State: ENDANGERED

Schering Headquarters

Winner of a competition in 1968, the building combines a band-like structure (including a steel truss bridging Fennstraße with a deck level and four office floors built on top) with a tower of 16 floors hanging from two concrete shafts carrying elevato…

Public Safety Building

This Public Safety Building is an example how only a few prefabricated parts can suffice to create an unusually striking, brutalist facade.

Ottawa Public Library

The library is another example of the controversial reception of Brutalist architecture. On one hand it was named one of Ottawa’s three ugliest buildings, on the other hand it won the Award of Merit from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada…

Hôtel du Lac

The hotel is supposed to have served as inspiration for the Sandcrawler in Star Wars. A particularly brutalist feature are the starkly protruding stairs at the side.

Carrières Centrales Housing Project

The Smithsons compare this North African housing project with its socio-political intentions in the Golden Lane competition. Banham remarks: “The thin stick-and-matchbox aesthetic in which this ethic of permissiveness was offered in Morocco hardly acc…

Sanskar Kendra Museum

The Sanskar Kendra Museum was designed by Le Corbusier as a closed box elevated from the ground. On the roof is a pool that can be filled with water on a hot day. Le Corbusier imagined a poetic experiment: flowers and plants would be put directly on the…

Navrangpura Bus Stand

The façade of the Navrangpura Bus Stop functions as a huge billboard. The whole building has been totally covered over time by hand-painted advertisements. Under the layers of paint is a building designed by the architect Charles Correa. Nowadays the b…

University of Zambia

The campus runs along a central axis, which divides the complex into faculties and housing areas. The structure allows cross-wise expansions or lengthwise addition of new institutes or other facilities. Typical for the 1960s is the attempt to separate s…

St. Marien

The cantilevering confessional boxes are a special feature. Beyond, the church contains a winged altar dating from 1463.

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