The Smithsons are best known for their late-Sixties Robin Hood Gardens social housing project in Poplar. Demolition of the ...
Rising steeply above a ravine in the Hollywood Hills, Nina and Andreas Grueter's concrete home conjures a villain's lair in a James Bond thriller — John Lautner's Brutalist Elrod House in ...
Raleigh. Greensboro. Charlotte. The blocky buildings are all across the state. But the love affair with these concrete cubes may be over.
Brady Corbet’s film follows Hungarian-Jewish architect Lazlo Toth, whose architectural vision is shadowed by a life of loss.
"People seem generally to love it or hate it." The fact that concrete is a traditional part of the brutalist aesthetic doesn't help. It puts people in mind of bunkers. Though as Gabrielle Esperdy ...
Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become ... Brutalism is typically defined by poured concrete, blockiness and a minimalist ethos, emphasizing functionality.
He really hates the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., for example, which is Brutalist in its heavy concrete structure, and very small windows strategically placed so that light comes in at ...
Perhaps the most famous Brutalist building in the United States is the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Brutalist architecture is characterized by raw concrete ... Beauty,” the construction for the ...
Grounded on a heavy, concrete base, the home feels at the same time light and sleek. Inspired by brutalist architecture and concrete structures, it features expert joinery and clean, minimalist ...
The Barbican Centre has unveiled a £240 million plan for the biggest overhaul of its famous Brutalist concrete spaces since ... of many of the Grade II listed structures, upgrade ageing building ...