It is only mentioned briefly in the current Paul Rudolph monograph, but thanks to countless articles on it, among others in the “New York Times”, is among the most discussed brutalist buildings at present. The ignorance shown by the public client an…
Year: 1963
Temple de Fontenay
Rising above a square floor plan, this massive exposed concrete structure is shaped like an inverted pyramid stump. Twin concrete slabs perforate the monolithic façades, whose simplicity is counterbalanced with the adjoining relieved, free standing wall.
Konvikt der Kantonsschule (Boarding School)
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Balfron Tower
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St. Rita Church (Sint-Ritakerk)
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St. Klemenz
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Simon Fraser University
The campus was established in 1963 and lies on a rise on the outskirts of Vancouver. The buildings are relatively flat and in part terraced to blend with the surroundings. The most prominent structures: the Academic Quadrangle and the W.A.C. Library, of…
Iwata Girls High School
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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…
Nuffield Transplantation Surgery Unit (Western General Hospital)
Opened in 1968, the building’s sculptural forms seem to evoke the pioneering forms of organ transplant surgery it contained as well as the technologically driven “white heat” modernity espoused by the Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Santos Technical High School (later: Escola estadual Acácio de Paula Leite)
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St. Bernadette
The design is based on Virilio’s photographs of the bunkers that form the Atlantic Wall. The military example is adopted so directly that the building remained unique and did not become an archetype. It does however broach the question whether many sc…
Andrews Building, Scarborough College (today University of Toronto)
The Andrews Building forms the cornerstone for the then newly established first satellite campus of the University of Toronto. With all the main pathways on the inside, its façade design and its meandering footprint the building responds exceptionally …