Year: 1962

Vele di Scampia

With originally seven stepped blocks, the “Sails of Scampia” were one of the largest social housing projects in Italy. Given that most of the service facilities, such as stores and kindergartens were never realized, the complex swiftly fell into dis…

Law and Education Tower (Pappas Law Tower), Boston University

The 18-floor tower was designed by Spanish architect Josep Lluís Sert as a cast in place concrete structure with precast infill panels. Known on Boston University campus as the Pappas Law Tower, the building holds an auditorium, classrooms, moot courtr…

Ulster Museum Extension

The architect’s choice of façade ingeniously combines the extension wing with the classic main building , creating a transition that is almost as ironic as the later post-Modernists: yet interweaving and separation are harmoniously deployed in a game…

City Hall

Böhm adds a concrete castle to the historic Bensberger castle. It even features a turret that houses the stairs and an elevator shaft. As in Neviges, the concrete is interpreted here as a rock and “second nature”. It is conceivable that the edifice…

City Hall

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Casa Corinna

The rigorous, interlocked cubes define the villa outside as well as inside while integrating the building into the Swiss Tessin landscape. The hierarchies between load bearing and infill elements are accentuated by the alternation of exposed concrete an…

High School / Aula Hückelhoven

In the year of its inauguration the project was awarded for „exemplary school building“ and published internationally. The overall image is characterized by the sculptural use of raw concrete, continuing from the exterior to the interior. With its l…

Nichinan Cultural Center

Here, Kenzo Tange created a crystalline internal space by opting for polygonal wall structures. The powerful concrete volumes are also an hommage to the cliffs on the coasts in the region. Here, concrete seems to be a “second nature”, albeit this is…

St. Nicolas

Especially craggy example of Förderer’s approach to designing buildings as large sculptures. His work straddles 1960–1978. Mostly he created churches and schools before abandoning the profession. He went on record saying that this kind of architect…

Boston City Hall

The city hall sparked a real controversy in the trade press world-wide only shortly after the ribbon was cut. Like Rudolph’s Boston Government Service Center  the building is part of the Boston masterplan developed by I. M. Pei. The city hall’s sh…

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