Year: 1955

Siedlung Halen

The 78 residential units, each only 4 or 5 meters wide, were erected in a section of woods outside Bern that the architects had themselves acquired. The village-like structure and the intelligent design of threshold spaces made a new contribution to den…

Langham House Close (Ham Common)

Concrete and brick run from the outside through to the inside. In the apartments, the fireplace wall is sculpted using concrete and brick. For Banham it was a brutalist project. However, Stirling rejected this label for his designs.

Milwaukee County War Memorial

Wolfgang Pehnt cited the Milwaukee County War Memorial in his essay “Was ist Brutalismus?” (“What is Brutalism?”) from 1960 as an example for the global spread of Brutalism. The building separates three functions in three spaces: A platform, hou…

Orphanage

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Needler Hall, Hall of Residence, University of Hull

Like the rest of the campus buildings the Hall of Residence is traditionally rendered in brick. However here it is used in a modern way and complemented by exposed concrete elements, resulting in an unmistakingly Brutalist design.

Cumbernauld Town Centre

This was the first stage of an unbuilt linear megastructure running alongside and over the main road on the ridge at the centre of town. When opened in 1967, it contained offices, a hotel, a shopping mall, a library, recreation and community fac…

Westhausen Cemetery Mourning Hall

After the AfE Tower was demolished and Historisches Museum and Technisches Rathaus both torn down, it is one of the last surviving brutalist buildings in Frankfurt/Main. The long wall that flanks the path of the mourners (designed by artist Otto Herbert…

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