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Karowa 18

Warsaw - Poland

Architect: H. Dąbrowski, J. Kuźmienko, J. Nowak, P. Sembrat, A. Snopek

Mamiya 7II, 43mm, Fuji pro 160 NS

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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.

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...

 

Paul Turner Photography.

"Haus für Musiker", Raketenstation Hombroich, Germany.

 

Design (2014): Raimund Abraham.

  

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.

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.

 

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.

It was designed by the Hungarian born architect Ernő Goldfinger and completed in 1972. The villain Goldfinger in the Ian Fleming book and in the James Bond film is named after him, It was built in the brutalist style. Each flat has a balcony and large windows.

Mamiya 7II, 43mm, Lomo 800

 

Urban moments captured at the Barbican Centre.

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.

 

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neherlaboratorium

 

rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/530851/neherlab/leidschendam/

 

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.

 

Fireworks with Vitosha mountain the in background

Can see a distant firework show from the mountain itself

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

raw concrete+hulky form+waffle facade+erected 1969=brutalist

Smolna 8

Warsaw - Poland

Architect: Jan Bogusławski, Bohdan Gniewiewski

Preston's Grade II listed bus station and multi-storey car park.

The future retro look of the external red lift at the new Standard Hotel in London, opposite St Pancras station.

Amidst the brutal architecture

Now For Some Brutalism

Stepping Stone Falls

Flint, MI

Institut für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin, Berlin

Minolta CLE, 28mm, Fuji superia X-tra 400

Hotel Forum

Krakow - Poland

Architect: Janusz Ingarden

 

Described as occupying a fascinating nexus between Brutalism and Futurism. But what they didn’t know is that the Architect was really influenced by ATARI.

Robertson Davies Library.

Aka the Brutalist turkey. Someone told me the building looks like a giant turkey and I cannot unsee it now.

Toronto, Ontario

 

SMC Pentax-Q 03 Fish-Eye 3.2mm F5.6

03 Fish-Eye

Pentax Q7

Hadrian Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

I'm not too sure about the paintjob, though.

 

Design (1975): Newcastle City Engineers and Planning Department.

 

If the carpet from The Shining was a building...

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