To take the strain off downtown, the Ihme center was designed as a high-density city-in-city concept with residential, office and commercial areas, and is the only project of its kind to ever be realized. The complex includes two residential towers, a h…
Year: 1971
Central Animal Labs “Mouse Bunker”, Freie Universität Berlin (Zentrale Tierlaboratorien “Mäusebunker”)
Part of a series of standalones for the Free University Berlin. The martial exterior is reminiscent of a naval ship or the Star Destroyer in Star Wars and stands in an oppressive relationship to the use of the lab for animal tests. Nicknamed the “Mous…
Peace Church (Friedenskirche)
Exposed concrete is shaped to a massive monolith with prominent folds. Today’s white paint together with the “imaginative” solar panels severely change the original character of the building.
Housing at Malviya Nagar
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Montreal Metro
The Metro was founded in the 1960s. For the 1976 Summer Olympics it was extended significantly. Among the newly built stations of that era (extending into the early 1980s) in particular are several significant examples of Brutalism. The most notable exa…
Assembly Rooms
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Office Building “Leeuwenburg”
Zanstra and his firm designed a number of large-scale office and public buildings in the Netherlands in the 1960s and 70s. The block was built from 1971 to 1977, has accommodated banks and offices in the past and is currently in use as the Faculty of Te…
Post Office
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The Savoy Centre
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Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de La Coruña
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Sacred Family Church (Chiesa della Sacra Famiglia)
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Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami
The Mailman Center is part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. It is connected to the smaller Debbie Building, which turns the sloped shape upside down.
Crematory
The Leinfelden-Echterdingen crematorium is another example of Brutalist sepulchral architecture. Most notable are five sculptural elements protruding towards the top which exhibit a certain kind of machine aesthetics.
Brixton Recreation Centre
As part of a large scale redevelopment scheme the center includes among other things swimming pools, gymnasia, squash courts, and a large shopping area. It was originally planned to be part of a larger system of raised walkways, adopting the Smithson…
St. Paul’s Cathedral
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AT&T Longlines Building (33 Thomas Street)
All aspects of this high-rise are tailored to the special needs of the equipment used by this phone and data-routing control center. Windowless facades clad in granite, especially high stories designed also to bear great loads and large ventilation open…