Functionalism (architecture and interior)
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Welcome to the library!
Stockholm Public Library (Stockholms stadsbibliotek) is an open and inviting space, designed by famous Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund and officially opened 1928.
Stockholm Public Library is one of Asplund's most important works and illustrates his gradual shift from classicism to functionalism.
Stockholm Public Library is a great example of the style called Swedish Grace. This library has been listed as one of the world's most beautiful libraries.
The 360-degree tower of books is open to the public, who can climb to the top of the stacks and peer down on the selections below.
« Faisant face à la Collégiale Saint-Jean, le parking Neujean n’est pas en reste architecturalement parlant. Son plan limpide est l’expression d’un fonctionnalisme appuyé, servant pleinement le confort de l’automobiliste. Séparés par une étroite ruelle, les deux édifices entretiennent un dialogue discret, que je propose d’activer au moyen d’un “objet contemporain” – la culture faisant office d’articulation plus ou moins fertile entre deux époques presque révolues. Plus près de Toi se présente depuis la rue comme une sculpture jaune coiffant la façade en béton du parking. Au 5e étage, on en découvre un fragment en interaction avec l’intervention d’Adrien Lucca. Depuis le toit, l’objet s’avèrera être une sorte de plate-forme d’observation qui s’avance dans le vide suivant une pente légère, entre le chœur et la rotonde de Saint-Jean. Aussi hasardeux qu’il en ait l’air, ce promontoire répond aux normes de sécurité en vigueur et nous laisserons à chacun le libre choix de l’emprunter pour s’y photographier, prêcher ou faire ce que bon lui semble. »
"Facing the Collegiate Church of Saint-Jean, the Neujean car park is not to be outdone architecturally. Its clear plan is the expression of strong functionalism, fully serving the comfort of the motorist. Separated by a narrow lane, the two buildings maintain a discreet dialogue, which I propose to activate by means of a “contemporary object” - the culture serving as a more or less fertile articulation between two almost bygone eras. Closer to You appears from the street as a yellow sculpture covering the concrete facade of the parking lot. On the 5th floor, we discover a fragment of it interacting with the intervention of Adrien Lucca. From the roof, the object will turn out to be a sort of observation platform that juts out into the void on a slight slope, between the choir and the rotunda of Saint John. As hazardous as it may seem, this promontory meets current safety standards and we will leave it to everyone to choose to borrow it to take pictures, preach or do what they want. "
South America, Brasil, São Paulo, USP, FAU, Salão Caramelo, Ramps, Students (slightly cropped from T)
The open underside of a façade of the FAU (Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo) is the only place where the logic of the the brutalist closed box, where the sunlight can only enter from above, is not applied here.
The FAU was designed by J.B. Vilanova Artigas and is a prime example of Paulista Brutalism, the second phase of 60s Brazilian Modernism. The design started in 1961 and was completed in 1969 under dictatorial rule. The absence of windows on this level of the building is meant to express 'society's antagonistic nature and conditions'. The use of brutalist, untreated concrete, had to do with this too ánd had another reason - Vilanova, also the dean of the faculty, aimed to use the poor and largely untrained local workforce for emancipatory purposes, to provide them with a job and train them on the job.
Vilanova Artigas wrote the following about the building with its well-designed spatial flow (ramps instead of staircases, lots of glass in the internal walls) : "a spatialization of democracy, in dignified spaces, without front door ... where all activities are valid."
The military coup of 1964 ending Brazilian democracy proved that the building wasn’t able to shield the institution from authoritarian rule - alas architecture alone neither can bring on societal change nor can function as a buffer, cushioning the full brunt of revolutionary change.
So Vilanova Artigas was sacked by the military regime (and later exiled) and the design of the building was changed to monitor the movement and activities of students better – altering the nature of the building from an instrument of democracy to a repressive panopticon.
This is number 28 of Enchanted Concrete: my album dedicated to Brazilian Modernism.
Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano
architect Horia Creanga
1934 - Elisabeta Cantacuzino villa,
15 Aleea Alexandru Street, Bucharest
arhitect Horia Creanga
1934 - Vila Elisabeta Cantacuzino,
Aleea Alexandru 15, București
Detail of Helsinki Velodrome, designed by Hilding Ekelund, built in 1940.
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Canada Malting Silos is one of two remaining silos in Toronto's Harbourfront in Ontario, Canada. Located at the foot of Bathurst Street at Bathurst Quay (Eireann Quay), the silos were built in 1928 to store malt for the Canada Malting Company. It was an important work of industrial architecture, as grain elevators had long been built out of wood, and thus were at great danger of fire. The concrete malting towers were an innovation, and the stark functionalism of the prominent building was an early influence on modernist architecture.
