Archives: Brutalisms

Urnario Municipal, Cementerio del Norte

What is especially evident here is the preference of the Brazilian Escola Paulista for having enormous blocks of concrete appear suspended. A practice that is carried to extremes in this cemetery in the neighboring country.

Templo de la Patria

The “Temple of the Nation” is an urban landmark located at the base of the volcano Pichincha. Dumet tried to connect the mountainous setting with the architecture through large concrete ribs of girders with wide openings. Halls linked by nar…

Collective Housing Tower Building “Romani?a”

With 73m and 22 floors it is the tallest building of Chisinau. Originally it was conceived as a clinic complex with a roof restaurant, movie theater and fitness facilities. However during contruction work the project was changed into a housing complex. …

St. John’s Abbey Church

This edifice is part of a large Benedictine monastery and consists of a trapezoidal nave and a bell tower the shape of which is itself reminiscent of a bell. With the sculptural use of exposed concrete on a monumental scale, the church is considered a k…

Plumbers and Gasfitters Union Building

The building counts as one of the earliest examples of Brutalism in Victoria. Massive polygonal exposed concrete volumes are cantilevered and recessed into distinctive shapes.

Stadttheater Ingolstadt

With its basic polygonal structure the theater was often mentioned in contemporary literature as an example of how architecture can blend with its surroundings, unlike the International Style buildings, that many perceived as decontextualized structures…

Amal Lady Davis High School

The school complex is grouped around a central courtyard, from which the wings, each designed differently, radiate. The plan enables the simple extension of the segments and is meant to function as a small city, concentrated in a single building complex…

Student Residence, Ben Gurion University

Apartments of different sizes are provided for different study phases. From large communal apartments for 12–18 students for the early orientation phase, via medium-sized flats for 6–8, to ones for 2–4 inhabitants for students nearing graduation a…

Church of Reconciliation (Versöhnungskirche)

The church on the grounds of the former concentration camp is half underground. A gesture of humility, the result of discussions on the role of the Protestant Church during the Third Reich. An example of concrete as a metaphor for nature: building and s…

Metropolitan Festival Hall

The Festival Hall is Japan’s first concert hall. In order to blend better into the surrounding parklands, the complex was kept as low as possible. The heavy cornice and roof superstructures are reminiscent of the oeuvre of Le Corbusier, for whom Maeka…

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