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AGP / Hans Heidenreich / Michael Polensky / Reinhard Vogel / Helmut Zeumer: Familienzentrum, Berlin, Deutschland, 1973–1975
Alberto Gatti: IACP Housing in Tor Sapienza, Roma 1970–79
Former service building in the courtyard for shops and community facilities, later “misused” as living space. Vacated for renovation years ago and increasingly falling into disrepair, an inhabitant of the block told me.
Balboa Park BART station
San Francisco
"Expressionist architecture" and also Brutalism
architecture: Corlett & Spackman
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This is the Markel Building at 5310 Markel Rd, Richmond, VA.
It opened in 1965 as the headquarters for The Markel Group, and it's architecture resembles a baked potato wrapped in aluminum foil. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The Catholic parish church of the Resurrection of Christ was built between 1964 and 1970 according to plans by the architect Gottfried Böhm in the Lindenthal district of Cologne. The two architects Wilhelm Jungherz and Klaus Micheel were also involved in the design.
The church building illustrates to a large extent the idea of architecture as sculpture.
The church is excellently integrated into the urban planning. It serves as a vanishing point for the Lindenthal Canal, which is lined with avenues. At the end of the canal, wide staircases form squares, which are bordered on the sides by community buildings. Finally, the church rises together with the parish tower.
The staggered height development with projections and recesses and beveled edges creates a sculptural character. At the north-west corner, the open spiral staircase emphasizes the tower. The plastic effect is reinforced by the calculated use of the material colors, the change from reddish brickwork to light exposed concrete surfaces.
The floor plan is asymmetrical and polygonal. The angles and niches resulting from this in the outline are assigned liturgical tasks. Together with the different room heights and the reduced incidence of light, the room is given liveliness. The building appears as a walk-in sculpture. The windows, also designed by Böhm, are predominantly red-glazed. Together with the reddish masonry, they reinforce the cave-like atmosphere.
Photography & retouching by Matthias Dengler
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AGP / Hans Heidenreich / Michael Polensky / Reinhard Vogel / Helmut Zeumer: Familienzentrum, Berlin, Deutschland, 1973–1975
AGP / Hans Heidenreich / Michael Polensky / Reinhard Vogel / Helmut Zeumer: Familienzentrum, Berlin, Deutschland, 1973–1975
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...
This image appeared with prior permission in a BBC article:
AGP / Hans Heidenreich / Michael Polensky / Reinhard Vogel / Helmut Zeumer: Familienzentrum, Berlin, Deutschland, 1973–1975