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This set is from a day out with some fellow Flickrites, namely, InvernoDreaming , [Photom] , Andy Feltham... and myself. Despite wandering around separately we have come away with some strikingly similar shots but I guess it was inevitable given that we are fans of similar types of photography and were in the same area...
Thanks go to Tom Sebastiano for coming up with the idea and to Tom Westbury for the location suggestion. A big thanks to Andy Feltham for putting up with me/putting me up.
A great day spent in wonderful company with people similarly afflicted. Could not have wished for a better group of people to do this with...
A couple of dramatic (and well-placed) contrails radiating behind the Christian Science Center Plaza at late twilight. With Reflection Hall (now home of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra) and the Mother Church in the foreground at the end of the reflecting pool. Reflection Hall is one of a trio of Brutalist buildings designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei & Associates ringing the reflecting pool.
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Nikon D750, Nikkor 20mm / f2.8D
Former Camden Town Hall Annexe in King's Cross, London, UK.
Design (1973): Sydney Cook.
Now: Hotel 'The Standard'.
Design (2019): Archer Humphryes and interior designer Shawn Hausman.
External refurbishment and four-storey roof extension by ORMS.
Glad the brutalist look was kept.
Osiedle Orła Białego, Poznań, Poland.
Design (1980-1993): Zdzisław Hirsch and Jan Jeger.
Osiedle Orła Białego is considered one of the important examples of brutalist architecture in Poland.
The David K. Karem building is one of many examples of modern Brutal architecture in Louisville, Kentucky. The city likes architects of Brutalism.
Designed by Hartstern, Louis & Henry architectural firm, the David K. Karem concrete building was erected in 1965.
Having gone in search of Brutalism, I am not an architect, only a photographer. To the architects out there, I understand that not all concrete reinforced buildings are Brutalist architecture; and that Brutalism is from a specific time frame and a specific architectural philosophy. I recognize that there are a mind-boggling number of "isms" to modern architecture. That concrete building could be Critical Regionalism, another could be Structuralism, Metabolism, Post Modernism, or Whateverism. But let me have this– if it roughly looks like a duck and roughly quacks like a duck, well, I would like to refer to this style with my fellow laymen as a duck without having to research each building's history and what its architects stated it was. Upon seeing it, I need to use a familiar term that other common folk can also conjure up because they saw the movie.
The largest wind barrier in the world (1750 meter; 129 sections; 25 meters high) had to be modified to make room for a rail connection (Theemswegtracé, 2021).
This barrier was designed by Maarten Struijs and Frans de Wit (1983), in order to protect ships in the Caland Canal.
The now retired Maarten Struijs invited himself to design this replacement section (144 meter; 27 sections; 24 meters high). It was completed in 2018.
The train track is nearing its completion.
About to die and be replaced by a steel and glass faceless building: Blakeburg, a sculpture of a brutalist building.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Design (1977): Jan Hoogstad.
Golden hour falls on the Soviet-style housing blocks of a city in southern Ukraine. Taken on a flight from Kyiv (Kiev), to Istanbul, Türkiye (nee Turkey).
Shot with my Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
Das Gothaer-Haus der Gothaer Lebensversicherung in #Offenbach wurde in den 70er Jahren erbaut und zählt zum Stil der Brutalismus Architektur. Von außen gesehen markant ist seine Glasfassade.
The Dr. Neher Laboratory (Dutch: Dr. Neherlaboratorium), was the research facility of the Dutch state-owned telco PTT.
The tower was designed as a style element, but was later used to attach antenna's to.
Design: S.J. van Embden (1950).
Leidschendam, The Netherlands.
Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse
Formerly known as:
Hampden County Hall of Justice
50 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts
Built: 1971 - 1973
Architect: Eduardo Fernando Catalano (designer of Juilliard School of Music)
Architectural Style: International Modernism / Brutalism
Der Bierpinsel - Berliner Brutalismus dem Verfall anheimgegeben.
The so called "Bierpinsel" (beer brush) - Berlin brutalism left to decay.
Katowice Railway Station
Katowice - Poland
Architect: Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki
The future retro look of the external red lift at the new Standard Hotel in London, opposite St Pancras station.
I took a stroll round the Barbican Estate recently, and soaked up the omnipresent Brutalist architecture there.
It would be amazing to live there, if only I had the millions required to actually buy one of the flats these days!
Anyway, it was the perfect environment for me to get some nice shots with my tilt shift lens, even if the light was a little bland by the time I got there ...