Archives: Brutalisms

Ludwigskirche

As with Madonna dei Poveri in the interior, the consistent unmasked use of concrete and brick emphasizes the materials. The result conveys a kind of aesthetics of asceticism.

Peace Church (Friedenskirche)

Exposed concrete is shaped to a massive monolith with prominent folds. Today’s white paint together with the “imaginative” solar panels severely change the original character of the building.

Colony Square

Colony Square was one of the first multi-use developments in the southeastern United States. A five-hundred room hotel and two office towers are directly connected to a sky lit atrium. At the rear are residential condominium buildings of compatible desi…

Lambeth Towers

The ten story high rise features maisonette apartments, which is relatively unusual for rapidly built, affordable social housing. The complex appearance of the outer structure avoids the monolithic tendencies of similar social housing slabs built at the…

Central Post Administration Building Post-Pyramide

In the 1970’s, the building, known as “Post-Pyramid” in the vernacular, was built in the “City Nord”. The design of the new office district, located between the airport and the city centre in the north of Hamburg, was based on…

City Hall

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Flatel Cassiopée Hotel

The hotel is located in Saint Gilles, one of the 19 municipalities included in the Brussels Capital Region. The building deeply contrasts its surrounding fabric, composed mainly by houses dating from the end of the 19th century. The concrete structure s…

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