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…
Year: 1962
Dartmouth Campus, University of Massachusetts
The complex interlocking frontage is very reminiscent of Rudolph’s design of that time for the Orange County Government Center.
Jesuit Monastery, (Jesuitenkloster Ordenshaus “Stimmen der Zeit”) (today: Apartment Building)
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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…
Katselas House
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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…
Lisbon Palace of Justice (Palacío de Justiça de Lisboa)
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City Hall
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Orlando Public Library
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Student Residences, University of Antananarivo
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High School Haus Cleric (Kantonsschule)
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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…
New Dining Hall, Campus Bockenheim, Goethe University Frankfurt
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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…
Realschule (Secondary School)
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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…
Pfingstbergkirche
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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…