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Mesa Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
The unusual color of the exposed concrete was achieved by adding reddish sand and is intended along with the bush hammered surface to forge a link to the similarly colored backdrop of the Rocky Mountain crags. Antithetical to many other brutalist builds…
Keble College
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20th Century Building on South Hill Park, NW3
Banham terms this a brutalist example of a “a sudden upsurge of architectural quality in English domestic design”. The façade is reminiscent of Mies but on the garden side the exterior becomes a mix of exposed concrete, wood and visible brick.
Tower House
On a triangular plot sized only 20.5 square meters, Azuma pre-empts the later popular Japanese mini-house type. The efficient use of space in downtown Tokyo was also a protest against the then rapid sprawl that was arising
Pilgrimage Church (Wallfahrtsdom)
The Catholic pilgrimage church and the related cloisters arose in the small and primarily Protestant hamlet of Neviges. In Gottfried Böhm’s oeuvre there are many sculptural and cleft-looking concrete churches. Neviges is the largest, and is the secon…
Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center
With a library, a theater hall, a planetarium and many other facilities, the youth center is a multipurpose building of a quite considerable size. A projecting cornice cites the Festival Hall, completed one year earlier. The main section is rendered ent…
Rotaprint Administration Building
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Institute for Hygene and Microbiology (today: Institute for Hygene and Environmental Medicine), Freie Universität Berlin
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Crematory
The Leinfelden-Echterdingen crematorium is another example of Brutalist sepulchral architecture. Most notable are five sculptural elements protruding towards the top which exhibit a certain kind of machine aesthetics.
Civic Center Garath / St. Matthäus
For this project which consists of a church, chapel and retirement home, Böhm combined concrete and brick into a sculptural composition, playfully citing archetypal elements of medieval castle architecture: The retirement home, which surrounds the chur…
St. Don Bosco
While the exterior doesn’t appear particularily Brutalist, the central exposed concrete dome with its intentionally rough boardmarked concrete surfaces makes this church worth noting.
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
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North Building (today: Peter and Pat Cook Academic Hall), Grand Rapids Community College
The Building was the first new building of the Grand Rapids Junior College, which until then had only bought repurposed older, existing buildings. It initially housed general purpose classrooms, tech and health education labs, a library, a Student Cent…
Mémorial de la Résistance
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Norrköpings Stadsbibliotek (City Library)
The building was drawn by Swedish architect Sten Samuelson who was personaly aquinted with Louis Kahn. Some design choices that proved to be inflexible were met with initial criticism from the staff of librarians. The library is among the bigger in Swed…
Boarding School
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St. Mauritius
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Salter’s Hall
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AT&T Longlines Building (33 Thomas Street)
All aspects of this high-rise are tailored to the special needs of the equipment used by this phone and data-routing control center. Windowless facades clad in granite, especially high stories designed also to bear great loads and large ventilation open…