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Australia National University
Architects: Eggleston, Macdonald and Secomb (1967)
Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
Raised Faculty Building, University of Cambridge. Nothing like a bit of Brutalist architecture in black and white after the joy of colour in the recent uploads.
New City Hall (1965)
This image is part of my Brutalist Toronto project. Brutalism is a style of architecture, popular from late 1950s to the early 1970s, which emphasized "heavy, monumental, stark concrete forms and raw surfaces" - Dictionary of Architecture and Construction
BRUTALISM IN BOSTON: where concrete becomes character.
From stark geometries to sculptural overhangs, these architectural forms don’t just occupy space—they challenge it.
Swipe to see the corduroy-textured columns that ripple like fabric frozen in stone. A tactile rhythm carved into the city’s rawest corners.
residential building, quartiere stadio, lecce
southern italy, hdr 2008
Le palazzine sono Illuminate dai riflettori dello Stadio Via del Mare, accesi in occasione del match di serie B Lecce-Rimini (2-0), casualmente si possono distinguere in questa ripresa dalla curva qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKSd8Jakiw. Il riflesso sulla base è la cappotta della Opel Corsa su cui era appoggiata la fotocamera.
Brutalist architecthure personified here in Scarborough with Pavilion House, Valley Bridge Road.
In the past it has been nominated by locals as the most hated building in the Town 'Resembling a concrete fortress and a symbol of the Towns decline'.
It houses offices and a court.
Photographed at a nearly abandoned mall in Espoo, Finland, thinking of Aki Kaurismäki's recent movie Fallen Leaves which I have not seen yet. Both this mall and Kaurismäki's movies take you a few decades back in time.
Espoo, Finland 2023.
Minolta Hi-Matic E
Foma Fomapan 400 shot at ISO 500
Compard R09 One Shot 1+100 90 min semi-stand, 20°C
5 min presoak
Agitation 1st 90 seconds + 15 s at 30 and 60 min.
The University of East Anglia's architecturally remarkable grade II-listed Ziggurats, Norfolk and Suffolk Terrace, designed by Denys Lasdun in the early 1960s. Internally updated, they provide on campus student accommodation.
www.uea.ac.uk/stud/undergraduate/accommodation/options/st...
Lasdun first proposed this style of accommodation for Cambridge. He intended that a student should be able to get from bed to a class in five minutes.
"The rear of the blocks is concealed below the walkways, with car parking and bicycle racks. To the front, the stepped section made possible rooms that have a high part facing the countryside and a low part to the rear, making the stairs slightly less steep, with only 12 steps between each floor, but the inner parts of the rooms consequently very low."
Elain Harwood, 4 January 2010, in bdonline www.bdonline.co.uk/revisiting-denys-lasdun%E2%80%99s-uea/...
Grade II listed: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1390647
The cover for the Streets' album Computers and Blues, released in February 2011, features a Ziggurat. news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_places/arts_an...
As used here (without asking): www.themodernhouse.com/journal/my-favourite-building-the-...
I took this in 2017. Apparently its the early 70's built former HQ of the Yorkshire Building Society. Its located in Bradford. I have to say it is quite possibly the ugliest thing I have ever seen in my life. It is a monstrous carbuncle of such breathtaking nastiness I really couldn't believe what I was seeing and felt obliged to take a picture. Its called 'High Point'. A name that must surely have been intended as a joke.
My son told me today that he thought it had been demolished which cheered me up enormously and encouraged me to look out this picture. However the only record I can find of any demolition of a modern building in Bradford is of another example of quite recent tat, so it seems this place is still there. Probably because it is apparently riddled with asbestos.....
Bradford is not a pretty city. However it has a rugged grandeur due to plenty of fine stone Victorian buildings. What on earth were they thinking of when they dumped here something that looks like a Siberian nuclear power station or an Oklahoma grain silo?
My God did someone actually DESIGN this? If so, what drugs were they on?
Stagecoach in South Wales's Cwmbran depot had Stagecoach West Northern Counties Palatine-bodied Volvo Olympian 16099 on loan between late April and late July this year. This was to cover for similar 16444 (N344 HGK) which was defective, and to provide a high seating capacity vehicle for the remainder of the academic year.
16099 was new to Selkent with the usual dual-door configuration, though she was converted to single-door, which is evident by the smaller second window bay, when transferred to the provinces in 2003, like many other London fleet Olympians.
This June shot is of her leaving the southern exit of Newport Bus Station, returning light to Cwmbran depot after a trip from Underwood on Service 64.
Significantly, Newport Bus Station is due to be closed for major re-development in the next few weeks. I doubt though if the brutal architecture of the closed multi-storey car park overlooking it will be missed.
16099 is now back in Swindon, living out her final years for Stagecoach West.
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