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Kings Chase Shopping Centre, Kingswood, Bristol BS15

The Highcliff – amazing #brutalist park houses by Rosemary Stjernstedt. Like a lavish country estate for everyone. #brutalism #britisharchitecture #London #londonarchitecture #brutal_architecture, via Instagram ift.tt/2bDMBLK

The Draper Estate in Elephant & Castle, S.E.1. Draper House, the tower block element still stands today. Castle House (right) was demolished to make way for 'Strata SE1', a 43-story residential development by Brookfield Europe.

Hotel Forum (Kraków, Poland)

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

This flash trip to Paris (decided at 10am, in the car by noon, back the next day) had a nice juxtaposition to it: the immediate occasion was the eco-event near the Arc de Triomphe, but our ever ongoing treasure hunt had a architectural theme: brutalism. So, plants and concrete. Countryside and city. All rolled into less than 24 hours.

 

The first brutalist building on the list was the Centre National de la Danse, built in the late 60s, designed by Jacques Kalisz, by order of the then (communist) mayor, who wanted to break with traditional building styles. It is literally falling apart, but still very much in use. It had an interior partial make-over, but the 'listed building conundrum' might play a part on the exterior: because it's listed, you have the obligation to keep it intact, but at the same time you aren't allowed to do anything. :-)

 

More brutalist architecture to come.

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This area is packed with car during the week and very busy so it was a nice just to walk here and see the brutal architecture of ITAR TASS building

The Draper Estate in Elephant & Castle, S.E.1. Draper House, the tower block element still stands today. Castle House (right) was demolished to make way for 'Strata SE1', a 43-story residential development by Brookfield Europe.

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

The campaign to save this gem moves on this week as World's Monument Fund puts it on the "at risk" list.

Please support the campaign

www.prestonbusstation.co.uk/

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

And pouring softdrinks onto the pavement as I walk: "Ah the Lafayette Parish Courthouse, erected 1965." [pours out a softdrink]

 

Imagine how surprising it would have been if the white southerners of the mid-1960s had had the aesthetic foresight to align the center column of their imposing government building with the center line of the street it overlooks.

 

Speaking of white southerners of the mid-1960s, from 1965 to 1985 inmates were warehoused without air conditioning on the building's baking hot top floor. Casual sadism was rampant in daily life!

 

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In downtown Lafayette, Louisiana, on July 12th, 2014, Main Street and the Lafayette Parish Courthouse as viewed from the west side of Jefferson Street.

 

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

NA4471 Courthouses—United States—Pictorial works.

NA712.5.B78 Brutalism (Architecture)—United States.

NA9053.S7 Streetscapes (Urban design)—United States—Pictorial works.

HE355 Streets—United States—Pictorial works.

NA4125 Concrete construction—United States—Pictorial works.

HV8746.U6 Jails—United States—Pictorial works.

E169.12 Nineteen sixties—Pictorial works.

F379.L16 Lafayette (La.)—Pictorial works.

Taken from the DEWAN TUNKU CANSELOR, UM at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - LINCOLNOSE2®2008

 

DEWAN TUNKU CANSELOR (DTC)

Built in 1965, Dewan Tunku Canselor (DTC) is a landmark for University Malaya. It is here that the convocation ceremonies for

graduation have been held annually since August 1966 and to the hosting of numerous functions of the university including semester

examinations, special studio class, theatres performances, seminars and conferences. DTC was designed with a strong influence of

Brutalism Architecture and Modernism Movement. The two and half storey building was constructed mainly with off-form concrete

structure using egg-crate reinforced concrete ceiling and ‘beton brut’ images. On June 29th, 2001, a pre-dawn fire gutted the

building and almost ninety percent of the building was destroyed. The Faculty of Built Environment, University Malaya

participated in the effort of reconstructing the building to its original condition.

 

Note: CAMPUS BRUTALISM

In the late 1960s, many campuses in North America were undergoing expansions and, as a result, there are a significant number of Brutalist buildings at American and Canadian universities, beginning with Paul Rudolph's 1958 Yale Art and Architecture Building. Rudolph's design for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is an example of an entire campus designed from scratch in the Brutalist style.

Bierpinsel is the work of Ralph Schüler und Ursulina Schüler-Witte an architect couple who also designed the brutalist ICC Conference Center in Berlin-Westend. The original concept that came from the couple was that of a tree shape, but I don’t think this idea is there today. It looks more like a crazy Lego creation than anything else. Either way, it took four years to build it, between 1972 and 1976 and, according to the legend, it got its nickname due to the amount of free beer that was served on the opening day.

 

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boston, massachusetts

fall 1975

 

gala event, boston city hall

 

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

 

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

The Centre City building, in Birmingham city centre, not unreasonably; tried to make this as dementedly symmetrical as possible, but the tree and cranes put the kibosh on that

www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/berliner-festspiele/programm...

 

In early October, 2021, we took our cameras inside the ICC for the exciting The Sun Machine Is Coming Down, and it was great to take pictures inside this massive building.

 

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/berliner-festspiele/programm...

 

In early October, 2021, we took our cameras inside the ICC for the exciting The Sun Machine Is Coming Down, and it was great to take pictures inside this massive building.

 

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Prague to Zagreb - monochrome brutalism

Theodore Giesel Library, University of San Diego

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