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Jennie King Mellon Library, Chatham College
Four large tower structures flank the library building that takes Modernist aesthetics of receeding and protruding cubic elements to a Brutalist extreme. The inverted pyramid scheme and window designs are reminiscent of La Tourette. The monumental stone…
Maison Dessauvage
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Casino (Kurhaus)
Special thanks to Thomas Prenosil.
Hügelhaus
Designed as “single family houses on storeys” this cooperative project includes apartments of many sizes to allow for a diverse variety of resident types. Every apartment has its own garden-like terrace. (Special thanks to Alexander Kleinsch…
Law and Education Tower (Pappas Law Tower), Boston University
The 18-floor tower was designed by Spanish architect Josep Lluís Sert as a cast in place concrete structure with precast infill panels. Known on Boston University campus as the Pappas Law Tower, the building holds an auditorium, classrooms, moot courtr…
Koospol Building (today: Cube Office Center)
The building was originally occupied by Koospol, the foreign trade business of Czechoslovakia. Since 1989 it has been home to large international firms most notably T-Mobile and Citibank. The panel construction consists of more than 20.000 m² of usabl…
Housing Complex Moll (Wohnanlage Moll)
Ackermann’s concept differs from the neighboring perimeter developments by removing the houses from the main street. By continuously offsetting multiple smaller exposed concrete volumes the four to eight story exposed concrete buildings create a dynam…
Metropolitan Correctional Center
The Metropolitan Correctional Center is a prison built as a high-rise.
Soldier’s House (Beit Hachyal)
The complex is a hostel for soldiers. While the lower block houses facilities like a library, classrooms, a synagogue, offices and a banquet hall, a four story block above it contains the dorm rooms. Elevators and the chimney are housed in the prominent…
Ulster Museum Extension
The architect’s choice of façade ingeniously combines the extension wing with the classic main building , creating a transition that is almost as ironic as the later post-Modernists: yet interweaving and separation are harmoniously deployed in a game…
Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago
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Josef und Eva Hellenthal Residence
The house is reminiscent of early projects from Le Corbusier or Giuseppe Terragni. However Lüth omits the white plaster for raw exposed concrete.
Museum Lehmbruck
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Church of Reconciliation (Versöhnungskirche)
The craggy, raw exposed concrete exterior is reminiscent of rock structures. The church can house up to 400 people and is complemented by secondary buildings for a parish hall and rectory. The irregular trapezoid floor plan and the diagonal positioning …
Keeling House
Banham took this complex as an example for new trends in building in clusters.
Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de la República
The School is an extremely early South American example of the extensive use of exposed concrete. The layout permits the rooms to be used flexibly. Some of the structures recall factory buildings, in other words anticipating the anonymous formal languag…
Women’s National Democratic Club Annex
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Kirsch Home
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Clowes Memorial Hall and Opera House, Butler University
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