezia), Yr Eidal (Punta Della Dogana, drws nesaf i'r anhygoel 'Amgueddfa Peggy Guggenheim').
A view towards San Giorgio Maggiore from inside the Grassi Palace gallery which offers changing exhibitions from the Fondazzione Pinault collection (my favourite the day I visited were the Ron Arad giant pucks of solid glass).
The Grassi P. is a subtle modernist makeover of Venetian palace architecture and is of some interest in itself.
The exhibitions are sometimes engaging and sometimes the absolute opposite (to put it weakly) according to others reviews.
The collection is owned and was purchased by billionaire Breton, François Pinault.
Google maps address: C8JP + 98 Venice, Italy (Punta Della Dogana, next door to the unmissable Peggy Guggenheim Museum)