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Erno Goldfinger’s Caradale House, Brutalist architecture at it's finest.
Canon EOS 1n, Canon 16-35mm f/2.8Lii, Hoya R25 Filter
Kodak HIE (exp.2008) Dev: Rodinal (R09) 1:50 14min@20degC
Carradale House. Erno Goldfinger
Part of my visual poem to Post-war social housing:
100realpeople.substack.com/p/post-war-social-housing
Nikon d750 / Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5
It was a bit bright so I did not realise that the stairs matched the hair of the young lady going down Terminus Street Harlow.
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(NL: Vier op 'n rij)
Arlon-Treves office complex, Brussels, Belgium.
Design (1968): Jean Verschuere.
This concrete monster is in a bit of a state, but redevelopment plans are in the making.
Another attempt at brutalism architecture. A terrace apartment building made for the Swebrick Brick Challenge of April, 2017. The challenge part is technically not a brick. It is part 2432, modified tile 1x2 with handle.
Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus
Adele-Schreiber-Krieger-Straße 1
10117 Berlin
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The Pearl, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Design (late 1960s): T.P. Bennett and Son.
The Pearl stands out as a bold example of Brutalist architecture in Newcastle, creating a striking contrast with the city's other architectural styles:
It towers over nearby Tudor and Georgian buildings, highlighting the city's architectural evolution.
The juxtaposition of The Pearl with historic structures like those on Grey Street showcases Newcastle's architectural diversity.
The St James Centre of Edinburgh being demolished. It was built in the the 1960s, in the then fashionable architectutal style known as Brutalism, an exposure of the functional architectural bones of a building, "brut" in French referring to the raw concrete surfaces which were often a visually prominent feature.
Reinforced concrete of the modern kind unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on one's point of view) is not architecturally long-lived. Reinforced concrete tower blocks even today are often designed for only a fifty year lifespan. The Georgian town houses it replaced were well over 100 years old and and could well have survived another 100 years. The St James Centre, whose unloved architectural style was often referred to locally as "Alcatraz Gothic", will be replaced by a wonderful modern monstrosity of whimsy often referred to locally as the "Golden Turd".
The next steps in this demolition will be interesting, rather like the game of pulling little wooden bricks out of a tower without knocking it down.
Original: DSC01723_DxOX
[Taken with the Tamrom 16-300mm (a recent acquisition being test driven) @ 16mm and processed by DxO Optics -- which includes auto-correction of the lens geometry and chromatic aberration.]