Tag: Brutalist
100 cursed places found
Hypogeum of via Dino Compagni
The Via Dino Compagni Hypogeum or Via Latina Catacomb is an underground cemetery on via Dino Compagni in Rome, near via Latina, in the Appio-Latino...
Alice Tully Hall
is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Friedrich Steinberg, Herrmann&Co. Hat Factory
This is the first industrial plant built by Mendelshon.
Evangelical church in Simmering
The evangelical church with community hall and youth room was built with the most modest means on a particularly small plot of land (20X24m) in the midst...
The Yacht House
The building structure is arranged in a taught discipline of columns on a 3.7m grid.
Churchill War Rooms
London The underground bunker rooms in Whitehall, London , which served as the secret headquarters for Winston Churchill and his war cabinet from where...
Tafjord
The site of yet another disastrous landslide causing a tsunami in a fjord in Norway (cf.
Netherdale
is a grandstand built between 1963 and 1965 as part of the Gala Stadium sports complex.
Ligatne Soviet bunker
A marvellous Cold War relic from the Soviet era in Latvia – a formerly secret government bunker from where the Soviet administrative affairs were supposed...
Oks House
The Oks house is located in the town of Martinez, in the outskirts of Greater Buenos Aires.
Rascainfierno (Hellscraper)
“This is a single space of 8 meters height without walls or windows.
Glenkerry House
is a Grade II listed housing block on the Brownfield Estate in Poplar, London, England, designed by the studio of the controversial Brutalist architect...
Temple Street Parking Garage
“When the New Haven parking garage was being constructed, the remainder of the buildings in the adjacent blocks was not determined.
9th Fort
and Monument, Kaunas The top dark site in the area of Kaunas , Lithuania , hands down. In fact it's three sites in one, as it were.
Villa Van Wassenhove
In 1972, Juliaan Lampens received the commission from Albert Van Wassehove, a professor with interest in art and architecture, to build a house in middle...
The Retreat
“We wanted to ensure that all the interior spaces maintained a connection with the landscape and, in particular, with the river running beneath the site.”...
Frontón Recoletos
The design of Torroja to cover the rectangular space of the court and grandstands, with dimensions of 55 m long by 32.5 m wide, is the most innovative...
Club of Professionals
The architectural problem was the construction of a social headquarters for a group of professionals from the University of Cartagena, with a fairly low...
Cristo de las Noas
El Cristo de las Noas, located on the Cerro de las Noas hill, in the Mexican city of Torreón, Coahuila, is a large sculpture by Vladimir Alvarado,...
Two single-family houses
A friend of mine had bought a leftover piece of larger construction site, a trapezoidal parcel, and wanted to build a house on it.
Haus zur Bastei
Completed in 1955 as a nine-storey offices tower, the new building was the first skyscraper in downtown Zurich.
Grenoble Architecture School
“The definition of a New Brutalist building derived from Hunstanton and Yale Art Centre, above, must be modified so as to exclude formality as a basic...
Virgilio Barco Library
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Tentative d’Épuisement” , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
The central memorial space dedicated to commemorating the A-bombing of Hiroshima .
Brantford City Hall
is the home of the municipal government of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The building is located at 100 Wellington Square.
Maarjamäe memorial complex
There are three distinct points of interest here.
Das Züblin-Haus
One has lost the reference to the environmental context by increasing the isolation of the building through symmetries and repetitions.
Seaplane Harbour
museum A modern, award-winning, recent addition to Tallinn 's portfolio of attractions. The Seaplane Harbour Museum is housed in a huge three-domed hangar.
Oberwil Blaues Haus
The parcel is situated in a typical Swiss neighbourhood of single-family houses, on a gentle slope in Oberwil, a suburb of Basel.
10 Murray Street
was the address of the former State Offices building in Hobart, Australia, and the name by which the building was frequently known.
Catedral Metropolitana de Managua
“In 1972, the City of Managua was destroyed by an earthquake, as was the Cathedral.
School El Pinarillo
This article has been elaborated with images and texts given by the architect Ángel Verdasco . We would like to thank him for his help and kind assistance.
Laboratories for the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
The Faculty of mechanical engineering is composed of several interconnected pavilions of two-three storey high.
Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower)
consists of a structural steel frame that was pre-assembled in sections and then bolted in place on the site.
