Following a contest in 1975 construction started in 1978 and lasted until 1981. Today the building is being used as a multipurpose hall. The flights of seats in the main hall of this cultural center are terraced and subdivided into polygonal segments. …
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Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione
Playful division of the built volume, which resembles the ribs of a ship or the ribs of an aircraft. At the same time, Busiri Vici also designed various capricious and sculptural residences and commercial buildings.
Ministry of Highway Construction (today: Bank of Georgia)
The former Ministry of Transportation is prominently featured in a lot of books on Soviet architecture. It is reminiscent of El Lissitzkys Cloud Irons as well as Japanese Metabolists. Chakhava was the minister of transport and the building’s architect…
Brion Cemetery (Tomba Brion)
The cemetery is far too refined, indeed almost mannerist, to count as an example of brutalism. We have included it anyway to emphasize the immense fascination that the sculptural treatment of concrete had at the time.
Three Houses, Rebbergstrasse
A group of three exposed concrete residences in the spirit of Le Corbusier, built on a steep hill in Höngg, a district of Zurich. The group consists of the Demarmel’s own studio and two adjacent houses. The houses are accessible through a small path …
Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet
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Johannes XXIII
Designed by sculptor Josef Rikus, who says he only relied on architect Heinz Buchmann for the technical realization. On the interior, the spatial/conceptual idea of having the services held under a large concrete tree soon becomes apparent. The exterior…
Mourninghall, Kelkheim Cemetery
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Acland Burghley School
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Johnson Wax Office Building and Factory
In the 1960s the American firm Johnson Wax, producer of household cleaning supplies, decided to base its first European branch in the town of Mijdrecht in the Netherlands. Dutch architect Huig Maaskant was asked to provide an ‘unusual design’. Maask…
Student Housing
The complex provides affordable student housing in three high-rises plus interconnecting low-rises. The apartments consist of three floors at split-levels with the entrance being to the middle one.
Kongress am Park
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Andrew Melville Hall, University of St. Andrews
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Flaine
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St. Maximilian Kolbe
The church is built from concrete and yellow brick. Circulation, floorlayout and elevations are affected by its spiral form. The dynamically uprising expression is underlined by the tower’s likewise ascending joints which are, at the same time, th…
St. Elisabeth (today: Apartment Building “Church-Chill”)
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Stadhuis Terneuzen
Located on the dike in this port town, the town hall, which the locals refer to as a “Battleship”, is meant to emulate the notion of a ship’s bridge. The storeys each center on the core, revolving around it, set off by half a level in each instance.
Goetheanum
The building is usually classified as 1920s Expressionism. That said, with its sculptural use of cast in place exposed concrete could it not be termed proto-brutalist?
Ludwigskirche
As with Madonna dei Poveri in the interior, the consistent unmasked use of concrete and brick emphasizes the materials. The result conveys a kind of aesthetics of asceticism.
Geschäftshaus Volkswohl Bund Lebensversicherung
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