Year: 1966

Church of Christ the King (Christkönig)

Planned as the second Catholic church in Saarlouis in response to the growing population. It is characterized above all by the irregular concrete blinds that also double up as supports.

Seidler House

Harry Seidler worked together with Marcel Breuer in New York for some time. Despite being located in an established suburb less than 15km north of Sydney, the Seidler House is hidden in a steep valley ensuring privacy and seclusion. It features split le…

Rank-Xerox-Hauptverwaltung

The administrative complex consists of multiple hexagonal segments, grouped around a core. The various parts are offset by half a level and connected with stairs. This split level layout creates a continuously ascending, spiral office space. With the su…

Thermal Bath Felsentherme

The thermal bath is partly built into the hollowed out mountains. The interior combines the rough surfaces of the rocks with concrete elements. (Special thanks to Norbert Mayr)

Citibank

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John Muir College

The John Muir College comprises nine Brutalist buildings. It is the second of six continuously occupied residential colleges at the University of California, San Diego. Its construction signaled the end to architect Robert Alexander’s master plan for …

Trellick Tower

Trellick Tower is a bit the big brother of the Balfron Towers, which were erected shortly beforehand. It is one of the last giant British residential towers to be realized before the Oil Crisis. Its characteristic: the separate lift and service tower. A…

Tricorn Centre

A shop and market centre built on a series of concrete decks surrounding a central plaza: ground level, pedestrians and retail shops; first deck, wholesale market; second deck, parking. The structures above the second deck – flats, multistorey p…

Robin Hood Gardens

With this sculptural megastructure the Smithsons turn away from the original brutalism. The “streets in the sky”, basically networks of elevated walkways, go back to their Golden Lane project from 1952, but are not as integrated into the surrounding…

Sea Ranch

This project is representative of the question whether some works made in wood should not be included in the Brutalist canon. Here, a love of massive sculpted volumes combines with the zest to render the materials visible and reveal the construction.

Tower House

On a triangular plot sized only 20.5 square meters, Azuma pre-empts the later popular Japanese mini-house type. The efficient use of space in downtown Tokyo was also a protest against the then rapid sprawl that was arising

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