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…

Apartment Building (Pfäffikonstrasse 40)

The house was built by a local architect. Although the cube was well-proportioned, it was labeled as “ugliest house of Switzerland” by the readers of a national tabloid in 2012. Moreover, it was critizised early as an „invader“, not adeq…

Parking Garage

This car park was built with the Krupp-Montex modular building system, that was specifically designed for parking garages in 1966–1968. Special thanks to Richard Müller

Pragati Maidan

The complex was built in celebration of the 25th anniversary of India’s independence. Its monumental shapes and high tech appearance are supposed to represent the rapid development and modernization of the country. The lattice is rendered in cast-…

Tricorn Centre

A shop and market centre built on a series of concrete decks surrounding a central plaza: ground level, pedestrians and retail shops; first deck, wholesale market; second deck, parking. The structures above the second deck – flats, multistorey p…

Robin Hood Gardens

With this sculptural megastructure the Smithsons turn away from the original brutalism. The “streets in the sky”, basically networks of elevated walkways, go back to their Golden Lane project from 1952, but are not as integrated into the surrounding…

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