Year: 1965

Brunel University Lecture Center

Already used in the movie “Clockwork Orange” as a dystopian film set the Lecture Centre is one of Great Britain’s earliest sculptural concrete monsters. It was realized on the campus of Brunel University founded in 1966, whose innovative design wo…

Central Post Office

One of several buildings that for a while gave the German Post Offices a kind of architectural corporate identity. Indoors, the rough concrete is combined with Pop elements in brash colors, its harshness thus toned down somewhat. The striking silhouette…

Morris A. Mechanic Theater

The theater was completed in 1967 as part of a larger urban renewal program for Baltimore’s downtown district. Although it opened to great fanfare, the theater attendance and programming steadily declined over the years. And, alas, like many brutalist…

Tobacco Monopoly Headquarters

The structure appears starkly monumental. Specified geometric brick elements define an architecture that appears like a fortress. In spite of prominent historic references and the lack of any revolutionary design features, the treatment of the material …

Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione

Playful division of the built volume, which resembles the ribs of a ship or the ribs of an aircraft. At the same time, Busiri Vici also designed various capricious and sculptural residences and commercial buildings.

Chorweiler Housing Estate

Part of a large housing estate, with a reliance on a small human scale. The fair-faced concrete was combined with Pop colors. Among other things inhabitants have complained about the overly idiosyncratic footprints that are almost inflexible – such as…

Clemens Sels Museum Neuss

A competition for the museum was held in 1963, after which the location was changed. The winning competitor Deilmann changed the plans accordingly in 1965, however it took until 1972 to get the approval for a state grant. Construction started in 1973, 1…

Wates Blocks

Using the prefab Wates concrete panel system, a total amount of eight very similar high rises have been built on four sites in London.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 633 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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