Town Hall

Bands of exposed concrete, glass and dark steel alternate on the façade. With its Brutalist design language it is a radical departure from the traditional small town hall architecture with gabled roofs, plaster and flower boxes.

High School / Aula Hückelhoven

In the year of its inauguration the project was awarded for „exemplary school building“ and published internationally. The overall image is characterized by the sculptural use of raw concrete, continuing from the exterior to the interior. With its l…

Casa Andreis

A Brutalist interpretation of Baroque. Portoghesi did several studies on the work of Michelangelo at the time, which directly influenced this design. The house responds directly to its surroundings and appears like a sculpturar labyrinth with its dynami…

Nichinan Cultural Center

Here, Kenzo Tange created a crystalline internal space by opting for polygonal wall structures. The powerful concrete volumes are also an hommage to the cliffs on the coasts in the region. Here, concrete seems to be a “second nature”, albeit this is…

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.
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