Archives: Brutalisms

Sirius

Besides the built residential block a commercial block was never realized. Multiple block and apartment sizes were designed to house aged residents as well as families.

WIFI (Institute for Economic Development) with Dormitory Tower

The key requirement for this institute was a high degree of functionality while keeping the structure as flexible as possible to respond to an ever-changing program. This is achieved with a multi-wing floor plan. The most characteristic design feature a…

Center of Home Design (D?m bytové kultury – DBK)

Quite unusually for a project built in a communist country, this house’s design was implemented without a preceding competition and was appointed directly to the Machonins by the owner of the biggest furniture company. Here the Machonins first used…

State Archives Baku

The massive, monumental structure loses any remaining influences of Soviet Realism and appears in a thoroughly abstract design. A stark cube is supported by a highly sculptural base which is mainly structured by its prominent window frames.

Peoples’ Friendship Palace (today Istiqlol Palace)

After a severe earthquake in 1966 Uzbekistan was supported extensively by its neighboring countries. The People’s Friendship Palace was built to commemorate these events. Among other things it houses a large concert hall. The design in the shape …

AT&T Longlines Building (33 Thomas Street)

All aspects of this high-rise are tailored to the special needs of the equipment used by this phone and data-routing control center. Windowless facades clad in granite, especially high stories designed also to bear great loads and large ventilation open…

Temple Street Parking Garage

Starting in 1954, New Haven was completely transformed in order to create what called a “model city” The parking garage was part of that program. Its sculptural character was intended to convey a sense of modernity and mobility. Moreover, the buildi…

Boston Government Service Center

The complex is home to a labor office, municipal administration offices and a psychiatric clinic including a chapel. Another wing, as well as a high-rise were never realized. Rudolph references the façade structure of the neighboring Boston City Hall, …

Habitat 67

On the occasion of Expo 67 in Montreal Safdie designed this landscape-like residential estate, consisting of 354 elements, as an exemplary project for new concepts of dwellings that drew on the insights of the Metabolists. Here, architecture is grasped …

House of Soviets

Erected on the grounds of Königsberg Castle, which had been blown up, the House of Soviets was intended to double up as the seat of the municipal government and the Communist Party. This dual usage was expressed by the two wings. Given the stylized fac…

The Vandenhaute-Kiebooms House

From the mid-1960s onwards the architect realized a series of dwellings, as well as a church, whereby the interior in each case is rendered completely in exposed concrete. In this early residence, there are no separate rooms. The kitchen, bedroom and ba…

Barbican Estate

The Barbican is a veritable icon of Brutalism. Apparently the Queen didn’t have any problems with the Brutalist aesthetics of this giant complex, when she called it “one of the modern wonders of the world” during its inauguration. The Barbican is…

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 261 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 480 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 514 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 642 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 137 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 172 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 256 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 151 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 98 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 168

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