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Great Arthur House with its signature yellow panels is the tallest building in the modernist Golden Lane Estate, completed in 1957. Behind it stands Cromwell Tower on the brutalist Barbican Estate, completed in 1973.
Novazzano Housing Complex. Novazzano, Switzerland (Oct 2022)
Residential housing complex comprised of around 100 apartments set around an upper and lower courtyard. There’s also an underground car park, and a small shopping centre linked to the complex by a footbridge.
Architect: Mario Botta, 1989-1992
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Organy Hasiora.
Inspired by Polish monument Organ, on Snozka pass near Czorsztyn, Poland.
Sculptor: Władysław Hasior
Built Year: 1966
Made by Bender
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A concrete ladder! If only there were such a thing. Fans of Brutalism (like me!) could spend many happy hours climbing up and down it, marvelling at the harshness of its rough aggregate surface.
In fact this is a rather more run-of-the-mill set of concrete steps, shot from above. I rotated the image 90 degrees to the right. So it's a bit of a cheat. Sorry.
The stairs provide pedestrian access from Bastion Highwalk on London Wall down to the road leading into Bastion House's lower service level.
Architect: Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
Year: 1969
The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline.
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Very young children undergo a phase where they delight in repeating words of a scatological or otherwise gross or offensive nature that they picked up somewhere. You shouldn't worry too much - it's just a phase and they soon grow out of it.
Much in the same way, architects delight in imposing the ugliness of sheer concrete on a building that then becomes an eyesore the public has to endure for decades, until it is finally torn down. Probably the root cause is the same that motivates children - the delight in causing annoyance and outrage.
However, unlike children, architects never grow out of it, and more's the pity.
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Although I have enjoyed the historic centre of Colmar this building is much more closer to my architectural taste.
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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 ...
The fine greens of a perfectly maintained Japanese lawn go very well with the edgy concrete.
Ohgigaoka Campus, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Noinochi, Japan.
Design (1967): Sachio Otani.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Botlek, GEM grain elevator.
Ah the fate of the modernist building,...... redevelopment at the end of the life span, is often not in the books. Especially when the context is a purely industrial one and the location remote. So no function changes for the old grain elevator on display here like the one that took place in the old MaasSilo - which was turned into a dance club.
This image belongs to a series I made in 2010 (while commuting) of the demolition of the GEM (Graan Elevator Maatschappij, after a merger: European Bulk Services) Maassilo (1960 )in the Botlek area of Rotterdam. The industrial plot has a new destiny - a tank park (Botlek tank terminal). A video about the demolition is here (in Dutch) : here
Shown here, set off against the new and gleaming first part of the new tank park, is the distribution and control part of the grain elevator/silos. True to the legacy of a modernist building, there's a flow aspect of the interior of the building to be enjoyed -this time not created by elegant ramps and vides but in the purely industrial way.
Number 260 of the Rotterdam Harbour and industry album.
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West side of Croydon Magistrates' Court, Barclay Road. Designed in a brutalist style by architects Robert Atkinson & Partners and opened in 1969.
Photo By: Cate Infinity
Castles of concrete, silent and strong,
In your halls, the echoes of the bygone throng.
Whispers of a time when you stood so proud,
Now you’re but ghosts beneath the cloud.
Here amid the cold, hard lines,
Life once pulsed, bold and raw,
Now only the wind whines,
Through corridors empty and flaw.
Your walls, once filled with defiant dreams,
Now host the silence and its screams.
Castles of concrete, silent and strong,
Guardians of history, right or wrong.
Monuments to the bold, the brave,
Stand resolute as time’s relentless wave.
In your shadows, we find our own,
In this urban jungle, we’ve grown.
We walk your bases, touch your skin,
Feel the pulse of ages within,
The city changes — heartbeats shift,
But you, timeless giants, are our rift.
A fortress of memory, holding fast,
In a world that's changing too fast.
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From yesterday's shot, this is the building in all it's brutalist cladded glory. Originally completed in 1975, this office block was converted recently into some of the worst flats in the country under the universally disliked (except in govt and slum landlord circles) Permitted Development Rights (PDR) scheme which allows developers to bypass community consultation, bypass planning standards, and allow them to build homes without contributing to local needs .
Laughing faces appear in the tessellations of the brutalist Welbeck car park, in Marylebone (close to Oxford Circus), London.
Built in 1971 by Michael Blampied and Partners to serve the flagship Debenhams store on Oxford Street, the car park exterior design is composed of tesselate concrete polygons. In 2017 its demolition was approved by Westminister Council. Campaigners are fighting to prevent it being torn down and replaced by a hotel.
An interesting article about the situation on Spaces.
Shot with a Nikon D40 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6G II lens and processed in GIMP (including the addition of a light Orton effect) and Photoscape.
The Brutalist style office block, Argyle House, regularly referred to as one of the ugliest buildings in the city, and not without reason (although it looks better in B&W photos than it does in real life!)
I am no fan of Brutalist architecture, but even worse, the lax planning regulations of the 1960s meant this large, concrete block was allowed to be built on the edge of the Old Town, just a stone's throw from Edinburgh Castle. Yes, I know some love the style, but I find it cold, ugly and very impersonal (it has also dated very badly, greying concrete as it weathers)
Today the protection of heritage sites would make that difficult, sadly the planners of the 60s seemed happy to impose this large, ugly, (then) modern structure in a historic area, let alone visible from the battlements of a major castle and symbol of national heritage. I know it was a different era, but ye gods, it is hard to believe any architects or planners thought this was a good idea to build something like this right below Castle Rock!
University Of Toronto Robarts Library . With Brutalist Architecture. Construction of the library began in 1968 and completed in 1973, at a cost of over $40 million.One of the most unique building in Toronto
Abandoned sports ground in Chobi (Khobi) and "The Friendship of Nations Monument", brutalsim from the 80s - Georgia
Concrete supporting columns at the base of Fellows Court, Hackney. Built in 1963 and designed by LCC Architects’ Department.
Brutalist parking garages, especially at night, remind me of the set of "Blade Runner."
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I've only recently come to see the attraction in these brutalist concrete edifices from the 1960's. This is the old Library in Birmingham I believe and slated for demolition.