It was abandoned in the 1980s and destined for demolition, but it was designated a heritage site by the city of Toronto. A group called Metronome Canada hoped to convert the silos into a music museum or theme park. The city of Toronto is also considering it as a location for a municipal history museum.
Demolition of the germination and kiln buildings began early September 2010. The silos will be left standing, eventually being incorporated into future developments on the site. The municipality has not yet decided exactly what will be done with the space once the demolition project is complete
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Europe, The Netherlands, Noord Brabant, Tilburg, Spoorzone, LocHal (uncut)
Shot on a corridor skirting one of the upper levels of the LocHal at the Spoorzone. It's the 'Stadsbalkon' (City balcony). It was designed (Civic architects) for the redevelopment (2017) of the building. It epitomizes its functionalist lineage. It is also known as building 60. LocHal means Locomotive Hall. In this more than 18 meters high glass and iron shed, locomotives were manitained/repaired
On the left is Tilburg railway station, which has a characteristic ‘fragmented’ roof (Van der Gaast, 1965).
The Spoorzone is a decommissioned maintenance yard of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen – the Dutch Railways.
The LocHal was realized in 1932. It had fourteen giant workstations. Under some of these, there were recessed, trench-like spaces that enabled the mechanics to easily reach the undercarriages of the locomotives. Throughout the years, steam locomotives, electric locomotives like the 1200 series, and diesel traction units of the Dutch/Swiss TEE were maintained.
The Spoorzone was decommissioned in 2010 and sold to the municipality of Tilburg. A Master Plan (2012) was the basis for its development. Since then, most large buildings have been given new uses, often after major renovation.
The Spoorzone is now transformed into “an attractive breeding ground with a mix of alternative catering & cultural facilities (e.g. a library), urban sports, creative workspaces, progressive education and non-conformist public events.”
Source: here.
Braaksma & Roos designed the redevelopment of the the LocHal. Mecanoo was responsible for the interior of the library.
This is number 285 of Urban Frontiers.
Building on the opposite side - Dzirnavu street 58. Riga is very rich with beautiful architecture masterpieces. But locals are rarely aware of it. Dzirnavu street 58 is located at the very centre but how many have truly looked at it this elegant building at least once? It's unusual in Riga centre context, because it's not representing art nouveau or functionalism, but something much more rare here - neo baroque. The building was built in 1901 and owned by Riga's city official architect back then - Reinhold Schmaeling, the "king of red brick architecture of Riga". Back in 2001 - exactly at the building's centenary - it was privatized, not without a scandal. However, the owner's interest about it's restoration apparently have been much smaller...
www.photoriga.com/2018/02/dzirnavu-street-58-dzirnavu-iel...
Architect Reinhold Schmaeling
arhitekts.riga.lv/index.php/21-products/dvd-movies/174-sc...
These houses are awaiting demolition around 2023.
Ukrainian refugees are temporarily housed in the houses that become vacant.
Jūrmala is a seaside resort that is sometimes referred to as Latvia's "French Riviera." It is the closest beach to Riga and has been a holiday resort since the 19th century. Jurmala is a very sprawling city, stretching along the coastline, and the housing is scattered under the trees, which has preserved the environment.
One of the greatest prides of the resort town of Jūrmala is its unique wooden architecture. Recognizing the aesthetic appeal of wood and the suitability of the material for seasonal housing, appreciating its positive properties and impact on both human health and environmental pollution, in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, buildings in Riga Jūrmala were mainly built of wood, which is why wooden buildings predominate in the city's architecture over other types of construction.
The architecture of Jūrmala is characterized by magnificent woodcarving decorations in the window openings, building facades and roofs. Here, features of classicism, historicism, art nouveau and national romanticism, as well as functionalism naturally coexist. When creating new, contemporary architecture, accents are sought that are obtained from historical buildings - decorative finishing boards on facades, while preserving traditional volumes and scales.
Happy Window Wednesday!
A "doorzonwoning" was a type of row house what was most build in the 60s and 70s in The Netherlands.
Doorzonwoning translate as sun-through-house. It means the living room had on the front and back windows. So the sun can shine through the house!
String Quartet No 8, in C Minor, Op. 110 Dimtri Shostakovich
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"Gold" Building
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Go...
