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Brutalist parking garages, especially at night, remind me of the set of "Blade Runner."
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Boston Fire Department Engine 7, Ladder 17, District 4 Fire Station on Columbus Avenue where Bay Village meets the Back Bay. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Departamento de Bomberos de Boston, Motor 7, Escalera 17, Estación del Distrito 4, en la Avenida Columbus, donde Bay Village se encuentra con Back Bay. Boston, Massachusetts, EE. UU.
The Welbeck NCP car park near Oxford Street, London. It was very flat and dull on Saturday, but this helped with the neutral sky during the B&W conversion.
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!
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© David K. Edwards. UCSD's Geisel Library. Yeah, Dr. Seuss. Yeah, Brutalist. For fun you can hey look it up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
The 1973 Brutalist tower at 177 Huntington Avenue is the monolithic anchor of the modernist Christian Science Plaza. Boston, Massachusetts USA
La torre brutalista de 1973 en 177 Avenida Huntington es el ancla monolítica de la modernista Plaza Ciencia Chrstiana. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
Leica M6, Voigtländer Ultron VM 35mm f/2, Ilford HP5+ @800
Film developed in Ilfotec DD-X 1:4 dilution
Negative scanned using Fujifilm X-T5 with Fujinon XF 60mm f/2.4 Macro. Processed with Analogue Toolbox for Capture One.
Much beloved, and perhaps even more hated, Boston City Hall, completed in 1968, is certainly memorable. It remains as an iconic example of modernist Brutalist architecture. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
El muy querido, y quizás aún más odiado, Municipio de Boston, finalizado en 1968, es sin duda memorable. Permanece como un ejemplo icónico de la arquitectura brutalista modernista. Boston, Massachusetts, EE. UU.
A fuller frame picture of Grade II listed Brutalist building in the UK. This is one of four 'new' signal boxes built around Birmingham New Street Station in the mid 1960's to replace 70 odd manual boxes around the station as part of 'modernisation'. It was in use up to 2022 and still owned by Network Rail and part used for training and storage, but not as a signal box.
The Hialeah City Hall is a modest building by Brutalist Architectural standards, It is a rectangular building with a top floor that cantilevers over the rest, The once exposed concrete surface has been painted in shades of pastel browns and oranges. A mural of mosaic stones is its most striking feature. It covers the stairway tower and depicts the American and Cuban flags, a nod to the history of Miami. Other unique features include small framed windows on the second level and exposed supports for the third floor.
Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. With a population of 239,673 at the 2018 United States Census, Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in Florida. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. It is located west-northwest of Miami, and is the only place in the county, other than Homestead, Florida, to have its own street grid numbered separately from the rest of the county (which is otherwise based on Miami Avenue at Flagler Street in downtown Miami, the county seat).
Hialeah has the highest percentage of Cuban and Cuban-American residents of any city in the United States, at 73.37% of the population, making them a typical and prominent feature of the city's culture. All Hispanics make up 94.7% of the city's population, the second-highest percentage of a Hispanic population in a U.S. city with over 100,000 citizens.
Hialeah also has one of the largest Spanish-speaking communities in the country. In 2016, 96.3% of residents reported speaking Spanish at home, and the language is an important part of daily life in the city.
Hialeah is served by the Miami Metrorail at Okeechobee, Hialeah, and Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer stations. The Okeechobee and Hialeah stations serve primarily as park-and-ride commuter stations to commuters and residents going into Downtown Miami, and Tri-Rail station to Miami International Airport, and north to West Palm Beach.
The city's name is most commonly attributed to Muskogee origin, "Haiyakpo" (prairie) and "hili" (pretty) combining in "Hialeah" to mean "pretty prairie". Alternatively, the word is of Seminole origin meaning "Upland Prairie". The city is located upon a large prairie between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades.
The Seminole interpretation of its name, "High Prairie", evokes a picture of the grassy plains used by the native Indians coming from the everglades to dock their canoes and display their wares for the newcomers of Miami. This "high prairie" caught the eye of pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss and Missouri cattleman James H. Bright in 1921. Together, they developed not only the town of Hialeah but also the Hialeah Park Race Track.
In the early "Roaring '20s", Hialeah produced significant entertainment contributions. Sporting included the Spanish sport of jai alai and greyhound racing, and media included silent movies like D.W. Griffith's The White Rose which was made at the Miami Movie Studios located in Hialeah. However, the 1926 Miami hurricane brought many of these things to an end.
