Archives: Brutalisms

Park Hill

With this building, the architects, including two students from Peter Smithson’s class at the AA, realized the “streets in the sky” idea from their teacher’s “Golden Lane” project: The apartments are accessible from several open access route…

Trellick Tower

Trellick Tower is a bit the big brother of the Balfron Towers, which were erected shortly beforehand. It is one of the last giant British residential towers to be realized before the Oil Crisis. Its characteristic: the separate lift and service tower. A…

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Kulturzentrum Mattersburg

In the 1960s and 1970s a series of cultural centers were planned for the Burgenland, the economically weak, easternmost Austrian state on the border to Hungary. The Mattersburg Cultural Center was the first of these projects and thus essentially a mode…

Pragati Maidan

The complex was built in celebration of the 25th anniversary of India’s independence. Its monumental shapes and high tech appearance are supposed to represent the rapid development and modernization of the country. The lattice is rendered in cast-…

National Sports Complex

One of the biggest projects by Vann Molyvann: A stadium (84.000–100.000 seats), a sports hall (8000 seats) and a swimming compound (4000 visitors), surrounded by cooling water basins. Special thanks to Claus Donau, Basel.

Tricorn Centre

A shop and market centre built on a series of concrete decks surrounding a central plaza: ground level, pedestrians and retail shops; first deck, wholesale market; second deck, parking. The structures above the second deck – flats, multistorey p…

National Theatre

The theater forms an “urban landscape” with its solid towers and interlocking terraces. In 1988 it triggered an architectural debate when Prince Charles said it was a clever way of building a “nuclear power station in the middle of London without …

La Pyramide

As a counter concept to buildings in the International Style of the day also found on the Ivory Coast, which were not really best suited to the local climate with their sealed glass façades, Olivieri conceived the market-like shopping mall with an open…

Teacher Training College

For this university complex consisting of a library, seminar rooms and a main building, the idea of footpaths on stilts is taken to the extreme. Here, the footpaths cross roads, ponds and canals.Molyvann advanced Le Corbusier’s sculptural design langu…

Robin Hood Gardens

With this sculptural megastructure the Smithsons turn away from the original brutalism. The “streets in the sky”, basically networks of elevated walkways, go back to their Golden Lane project from 1952, but are not as integrated into the surrounding…

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