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St. Nicolai Church

From the outside the Nicolai Church follows a classic modernist design approach. The load bearing frame and ceiling on the inside however consist of raw exposed concrete elements that anticipate future Brutalist sensibilities in a remarkable way. It was…

City Hall

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Sugden House

The developer was an engineer who worked for Ove Arup. The house does not disguise the coarse construction work on the inside, either: wood and brick. On the outside, it is also “modernist” (the refined industrial window profiles), “traditional”…

University of East Anglia (UEA)

As one of seven new universities built in the 1960s, the campus outside the town was designed from the bottom up. The ziggurat-like terraces with the student residences are integrated into the topography. Connected to them by a raised footpath, at the b…

Caisse d’Epargne

The Guggenheim-esque bank building is part of the large scale neighborhood development Meriadeck, which features a comprehensive elevated walkway system.

Jim Ellis Freeway Park

After a long, controversial planning period the park was built in 1976 amidst and on top of a large multi-level “knot” of roads. Taking from the surrounding concrete infrastructure, the artificial rocks are rendered as rectangular concrete volumes.

Bakkaflöt 1 House

Angular volumes structure the design of this flat building. The minimalist, introverted architecture is mainly rendered in exposed concrete and glass. on the outside. On the inside these materials are continued and combined with wood and iron.

Spa

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Clemens Sels Museum Neuss

A competition for the museum was held in 1963, after which the location was changed. The winning competitor Deilmann changed the plans accordingly in 1965, however it took until 1972 to get the approval for a state grant. Construction started in 1973, 1…

City Hall

Town hall replacing old town hall and adjacent buildings destroyed in 1945 British air raid. A competition was held between 1959 and 1963. Construction started in 1968.

John Muir College

The John Muir College comprises nine Brutalist buildings. It is the second of six continuously occupied residential colleges at the University of California, San Diego. Its construction signaled the end to architect Robert Alexander’s master plan for …

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