Archives: Brutalisms

Seidler House

Harry Seidler worked together with Marcel Breuer in New York for some time. Despite being located in an established suburb less than 15km north of Sydney, the Seidler House is hidden in a steep valley ensuring privacy and seclusion. It features split le…

Hospital Oberwart

After a competition in 1971/72 the hospital was built in several phases with the nurses flats (images 2–5) completed in 1976, the main structures in 1982 and the final stages in the late 1980s. (Special thanks to Johann Gallis)

Kotva Department Store

Being in the historical city centre of Prague, the area designated for the new department store was quite complex. An architectual competition was organised in order to find the best idea for its architectual and urbanistic solution. The Machonins’ …

House of Arts (Dom Umenia)

The House of Arts (Slovak: Dom Umenia) is a cultural and social center situated in the city park at the bank of the river Váh in Pieš?any. It was the first Slovak theater building realized after World War II outside of Bratislava. Milu?ký claimed to…

Ramkrishna House

The somewhat vernacular architecture consists of two asymmetric brick “sails”, which are connected by a body of exposed concrete. The simple profile of the front collides with the compex back side which consists of a combination of geometric brick a…

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