Archives: Brutalisms

Terrassenhaussiedlung

The Terassenhaussiedlung was a participative project: future residents were involved in the planning process. It consists of 522 flats in four blocks with 24 different typologies (stepped, maisonettes, ateliers, attics…). Every flat has a private ou…

Police Station

The station was built with the Lancashire school prefab system named GRID. The system has been used to build stations in Skelmersdale, Morecambe, St. Helens, Preston and Wigan as well. These bulidings differ in the number of levels built, but are otherw…

Hannah Playhouse (Downstage Theater)

The Hannah Playhouse was built to house Downstage Theatre Company with funds from a bequest provided by the late Sheilah Winn OBE (1917-2001). The auditorium, into the design of which Downstage Theatre designer Raymond Boyce (MBE Hon LitD) had substanti…

68th Precinct, NYC Police Department

“An aggressive, arbitrary, tricky, cubistic set of volumes and voids. In the loose civic commissions of the mid and late 1960s architectural histrionics were in favor, rather than any truly urbane attempts to blend into the scale and style of the …

Central Bank

The Central Bank of India sits on the corner of one of the most important road junctions in Ahmedabad. You are bound to pass this iconic building sooner or later when exploring Ahmedabad from the back of a rickshaw. It is located between the east bank o…

CGER (now BNP Paribas offices)

Marcel Lambrichs plays an important role in the post-war modernism period of Brussels and of Leopoldville (Congo). In Brussels he designed, together with Ricquier, Groupe Alpha, H. Van Kuyck and R. Schuiten, the Brussels administrative complex and the f…

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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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