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Pilgrimage Church of Mary (Gottfried Böhm, 1963-1972). Approach up the road, with the mountain-top roof of the church poking up over the trees. See fumbling introductory comments here.
boston, massachusetts
fall 1975
gala event, boston city hall
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Once described by Prince Charles as 'like a nuclear power station', the fantastic (in my opinion) layered concrete National Theatre.
Designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, and completed in 1976, the Grade II* listed site is probably London's best known Brutalist building.
Two of the ugliest buildings in America reside in Portland. brutalism architecture is only good as a canvas for graffiti.
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Having participated in the Photo24 Challenge recently, myself & Tim Scott decided another trip into London would be a great idea. This time I only took my little Sony RX100 mk3 & iPhone with me as the thought of carrying my Canon 5d mk4 & associated lenses in 30 degree heat for the day was just too much. Ultimately, this was the right decision & whilst at times the image quality & ability to get certain shots that the Canon would have given me proved frustrating the small bag & weight far outweighed this. We arrived in London at 10.15am & headed straight to The Barbican for some brutal architecture shots, then made our way across London taking in various sites along the way, ending up in Brick Lane for a curry at 7.30pm.
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...
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Exterior view. The walkway walls are not curved, this is an artifact of it being a 180 degree panorama. The NGA building is on the left. Traffic noise and the Dept of Environment, Water and Heritage building on the right side of this, out of view.
"Within without" is what Turrell has called this excellent installation piece / sculpture / thingo. I only discovered it by accident the other day, it's not yet been opened but it's a wonderful place, destined to become a notable piece of Canberra.
They seem to have been working on the National Gallery (NGA) extensions for so long I'd forgotten that they might ever finish. And as I pass by most days it didn't enter my head we'd get something as interesting as this in place of the old carpark. (Apparently the new galleries are also stunning so looking forward to seeing them when they open -- almost as much as seeing clear roads with no machinery or glacial speed limits).
The blurbs say Turrell works with light and it's obviously true, but also it's a very neat reflection of Canberra, at least Canberra icons. Look at this from outside and you see Parliament house (built under a grassy hill), Anzac Parade (colours and perspective) and the War Memorial (big grey dome, not visible here). Brutal architecture sometimes done well, angles, water features, native veg and lawns ... it's all here, so very Canberra.
Inside is wondrous for contemplative folk. It has a square view of the sky from outside the dome and a round more restricted view of a sky portion from the inside. When inside the dome you sit on heated seats and can peer up at that bit of sky, or watch the shape the sun makes on the walls, or the interesting shades of greyness or colour as the light changes. It won't change anyone's life, but it's interesting and worth a look if you like this sort of thing.
The weather was not the best for photography or viewing yesterday but I'll be back. I was told it's designed for peak viewing pleasure at sunrise and sunset, and most mysterious at night. When the weather clears, I'll be there.