Category: Blocks
Period: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importance: B
LMI code: B-II-m-B-18209
Address: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
District: Bucuresti
Region: Muntenia
Imobilul Solly Gold
Blocul "Gold"
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Bl...
viabucuresti.ro/pe-urmele-lui-marcel-iancu-prin-cartierul...
Categorie: Blocuri/imobile
Perioada: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importanta: B
Cod LMI: B-II-m-B-18209
Adresa: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
Judet: Bucuresti
Regiune: Muntenia
architect Marcel Janco
arhitect Marcel Iancu
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Marcel Janco
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco
Marcel Iancu
ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Iancu
Marcel Hermann Iancu
Born: May 24, 1895; Bucharest, Romania
Died: April 21, 1984; Israel
Nationality: Jewish, Romanian, Israeli
Art Movement: Dada, Constructivism
Marcel Janco’s Contribution to Modern Architecture in Romania
Professor Dr. Ana-Maria Zahariade, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM), Bucharest
« Faisant face à la Collégiale Saint-Jean, le parking Neujean n’est pas en reste architecturalement parlant. Son plan limpide est l’expression d’un fonctionnalisme appuyé, servant pleinement le confort de l’automobiliste. Séparés par une étroite ruelle, les deux édifices entretiennent un dialogue discret, que je propose d’activer au moyen d’un “objet contemporain” – la culture faisant office d’articulation plus ou moins fertile entre deux époques presque révolues. Plus près de Toi se présente depuis la rue comme une sculpture jaune coiffant la façade en béton du parking. Au 5e étage, on en découvre un fragment en interaction avec l’intervention d’Adrien Lucca. Depuis le toit, l’objet s’avèrera être une sorte de plate-forme d’observation qui s’avance dans le vide suivant une pente légère, entre le chœur et la rotonde de Saint-Jean. Aussi hasardeux qu’il en ait l’air, ce promontoire répond aux normes de sécurité en vigueur et nous laisserons à chacun le libre choix de l’emprunter pour s’y photographier, prêcher ou faire ce que bon lui semble. »
"Facing the Collegiate Church of Saint-Jean, the Neujean car park is not to be outdone architecturally. Its clear plan is the expression of strong functionalism, fully serving the comfort of the motorist. Separated by a narrow lane, the two buildings maintain a discreet dialogue, which I propose to activate by means of a “contemporary object” - the culture serving as a more or less fertile articulation between two almost bygone eras. Closer to You appears from the street as a yellow sculpture covering the concrete facade of the parking lot. On the 5th floor, we discover a fragment of it interacting with the intervention of Adrien Lucca. From the roof, the object will turn out to be a sort of observation platform that juts out into the void on a slight slope, between the choir and the rotunda of Saint John. As hazardous as it may seem, this promontory meets current safety standards and we will leave it to everyone to choose to borrow it to take pictures, preach or do what they want. "
South America, Brasil, Sao Paulo, USP Campus, Departemento de Geografia, Eduardo Corona (uncut)
The building of the Geography and History Department, part of the FFLCH ( Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas) of the USP in Sampa was designed by Eduardo Corona in 1961. An aerial view of the building is here.
It’s design has similarities to the FAU building shown in the previous posts. But It is lower-slung and the structure of the interior space is more traditional than FAU’s and didn’t follow the Brutalist practice of untreated and unpainted concrete.
Both share a fascinating flow of space and the functionalist de-rigueur ramps instead of staircases and an armed concrete matrix roof lets light into the building. Both roofs were designed by the same engineering office and Eduardo Corona and João Batista Vilanova Artigas (the architect of FAU) were both professors at FAU.
Thanx Eli K. Hayasaka for providing the link to the information about the architect and the building.
