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“Maritime Terminal”, Zahka Hadid, Salerno, Italy.
Zaha Hadid’s work is characterized by fluidity, dynamism and unconventional forms. Hadid's buildings were often described as "neo-futuristic" and challenged traditional conceptions of what architecture should look like.
Commissioned in 2000, the Maritime Terminal in Salerno, Italy is inspired by the movement of water and waves, which is fitting for a terminal that serves as a gateway to the sea. The exterior of the terminal is characterized by its sinuous curves and fluid lines, which gives the building a sense of movement and dynamism. The white concrete exterior is punctuated by large windows that offer panoramic views of the sea and the city.
The main hall of the terminal is a large, bright open space and the ceiling is supported by a series of slender columns that give the space a sense of lightness.
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“Miniatures”, Frank Kunert
Model maker and photographer Frank Kunert explores the "absurdity of life" through his meticulous architectural models with a twist.
The German artist's handmade miniatures recreate seemingly normal scenes that, upon further inspection, reveal a surreal scenario.#utilitarianarchitecture #concrete #brutalism #brutalism #brutalismfriday #brutalisticarchitecture #architecture #concreteconstruction
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“Basilica Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tears” Sculpted by ANPAR
The Basilica Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tears envisioned by ANPAR architects is the largest pilgrimage church in Sicily. Like a frozen drop of water, the structure commemorates the 1953 miraculous tearing of a plaster effigy representing the Virgin Mary. The construction began in 1966 and took 28 years to fruition, and excavations revealed a VI century settlement on the site.
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“Palace of Assembly”, Chandigarh, India | Le Corbusier, 1962.
In 1947, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was commissioned by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to design a new legislative assembly building for Punjab. It was requested that the structure would be “unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol of the nation’s faith in the future.”
The structure of the hall resembles a box, with a portico on one side and concrete piers on the other. As a decoration, the façade bears a repetitive pattern. The roof was inspired by the structure of industrial power stations and cooling towers. To emphasise the entrance, Le Corbusier created an off-centre ceremonial pivoting door. Inside, there is a circular assembly chamber for gatherings. The Palace of Assembly was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.
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“Monument to the Resistance”, by Paolo Castelli (1967-1968), Macerata, Italy [Pic: Roberto Conte (2021)]
Located in central Italy, this 1960s monument commemorates the local resistance movement that fought against Nazism and Fascism during World War two.
Built in the same year of the Apollo 11 mission on the Moon, the monument connects the craters of the war fields of the past with the lunar crater of the future. The design implies the meaning of a changing era of humanity, from bomb craters to lunar craters, from the era of fighting for peace to the era of developing science, from past history to future projections.
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“Villa Gontero”, Cumiana, Italy. Carlo Graffi, Sergio Musmeci (1971)
The client, Riccardo Gontero, is a Turin entrepreneur, owner of the company Impresa Cementi Armati, a company that specializes in reenforced concrete . Relatively forgotten in the last couple of decades, ‘Villa Gontero’ has been carefully renovated in recent times.
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“St. Klemenz Church”, Bettlach, Switzerland
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“The Monitor Building at Beckton Sewage Treatment Works”
It wasn’t until the Great Stink of 1858 – a period of a few months in which hot weather made the stench of human waste and effluent in the Thames unbearable – that the government decided to work on a permanent and adequate underground sewerage system. In 1864, Joseph Bazalgette drew up a plan to construct a total of 1,182 miles of mains and street sewers to divert wastewater to the outskirts of London.
The Monitor Building at Beckton STW was commissioned in 1967 and designed by architects at the Public Health Engineering Department. The most striking aspect of its design are the four legs which support its raised structure, giving it the appearance of a large concrete quadruped walking across the works.
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“Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie” Fehling+Gogel, Berlin, 1966–74
Great importance was placed on the quality of the exposed concrete of the building shell. In order to obtain soft curves and a fine surface structure, attention was paid to particularly precise execution of the board formwork. This resulted in a consistent exposed concrete building that is unique in Berlin in such careful execution. The design responds to the neighborhood by gradually increasing the building masses and creating a five-story office and laboratory block with the front facing the old village center.
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“Johannes XXIII Church”, Heinz Buchmann and Josef Rikus, 1968, Cologne
The Johannes XXIII church inspires mixed feelings as ugly structure or masterpiece. While the exterior construction is dominated by concrete, the interior is much more complex, with coloured glass windows dipping the church in warm light. A rare example of unusual Catholic architecture, this is well worth a visit.
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“Maunsell Army Forts”, Guy Maunsell, Thames Estuary, 1942
Part of the Thames Estuary defense network, the anti-aircraft defense consisted of a cluster of seven stilted buildings surrounding a central command tower. Operational, catwalks connected the buildings. They were built on land and then transported to their watery homes. Originally there were three of these forts, but only two are left standing: the Redsands Fort and the Shivering Sands Fort.
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“Wotruba Church”, Mayer, Vienna Fritz Wotruba/Fritz Gerhard Mayr, 1964
An iconic brutalist design, created from 152 concrete blocks whose weight ranges from 1.8 to 141 tons. The idea of a church was first conceived by Fritz Wotruba in 1964 and the location was chosen separately, a relevant point as the current site was formerly home to Nazi barracks.
Wotruba, a sculptor attributed his inspiration for the church on his visit to Chartres Cathedral in France. The architect, Mayr, worked with Fritz Wotruba to bring his extraordinary sculptural brutalist design to life, creating a space that is equally a sacred space and a living sculptural tribute to Wotruba, who died before the project was completed.
