Archives: Brutalisms

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

The art gallery, which was built at the same time as the neighboring Schmela Gallery is a great example of the Brutalist play with contrasting elements: The material’s roughness is being softened by the rounded edges while the “hovering” construct…

St Hallvard Church and Monastery

Lund + Slaatto chose the square floor plan and rectangular design language to respond to the surrounding housing blocks. The most unusual feature is the inverted, asymmetrical dome which supposedly arose from a certain kind of space age sensibility the …

Madonna dei Poveri

The dark nave contrasts with the brightly lit choir. For this church, the architects prioritized the effect the interior has over that of the exterior. In terms of layout, the church is in the tradition of basilicas. The open concrete frame and the no-f…

Norrish Central Library

The library resembles a brutalist version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Westhausen Cemetery Mourning Hall

After the AfE Tower was demolished and Historisches Museum and Technisches Rathaus both torn down, it is one of the last surviving brutalist buildings in Frankfurt/Main. The long wall that flanks the path of the mourners (designed by artist Otto Herbert…

Churchill College

This college is a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill and his belief in a scientific future. The requirement was a college for 60 fellows and 540 students. In the corner of the sloping site is a group of twenty Fellows’ flats, which was the first stage …

Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC)

The Conference Centre is an example of early African post-colonial buildings conceived by Scandinavian architects with no colonial legacy. Originally intended as a party headquarters it was converted to a conference center during the planning phase. Amo…

St. Nicolas

Especially craggy example of Förderer’s approach to designing buildings as large sculptures. His work straddles 1960–1978. Mostly he created churches and schools before abandoning the profession. He went on record saying that this kind of architect…

Boston City Hall

The city hall sparked a real controversy in the trade press world-wide only shortly after the ribbon was cut. Like Rudolph’s Boston Government Service Center  the building is part of the Boston masterplan developed by I. M. Pei. The city hall’s sh…

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