Haus Dr. Allemann
The second and last exposed concrete structure by Rudolf Olgiati.
Mcmath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Glowing like an American Stonehenge, this giant, upside-down concrete “V” looks like a tribute to the Sun God, which in a sense it is.
From urbanism to “interiority”: Nuestra Señora de la Luz Church
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Tentative d’Épuisement” , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
1000 Sherbrooke West
(formerly known as Centre Mont-Royal and Place Internationale de l'Aviation) is a 28-storey, 128 m (420 ft) skyscraper at 1000 rue Sherbrooke Ouest...
Andersgrotta, Kirkenes
Andersgrotta Kind of a cross between a cave and an underground bunker in Kirkenes , northern Norway .
Christ the Redeemer
(Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by...
Notre-Dame à Royan
The architectural program of the church of Notre Dame, in Royan, responds to a classical concept.
Department of Housing and Urban Development Headquarters
With an “X” geometry, the Marcel Breuer building is open to the DC urban fabric with a double symmetry.
Skopje
The capital city of the North Macedonia (formerly "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia") in the southern Balkans has at least two sights that put in on...
Escola Jardim Ipê
“Jardim Ipê School, located on a residential area within the car industry belt, expected in its programme development eight classrooms, social common...
Jurys Inn Birmingham
The Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham is a hotel on Broad Street, Birmingham, England.
Brunaupark
is located at an important topographical interface between the city and the countryside. It acts as a hinge between the Binz district and the Allmend.
Row House in Sumiyoshi
(住吉の長屋, Sumiyoshi no Nagaya), also called Azuma House (Japanese 東邸), is a personal residence in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Fukuro-machi Elementary School Peace Museum
The preserved section of a school building that was exposed to the A-bombing of Hiroshima .
Torres Blancas
is a mixed use concrete building in Madrid, Spain, designed in 1961 by Spanish architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.
Yad Vashem
This is the Holocaust memorial site in Israel , namely in Jerusalem , to the west of Mt Herzl: a hilltop 'national cemetery', 'Mount of Remembrance',...
Eastgate Centre
Sustainable architecture must satisfy the needs of present users without diminishing the prospects of future generations.
Scotland's secret bunker
Scotland's Secret Nuclear Bunker A no longer quite so secret former government nuclear bunker in Scotland, Great Britain , that has been opened to the...
United States Pavilion – Osaka 70
Engineer: David Geiger-Horst Berger. The U.S. Pavilion at EXPO features one of the first air supported cable roofs.
Malcom Moos Health Sciences Tower
Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, informally known as Moos Tower, is a building on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis,...
Zacherlhaus
Johann Evangelist Zacherl was the son of industrialist Johann Zacherl, who had amassed wealth and prestige through the manufacture and distribution of...
Piata Revolutiei Bucharest
Piata Revolutiei, Bucharest A square in central Bucharest – and the place where some of the most iconic footage of the Romanian revolution of 1989 was...
John P. Robarts Library
The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of...
222 Jarvis Street
is an office building on Jarvis Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The inverted-pyramid-shaped building contains ten storeys and was completed in 1971.
Church of San Carlo Borromeo
The church — known today as Santa Maria Annunciata — stands on property belonging to the San Carlo Hospital in Milan.
Armitalia Offices and Factory
The complex, located close to a motorway junction on the outskirts of Milan, consists of three buildings with heights and different features.
The Polygon, Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, Kazakhstan
The Polygon, Semipalatinsk test site - darkometer rating : formerly 10 - (see Top-20 list ) - but no probably only 6 or 7 ----------------------------...
Cameron Offices, Belconnen
The Cameron Offices are a series of former government offices commissioned by the National Capital Development Commission and designed by John Andrews in...
Autonomous House
On 100 acres of eucalypt forest at top of 60 m cliffs, 430 m above sea level. Spectacular views over the Hunter Valley wine region. No public services.
Breendonk
A former fortress, originally built as part of the defensive fortifications around the nearby city of Antwerp, Belgium .
33 Thomas Street
(also known as the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York...
Government Service Center
The Boston Government Service Center (BGSC) is a state government complex in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts.
Hutchesontown C
was a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
Knights of Columbus Building
The Knights of Columbus Building, in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic fraternal service organization, the...
Middelboe House
The Middelboe House, completed in 1953, straddles two properties and the accommodation is raised one storey to enjoy views over the Furesø lake – it...