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“Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP)”. One of San Paulo’s major architectural landmarks and one of the main attractions on Paulista Avenue due to its pyramid shape. The building is 325 feet high and is one of the largest buildings on the Avenue. The building was built by Rino Levi's architectural firm in 1979. In 1998, and redesigned by the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to include the construction of a cultural center on the ground floor.
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“Lycée Sainte Marie”, designed by Georges Adilon in La Verpillière, France, is an educational building built by raw materials such as concrete, wood, glass, and metal. The windows are designed especially to be unique to emphasize students’ uniqueness.
📸 Stefano Perego, Roberto Conte
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“North Christian Church” Eero Saarinen, 1959, Columbia, Indiana.
Saarinen was inspired by the steep steps at Angkor Wat and Borobudur and traditions that make a visitor interact with the architecture and gives a sense of magnanimity while entering the church. The odyssey from the exterior to interior is organically augmented to give worshippers a spiritual experience.
The use of earthy materials, grey slate floors, dark mahogany pews to the spirited formal geometries, the architecture strives to create a pious ambiance that is intimate and subliminal. The decompression of the chamber, grey slate floors, dark mahogany pews, and eerie natural lighting induce a sense of awe in the visitor.#1950s #utilitarianarchitecture #concrete #brutalism #brutalism #brutalismfriday #brutalisticarchitecture #architecture #concreteconstruction
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“Ventilation Shaft of the Arlberg Road Tunnel (1974-78) in Arlberg, Austria. Photo by Victor S. Brigola.
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“St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church”, designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard in 1964, about the same time Breuer designed the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Breuer's design for Saint Frances de Sales Church, along with his designs for another Catholic church in Collegeville, Minnesota, around the same time, revolutionized religious architecture. Located in Muskegon, Michigan
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“Brutalist Bus Stops”
Photographer Christopher Herwig spent 12 years, covering over 18,000 miles by car, bike, bus and taxi to find these Brutalist Communist relics.
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“Guesthouse of the Armenian Writers’ Union”, Gevorg Kochar and Mikael Mazmanyan, Sevan, Armenia, 1969
The Guesthouse is a model of early Soviet avant-garde ideals, utilizing abstract forms to represent social utopianism, creating a functional, progressive and egalitarian space that exemplified the ideals of the revolution.
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“Reading Pavilion”, Herzog & de Meuron, Jinhua Architecture Park, Jinhua, China, 2006
The geometric pattern is more than a mere veil. It was given depth to project into space and be converted into space in its own right. Projected from all sides of a cube, the pattern is a virtual spatial grid, being an infinite number of lines and points of intersection inside the geometric body.
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“The Bank of Georgia headquarters”, Architects George Chakhava and Zurab Jalaghania, 1975, Tbilisi, Georgia. Designed by the Ministry of Highway Construction of the Georgian SSR.
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“National Museum of Qatar” Jean Nouvel, French
The exterior consists of 539 disks, with 76,000 patterned cladding elements throughout; the interiors twist and turn, with the ceiling rising and dipping, constantly keeping visitors surprised through the eleven linked galleries.
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Various brutalist stairways and balconies.
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“Metropolis”, Fritz Lang's miniature movie set for "Metropolis" (1927) - in the German Cinema Museum, Berlin.
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“Makpetrol Gas Station”, Gjorgji Golev, 1973, Ohrid, North Macedonia
#modernism #socialistarchitecture #socmod #socialistmodernism #utilitarian-architecture #socheritage #brutalismfriday #brutalism #brutalisticarchitecture #architecture #architecturalphotography
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“The Bierpinsel”, or Beer Brush, a 47-metre tall brutalist tower on the Schloßstraße in Berlin Steglitz, was built between 1972 and 1976 by the architects Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte. The distinctive form was inspired by the silhouette of a tree.
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“Televizorke Building” Ilija Arnautović, 1970–1974, Belgrade, Serbia.
Residential complex in Blok 28. The name "televizorke" came up by the fact that the windows are shaped like TVs. Though huge and made out of only a few pre-made concrete elements, the façades of Televizorke are not boring due to a playful combination of windows and terraces.#socmod #socialistmodernism
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“Historical-Ethnographic Museum”, Osh, Kyrgyzstan; 1978; architect: K. Nazirov.
The National Historical and Archaeological Museum Complex Sulayman is a museum in Osh, Kyrgyzstan was established in 1949. The present museum building was completed during the Soviet era in 1978 to celebrate the 3,000th anniversary of the city of Osh.
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“Former Tuzla Bank, (Now NLB)”
Tuzla, BiH, 1977, Architect V.Stojanović#socmod #socialistmodernism #utilitarian-architecture #socheritage
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'Geisel Library’, William L. Pereira & Associates, La Jolla, California, 1970 Architect William Pereira was the creator of many a memorable building—the Transamerica Pyramid tower in San Francisco, CBS's Television City in Hollywood, and Pepperdine University in Malibu, to name a few. The unique futuristic design is representative of hands holding up books.
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'Creature of industry' Blast furnace and dust collector, Danetsk, Ukraine. by Czech photographer Viktor Macha
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“Fountain to José Martí”, a figurehead of Cuban independence, and the revolutionary leader Abel Santamaría, Santiago de Cuba.
photography by Matthew Connors#socmod #socialistmodernism #utilitarian-architecture #socheritage
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House Inside a Rock, Amey Kandalgaonkar has created renderings of House Inside a Rock, a concept for a modernist concrete house built within a giant rock.
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