The building counts as one of the earliest examples of Brutalism in Victoria. Massive polygonal exposed concrete volumes are cantilevered and recessed into distinctive shapes.
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Nagoya University Toyoda Memorial Hall
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Student Residence, Ben Gurion University
Apartments of different sizes are provided for different study phases. From large communal apartments for 12–18 students for the early orientation phase, via medium-sized flats for 6–8, to ones for 2–4 inhabitants for students nearing graduation a…
Church of Reconciliation (Versöhnungskirche)
The church on the grounds of the former concentration camp is half underground. A gesture of humility, the result of discussions on the role of the Protestant Church during the Third Reich. An example of concrete as a metaphor for nature: building and s…
Metropolitan Festival Hall
The Festival Hall is Japan’s first concert hall. In order to blend better into the surrounding parklands, the complex was kept as low as possible. The heavy cornice and roof superstructures are reminiscent of the oeuvre of Le Corbusier, for whom Maeka…
Balfron Tower
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Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Center (today: Yamanashi Cultural Center)
The building is grouped around 16 cylindrical service shafts that house elevators, stairwells, air conditioning, etc. With its free open-plan spaces and the fluid transition to the urban space outside it is also classified as a Metabolist edifice. The b…
Park Hill
With this building, the architects, including two students from Peter Smithson’s class at the AA, realized the “streets in the sky” idea from their teacher’s “Golden Lane” project: The apartments are accessible from several open access route…
Trellick Tower
Trellick Tower is a bit the big brother of the Balfron Towers, which were erected shortly beforehand. It is one of the last giant British residential towers to be realized before the Oil Crisis. Its characteristic: the separate lift and service tower. A…
Central Library, University Tel Aviv
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Lillington Gardens
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National Theatre
The theater forms an “urban landscape” with its solid towers and interlocking terraces. In 1988 it triggered an architectural debate when Prince Charles said it was a clever way of building a “nuclear power station in the middle of London without …
Alton Estate West
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Teacher Training College
For this university complex consisting of a library, seminar rooms and a main building, the idea of footpaths on stilts is taken to the extreme. Here, the footpaths cross roads, ponds and canals.Molyvann advanced Le Corbusier’s sculptural design langu…
Vivarium Zoo Basel
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Begrisch Hall, Bronx Community College, City University of New York
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Salk Institute
As one of the most prolific mid-century architects, Louis Kahn is usually not categorized as Brutalist. However many facets of his style, especially his love for exposing the building’s structure and building materials fit squarely into Brutalist conc…
Alley Theatre
Franzen used to study under Breuer and Gropius at Harvard. The author Klaus Herdeg took the Theatre as example for the “American deterioration” of the Bauhaus legacy and called the building emblematic for the aestheticization of the Bauhaus formula….
Berkeley Library Trinity College
The elders of Trinity College Dublin wanted a building that spoke to the 20th century as characteristically as its neighbours the Old Library and Museum Building did to the 18th and 19th centuries respectively. And speak to the 20th century it certainly…
Simon Fraser University
The campus was established in 1963 and lies on a rise on the outskirts of Vancouver. The buildings are relatively flat and in part terraced to blend with the surroundings. The most prominent structures: the Academic Quadrangle and the W.A.C. Library, of…