Year: 1964

Ferantov Vrt Residential and Commercial Complex

The complex comprises of multiple structures that span a whole block and incorporate two 19th century apartment buildings. The characteristic round section references a historic forum located there before. Although it is a mixed use project with shops a…

Addition to the Slovak National Gallery

The museum’s extension prominently protrudes from the adjacent older, lower buildings. Seemingly shoved into the previously empty site it literally overshadows the old part of the gallery which stems from the late 19th century. The cantilevered f…

Luna Hall

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Fitzwilton House

Commissioned by Sir Basil Goulding, businessman and art collector, to a design by English architects, Shoolheifer & Burley. Fitzwilton House was built as offices for Goulding’s businesses and included specially commissioned artworks by Irish and …

Whitney Museum of Art (today The Met Breuer)

This monumental building is clad in granite, isolating itself from the surrounding city. The exterior is shaped like an inverted ziggurat at the front side with few prominent trapezoid windows. On the inside the exhibits are framed by raw exposed concre…

Hotel Thermal

Due to the success of the Czechoslovak new wave film in the 1960s, the party at power wanted to promote the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to compete with other European film festivals. The Hotel Thermal therefore was built to demonstrate cutt…

Casa Andreis

A Brutalist interpretation of Baroque. Portoghesi did several studies on the work of Michelangelo at the time, which directly influenced this design. The house responds directly to its surroundings and appears like a sculpturar labyrinth with its dynami…

Butantã Houses / Casa Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

The project consists of two almost identical twin houses built next to each other for Rocha himself and his sister. Communist da Rocha wished to create a design that flew in the face of the villas of the middle classes and therefore opted for a free lay…

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