State: ENDANGERED

El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya

“El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya” in Caracas, Venezuela, would have been a spiral drive-in mall. Built between 1956 and 1960, El Helicoide’s construction flattened the hill “La Roca Tarpeya” into seven gradually decreasing terraces, surro…

Habiflex

Designed as an experimental apartment complex with dynamic floor plans, the building ultimately failed in its execution. Insufficient insulation, problems with humidity and years of mismanagement led to today’s dilapidated state.

Marxer Pharmaceutical Laboratory

Alberto Galardi designed this building as four connected volumes, all rendered in exposed concrete. Most notable are the concrete fins which create a grid prepending a glass façade while protecting the interior from the sun. This solution is reminiscen…

Collective Housing Tower Building “Romani?a”

With 73m and 22 floors it is the tallest building of Chisinau. Originally it was conceived as a clinic complex with a roof restaurant, movie theater and fitness facilities. However during contruction work the project was changed into a housing complex. …

Kulturzentrum Mattersburg

In the 1960s and 1970s a series of cultural centers were planned for the Burgenland, the economically weak, easternmost Austrian state on the border to Hungary. The Mattersburg Cultural Center was the first of these projects and thus essentially a mode…

National Sports Complex

One of the biggest projects by Vann Molyvann: A stadium (84.000–100.000 seats), a sports hall (8000 seats) and a swimming compound (4000 visitors), surrounded by cooling water basins. Special thanks to Claus Donau, Basel.

La Pyramide

As a counter concept to buildings in the International Style of the day also found on the Ivory Coast, which were not really best suited to the local climate with their sealed glass façades, Olivieri conceived the market-like shopping mall with an open…

Istituto Marchiondi Spagliardi

Viganò planned this gated institution for delinquent youths on the basis of a new pedagogic concept. Order is demonstrated by the building’s readily comprehensible inner logic and also by the fact that the materials used are plain to see and the pipi…

Negev Center

The center connects an interior, bazaar-like arcade with office spaces on the second floor and apartments on the third. Only a part was actually realized, which explains the abrupt closure on the east side. No real link to the city was ever forged. The …

City Hall

The city hall was already controversial while it was still under construction. Other buildings round the square that had been planned were never realized. The central atrium served along with the striking ventilators on the roof to enhance air circulati…

Hraiche Pool

Built in the mid to late 1960s, this pool complex is located on the outskirts of Tripoli, close to the sea and several satellite towns. Its most prominent features are a vast concrete landscape outer area and a folded plate wall, a static solution popul…

City Hall

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Bidura Children’s Court (Metropolitan Remand Centre)

The Bidura Children’s Court is a multi-storey, white off-form concrete building.  The building sits on a podium with two levels set below the ground. The upper levels step back from three of the site’s boundaries, further reducing the building�…

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