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Year: 1961
Campus “auf den Lahnbergen”, Philipps-Universität Marburg
The campus was built using a newly developed system which radically systematized and standardized all involved parts. It remained the only large scale project using this “Marburger Bausystem”.
St. Gertrud
Böhm’s first big concrete church with a tent roof was built in a vacant lot between residential buildings. The free-standing tower and three narrow gable walls recede from the street line. The adjacent community center was also planned by Gottfri…
Stadttheater
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Stadttheater Ingolstadt
With its basic polygonal structure the theater was often mentioned in contemporary literature as an example of how architecture can blend with its surroundings, unlike the International Style buildings, that many perceived as decontextualized structures…
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…
Lillington Gardens
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Wolfson Institute, Hammersmith Hospital
The building consists of two main volumes. On top of a lightweight concrete base with large ribbon windows sits a massive exposed concrete block with a more complex geometry that appears from all sides.
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…