State: ENDANGERED

Police Station

The station was built with the Lancashire school prefab system named GRID. The system has been used to build stations in Skelmersdale, Morecambe, St. Helens, Preston and Wigan as well. These bulidings differ in the number of levels built, but are otherw…

Central Bank

The Central Bank of India sits on the corner of one of the most important road junctions in Ahmedabad. You are bound to pass this iconic building sooner or later when exploring Ahmedabad from the back of a rickshaw. It is located between the east bank o…

Vele di Scampia

With originally seven stepped blocks, the “Sails of Scampia” were one of the largest social housing projects in Italy. Given that most of the service facilities, such as stores and kindergartens were never realized, the complex swiftly fell into dis…

Rashad Shawa Cultural Center

Rare example of Brutalist architecture in the Palestinian territories. The two-story building was designed by Syrian architect Sa’ad Mohaffel and is located between Gaza’s old city and the beach. Named after the former mayor Rashad Al Shawa,…

Izbor Department Store

An excellent example of the utopian socialist buildings of former Tito-Yugoslavia, far from the boring and uninspired socialist prefab-building of the late 1980’s. The Department store forms a complete center with piazza and different urban situat…

Premabhai Hall

The Premabhai hall is located in the Old City of Ahmedabad. Due to its large dimension, the building is reminiscent of an ancient monumental sculpture. Doshi designed this post-Corbusian Brutalist piece of architecture in 1956 as a modern public theater…

Gun House

The appearance of the Gun House has completely changed over time as different tenants altered it to suit their own purposes. Initially it was planned as an office building for the Ahmedabad Rifle Association. The building consists of two separate blocks…

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