In the years since its incorporation in 1925, many historical events and people have been associated with Hialeah. The opening of the horse racing course at Hialeah Park Race Track in 1925 (which was nicknamed the "Grand Dame") received more coverage in the Miami media than any other sporting event in the history of Dade County up to that time and since then there have been countless horse racing histories played out at the world-famous 220-acre (0.89 km2) park.[6] It was considered one of the most grand of thoroughbred horse racing parks with its majestic Mediterranean style architecture and was considered the Jewel of Hialeah at the time.
The park's grandeur has attracted millions, included among them are names known around the world such as the Kennedy family, Harry Truman, General Omar Bradley, Winston Churchill, and J.P. Morgan. The Hialeah Park Race Track also holds the dual distinction of being an Audubon Bird Sanctuary due to its famous pink flamingos and being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The famous aviator Amelia Earhart in 1937 said her final good-byes to the continental U.S. from Hialeah as she left on her ill-fated flight around the world in 1937.
While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II veterans and city planners transformed the city into a working-class community. Hialeah historian Patricia Fernández-Kelly explained "It became an affordable Eden." She further describes the city as "a place where different groups have left their imprint while trying to create a sample of what life should be like." Several waves of Cuban exiles, starting after the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and continuing through to the Freedom Flights from 1965 to 1973, the Mariel boatlift in 1980, and the Balseros or boat people of the late 1990s, created what at least one expert has considered the most economically successful immigrant enclave in U.S. history as Hialeah is the only American industrial city that continues to grow.
From a population of 1,500 in 1925, Hialeah has grown at a rate faster than most of the 10 larger cities in the state of Florida since the 1960s and holds the rank of Florida's fifth-largest city, with more than 224,000 residents. The city is also one of the largest employers in Dade County.
In January 2009, Forbes magazine listed Hialeah as one of the most boring cities in the United States citing the city's large population and anonymity in the national media.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hialeah,_Florida
www.miamidade.gov/Apps/PA/propertysearch/#/
miamibrutalism.tumblr.com/post/106367500508/hialeah-city-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
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Oxford University, England. The Denys Wilkinson Building is home to the astrophysics and particle physics departments of Oxford University. Designed by Philip Dowson and built in the late 60s it became a prominent example of new brutalism in Oxford. Originally it was named the Nuclear Physics Laboratory as it was going to house the department of nuclear physics. In 2001 the name was changed in honour of British nuclear physicist Sir Denys Wilkinson.
Watching a bit more of the ongoing demolition of Sunderland's former Civic Centre this afternoon and the end of the Council Chamber.
Construction of the Civic Centre began in January 1968 on what was back then an open space with a children's play ground known as West Park.
The architects were Spence Bonnington & Collins and it followed the 'brutalist' style that had its roots in the 1950's.
Officially opened by HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon on 5 November 1970, it received a gold award from the Royal Institute of British Architects as well as a Civic Trust Award.
Today though, demolition contractors MGL Group were fast clearing the remaining section of the Civic Suite.
In the background is the tower of St George's United Reformed Church, although originally it was Presbyterian. It's one of the city's landmark buildings and must have one of the highest, if not the highest, church towers.
I recall a few years back when there were plans to widen the road than runs alongside, they decided to carry out an inspection of the building's fabric first. A cherry-picker from Wales (I was told it had the largest reach in the UK).
At the time, I was taking photographs for a local newspaper and managed to get permission to get into the cherry-pickers cradle and was taken right up above the lightning conductor on the very top of the tower – it was quite surreal!
Year: 1967-1970
Architects: Fernando Higueras, Antonio Miró Valverde
“This Brutalist masterpiece located in the Ciudad Universitaria, was commissioned to architects Fernando Higueras and Antonio Miró in 1965. The IPCE (Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute) is a four-storey reinforced concrete colossus which stands out for its circular plan and a cornice with sharp spikes. In fact, it is popularly known as the Crown of Thorns. Construction started in 1967 but it took several years until it got finished. In 1970, 4 months before its completion day, construction stopped leaving it unfinished for a long time. And it wasn’t until 1990 that the building completed its construction. The building’s form is a 40m radius circle divided into 30 sections and 56 frames.
The architect claimed he was anti-Le Corbusier and anti-Mies stating -´More is more´-
He was obsessed with the logic of construction, he was obsessed with biomorphism and the raw beauty in depth and light. Most of his buildings were therefore made in reinforced concrete.”
Information via - Virginia Duran virginia-duran.com/2014/02/06/the-most-bizarre-concrete-b...
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Former Caisse d'Epargne Bank headquarters
1975
Architect: JP Boulin