This school building, nicknamed “The Ship”, was designed and built as a school for Lower Technical Studies: mechanics, blacksmith, electrician, plumbing etc. It is obviously built after Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation. On the roof there is th…
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Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges, Yale University
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Pastoor van Arskerk
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Luna Hall
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Uruguayan Embassy (today: Faculty of Medicine)
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Maihaugen Museum
Banham writes: “The museum might well be regarded as an attempt to find an ideal solution for a difficult site, and it sports a certain amount of ‘brut’ concrete on its exposed roof-slabs. But in a world of architecture as small as that in Norway,…
St Bride’s Roman Catholic Church
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Apollo Pavilion (Pasmore Pavilion)
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St. Peter and Paul Church (Cathedral of Clifton)
The central sculptural structure that towers up creates a shaft of space inside, which is both the sanctuary area and the primary source of light, setting an example to be followed, for example in St. Matthew’s in Birmingham or St. Paul’s in Tower H…
Alumni Memorial Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Influential forerunner of Brutalism. Banham describes it as the first-ever brutalist building because of its ascetic style and highly visible materials.
Behavioral Sciences Building, University of Illinois
Structuralism? Or Brutalism after all? The university building arose as the result of Netsch’s “network theory”. The ground plan seems to be the direct translation of a planning diagram. Inside, there are numerous different types of areas associat…
Conference Center UNESCO
Breuer’s folded concrete walls had been massive and used coarse shuttering in St. John’s Abbey Church, whereas in the UNESCO auditorium the sections are smaller and more refined. At the same time, the structure gets truly celebrated, as the particip…
Student Dormitories, Tel Aviv University
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Secondary School (Smithdon High School)
This was the first edifice to visualize the concept of Brutalism with a built structure, at least in terms of Reyner Banham’s definition. Characteristically, the interior fit-out relies on prefabricated, customary industrial products that are utilized…
Schreiner Building
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City Hall
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Bilal Mosque
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Societeit Minerva
The hall of student fraternity Minerva is characterized by angular volumes and the exposed concrete frame. The unfinished concrete shows prints of the wooden moulds that were used to cast the concrete blocks. The description of the heritage listing note…
Post Office
This building is one of a range of similar post offices in the bavarian countryside (for example in Regen). However this example is still virtually unchanged with the exposed concrete being in remarkable good condition to this day. Notable design featur…
High School Haus Cleric (Kantonsschule)
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