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Originally Posted by Cirrus (Post 4725026)

CU's campus architectural plan has required the use of those red flagstones for decades. The result is a cohesive and distinctive campus aesthetic that is widely regarded as one of America's most beautiful. It doesn't translate well to brutalism.

... I wouldn't bother bringing it up, but in the background of that middle picture you can see Boulder's third most famous example of brutalism. Those yellowish high rises in the distance are part of Williams Village, an off-campus cluster of dorms for the university.

Since they're off campus they aren't beholden to the flagstone requirement. They are the tallest buildings in Boulder, and along with one other residential highrise built about the same time are responsible for Boulder's strict 45-foot height limit. Their ugliness was such that Boulder residents rose up and demanded the city never again be so sullied.

I lived in this complex for one semester. The large windows on the top floor are a study hall. On particularly windy days (of which Boulder has many) you could literally feel the building sway from up there.

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My alma mater Montana State has similar buildings, though this was the best I could find on Flickr:

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The other place I went to school also has a lot of brutalism, University of Texas-San Antonio:

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Another picture of Charles de Gaulle airport:

http://www.paul-andreu.com/images_coul/aa_b.jpg

Copyright Paul Andreu.

Check a couple of posts back for a picture of and a link to the remodel.

:previous: Oh wow. that airport did catch my eye when I saw it in "Frantic", but that is fantastic - what are those, escalators?

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Originally Posted by alps (Post 4734015)

:previous: Oh wow. that airport did catch my eye when I saw it in "Frantic", but that is fantastic - what are those, escalators?

Inclined moving walkways. Structurally, they span quite an unsupported distance...

a lot of these buildings are ace and much better than many bland po-mo styles imho

i currently live in a converted brutalist office block (grade 2 listed and designed by legendary brutalist architect eno goldfinger) in the super-brutalist elephant and castle.

here it is:

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Tallinn's "Linna Hall"

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Originally Posted by tuesdaythefifth (Post 4735561)

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Looks like it was inspired by:

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Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons.

Not sure it is itself a Brutalist building...

Greetings!
Ah, I've been curious about this style for ages! And for my surprise I came across this excellent forum.

Ahem, for introductions, I live in Brazil, and more specifically, a tiny island called Florianópolis.

Now, I'm not 100% these were meant to be brutalist architecture, but they sure seem to fit.

Here's my addition, they all seem to have made in the same period of time, and most likely are from the same architects...

My favorite:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9...g0930te.th.jpg

(I didn't know how multiple uploads worked on imageshack, so here are the "albums"...)

http://yfrog.com/ao8213538jx

http://yfrog.com/j8img0946vjx

http://yfrog.com/esimg0932djx

welcome to the forum Murdoch. I love Floripa.

Great thread - I thought I might share a few pictures of Brutalist buildings in my city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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The Sturdy Stone Centre in downtown Saskatoon

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The main library on the University of Saskatchewan campus

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The Health Sciences Building on the University of Saskatchewan campus

Fourtnately, Brutalism didn't touch foot here in Saginaw County, Michigan, only Post-Modernism.

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Originally Posted by njjeppson (Post 4734452)

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So that's what the Bass House looks like! A professor in my school once mentioned it during a review, but he just described it as "big and white". I just imagined a huge poorly-done faux-Classical Texas mansion, but nothing remotely this sexy!

:slob:

Apparently the professor worked on it when he was younger, but I didn't know it was a Paul Rudolph or - by implication - that he worked with Rudolph! Rudolph is one of those architects that I don't know too much about... I only really know the Yale Art & Architecture Building and some of the Sarasota School stuff.

Hey Deja Vu. I don't know if anyone else posted this yet, but how about Litchfield Towers, the group of 3 dorms on Pitt's campus about a block from the Cathedral of Learning? I believe that was built around the same time, around 1965-66 or so. It essentially is one big low-rise building with these 3 big cylindrical concrete towers rising up from that...

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Originally Posted by TarHeelJ (Post 4793531)

Brutalist Atlanta

Atlanta Apparel Mart, Atlanta Mart District
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/isaiahj/2518024044/

Superb.

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