By the way: in the fifties and sixties of the last century, Brazil played a unique part in the modernistic movement. The state-sponsored Modernistic architecture was then treated as a strategic National project. The style that was developed formed a rather unique and transcultural brand of Modernism that in its turn influenced Modernism in Europe,
« Faisant face à la Collégiale Saint-Jean, le parking Neujean n’est pas en reste architecturalement parlant. Son plan limpide est l’expression d’un fonctionnalisme appuyé, servant pleinement le confort de l’automobiliste. Séparés par une étroite ruelle, les deux édifices entretiennent un dialogue discret, que je propose d’activer au moyen d’un “objet contemporain” – la culture faisant office d’articulation plus ou moins fertile entre deux époques presque révolues. Plus près de Toi se présente depuis la rue comme une sculpture jaune coiffant la façade en béton du parking. Au 5e étage, on en découvre un fragment en interaction avec l’intervention d’Adrien Lucca. Depuis le toit, l’objet s’avèrera être une sorte de plate-forme d’observation qui s’avance dans le vide suivant une pente légère, entre le chœur et la rotonde de Saint-Jean. Aussi hasardeux qu’il en ait l’air, ce promontoire répond aux normes de sécurité en vigueur et nous laisserons à chacun le libre choix de l’emprunter pour s’y photographier, prêcher ou faire ce que bon lui semble. »
"Facing the Collegiate Church of Saint-Jean, the Neujean car park is not to be outdone architecturally. Its clear plan is the expression of strong functionalism, fully serving the comfort of the motorist. Separated by a narrow lane, the two buildings maintain a discreet dialogue, which I propose to activate by means of a “contemporary object” - the culture serving as a more or less fertile articulation between two almost bygone eras. Closer to You appears from the street as a yellow sculpture covering the concrete facade of the parking lot. On the 5th floor, we discover a fragment of it interacting with the intervention of Adrien Lucca. From the roof, the object will turn out to be a sort of observation platform that juts out into the void on a slight slope, between the choir and the rotunda of Saint John. As hazardous as it may seem, this promontory meets current safety standards and we will leave it to everyone to choose to borrow it to take pictures, preach or do what they want. "
Danish functionalism in the 1930s
Architect: Kai Gottlobs (1887-1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaj_Gottlob
Smartphone snapshots of the inner court of the new headquarters of EDP. Cais do Sodré, Lisboa.
Architects: Manuel & Francisco Aires Mateus.
No photoshop applied.
« Faisant face à la Collégiale Saint-Jean, le parking Neujean n’est pas en reste architecturalement parlant. Son plan limpide est l’expression d’un fonctionnalisme appuyé, servant pleinement le confort de l’automobiliste. Séparés par une étroite ruelle, les deux édifices entretiennent un dialogue discret, que je propose d’activer au moyen d’un “objet contemporain” – la culture faisant office d’articulation plus ou moins fertile entre deux époques presque révolues. Plus près de Toi se présente depuis la rue comme une sculpture jaune coiffant la façade en béton du parking. Au 5e étage, on en découvre un fragment en interaction avec l’intervention d’Adrien Lucca. Depuis le toit, l’objet s’avèrera être une sorte de plate-forme d’observation qui s’avance dans le vide suivant une pente légère, entre le chœur et la rotonde de Saint-Jean. Aussi hasardeux qu’il en ait l’air, ce promontoire répond aux normes de sécurité en vigueur et nous laisserons à chacun le libre choix de l’emprunter pour s’y photographier, prêcher ou faire ce que bon lui semble. »
"Facing the Collegiate Church of Saint-Jean, the Neujean car park is not to be outdone architecturally. Its clear plan is the expression of strong functionalism, fully serving the comfort of the motorist. Separated by a narrow lane, the two buildings maintain a discreet dialogue, which I propose to activate by means of a “contemporary object” - the culture serving as a more or less fertile articulation between two almost bygone eras. Closer to You appears from the street as a yellow sculpture covering the concrete facade of the parking lot. On the 5th floor, we discover a fragment of it interacting with the intervention of Adrien Lucca. From the roof, the object will turn out to be a sort of observation platform that juts out into the void on a slight slope, between the choir and the rotunda of Saint John. As hazardous as it may seem, this promontory meets current safety standards and we will leave it to everyone to choose to borrow it to take pictures, preach or do what they want. "
An Avant-garde Home from 1933
The Sonneveld House, designed by architects Leendert van der Vlugt and Johannes Andreas Brinkman, for Albertus Sonneveld, director of the Van Nelle Factory, is a clear example of the principles of the House Machine theorized by Le Corbusier and represented in the Netherlands by the Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of functionalism. It is a comfortable house as a machine, designed around its inhabitants, efficient and hygienic, thanks to new materials can provide light, air and needed to live in complete psychophysical wellbeing space, thus responding to the five principles that Le Corbusier stipulated in his book “Towards a New Architecture” in 1921.
Sonneveld House illustrates how the influence of the new trends in architecture were received by the upper middle class.
Europe, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Hoogstraat, Public library Rotterdam, Escalators, People (uncut)
The Library Rotterdam here (1983, van den Broek&Bakema) is a land mark. Both the building and the institution. It attracts some 2.1 million visitors per year. On 24 000 m² floor space the library's collection includes some 700,000 books. There are 9 floors and ample facilities to access the collection digitally. And it offers hundreds of workspaces to sit down and have an in depth look in the books.
This pic was shot into the characteristic glass covered central atrium.