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Hutchesontown C
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Cho-no-ya, The Great Shrine of Izumo
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Guido di Tella Residence
The commission came from the art collector and maecenas Guido di Tella. Project collaborators were Luis Hevia Paul and Irene van der Poll. The house was built with several ramps tunnels. The only demand by the owner: an isolated studio, that could be…
Ayala Museum
The Ayala Museum is another example of the bad reputation of Brutalism. It has been demolished in 2001 to be rebuilt by the same architect. The new building however follows a very different design language. The original sculptural, interlocked, puristic…
Harumi Apartment Buildings
Banham emphasizes that the Harumi Apartments were actually built four years before Kenzo Tange’s Kurashiki City Hall. He uses the example to illustrate Maekawa’s pioneering role in Japanese brutalism.
Library, Crafton Hills Community College
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Lincoln Square Synagogue
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Usine et Centre de Recherche Thomson-Houston (later: Thales)
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Community Center Ellener Brok (Gemeindezentrum Ellener Brok)
Church with belfry, kindergarden and assembly rooms.
Christchurch-Lyttleton Road Tunnel Administration Building
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Stage Center (Mummer’s Theater)
The Mummer’s Theater distinguishes itself from earlier designs from Johansen. While early projects were simpler exposed concrete designs, the architect chose a more unconventional approach here. Not unlike the Smithson’s “as-found” aesthetics, J…
Birmingham Central Library
As part of a large scale redevelopment program the library was Europe’s largest non-national municipal library. For political and financial reasons most of the planned buildings were never realized. Prince Charles stated the building looked like�…
Extension to the Historisches Museum Frankfurt
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Sampson House
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Telecommunications Center (Fernmeldeamt)
The Telecommunications Center has been called an “eyesore” in the past and is another example of the lack of appreciation for Brutalist architecture in the general public as well as in the press. The building has been empty since Germany’s reu…
Wilhelm Nusselt Lecture Hall (Wilhelm-Nusselt-Hörsaal)
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Welbeck Street Car Park
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Technisches Rathaus
The architects won the competition in 1963 ahead of renowned architects such as Walter Gropius and Hans Scharoun. Due to various reasons however the winning design had been subsequently modified several times. Not long after the inauguration this led to…
Kröpcke-Center
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