La Coupole
This is one of the most massive relics that Nazi Germany left in France during its occupation of the country in WWII : a gigantic concrete dome under...
Kyungdong Church
The church is located in a crowded urban area. The inclined path to the church is made long so that people can become pious while they are waling the path.
Ecole d’Architecture de Nancy
The new architecture school in Nancy looks like a compact volume which occupies a square lot not far from Place Stanislas.
A pergola open to the fields (II)
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Attitude” , where we explore current works by contemporain architectes which, despite its...
Bateson Building
Although it is a complex mix of energy strategies, Site 1-A is a very clear statement architecturally.
Patinoire
The polysports hall of the Super-Lioran winter resort, located in a crater filled with aliuvionary deposits, consists of two clearly differentiated parts:...
Santo António Da Polana Church
The new Church of Polana is presented as a reference in the urban landscape, like one of the boldest models of brazilian modern architecture.
First Unitarian Congregational Society
In Hartford, Lundy organized the radial plan and structural solution for the meeting house around twelve concrete walls that rise out of the ground into...
Caracas Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts (Spanish: Museo de Bellas Artes or MBA) is an art museum in Caracas, Venezuela.
OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Hotel Palace, Haludovo
This article is part of Obscured by Clouds, a personal project curated by Biljana Janjušević about architectural heritage of Balkans region, with emphasis...
Shinjuku Ruriko-in Byakurenge-do
Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama received the commission to build a new Buddhist temple near Shijuku station, one of the busiest areas of Tokyo.
Allt-Erlaa
Perhaps the best-known example of a well-functioning public housing complex in Vienna, the Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa includes 3180 apartments, each with a...
Luangpho Yai
(Thai: หลวงพ่อใหญ่, pronounced [lǔa̯ŋ pʰɔ̂ː jàj]), also known as Phra Phutta Rattana Mongkhol Maha Munee (Thai: พระพุทธรัตนมงคลมหามุนี, RTGS: Phra...
Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria
The Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Паметник 1300 години България), also known as the Founders of the Bulgarian State Monument (Паметник на...
Kailashnath Mahadev Statue
(Nepali: कैलाशनाथ महादेव) is the tallest Shiva statue in the world. It is currently the fifth tallest Hindu deity statue.
Pavlodar
Kazakhstan The capital of the province of the same name in the north-east of Kazakhstan .
The Motherland Calls
(Russian: Родина-мать зовёт!, romanised: Rodina-mat' zovyot!, lit.
Baynard House
is a brutalist office block in Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars in the City of London, occupied by BT Group.
Marienfelde refugee camp memorial museum
A specialized memorial museum on the wider topic of divided Germany , and Berlin in particular, and especially on the issue of refugees from the GDR , who...
James V. Forrestal Building
The James V. Forrestal Building is a low-rise Brutalist office building in Washington, D.C.
George Sherman Union
The George Sherman Union (GSU) is the student union building at Boston University and Boston University Academy.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Ashgabat (but extra marks on the weirdness scale!) The capital city of Turkmenistan is one of the strangest cities in the world.
Gallowgate Twins
The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers were twin 31–storey brutalist tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow,...
Wolfschanze ('Wolf's Lair')
at Gierloz A complex of semi-destroyed bunkers in the north of Poland , infamous as the place where Adolf Hitler had his main headquarters during much of...
House in El Paular
Every image and text given by Angel Verdasco The purpose of this project is to build a holiday or weekend two storey-house.
Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum
A small museum in a preserved section of the original Honkawa school building, which, having been built of sturdy reinforced concrete, was one of the few...
City Hall of Bat Yam
The New City Hall of Bat-Yam, a mostly vacation town located to the south of Tel-Aviv, represents one of the most original and advanced projects of new...
Alexandra Road Estate
The Alexandra Road estate (officially the Alexandra and Ainsworth estate, but often referred to as Rowley Way, the name of its main thoroughfare) is a...
Vajont Dam, Italy
Vajont Dam This is a somewhat more obscure dark site, in northern Italy , but nonetheless the site of a major tragedy – partly natural, partly man- made –...
Villa E.1027
This article is part of the [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Marché aux Meubles, Transit-Mobilier – Furniture Store
This “furniture supermarket” symbolized the transformation of the lifestyle in France after May 1968.