Brutalist Buildings in Your Region - Page 19

photoLith · #**361** Posted **Apr 17, 2013, 8:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by M II A II R II K

Orange County, New York prefers ersatz Colonial over ur-Brutalist

03.08.2012

Read More: http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5925

Proposed

Good riddance.

RCDC · #**362** Posted **Apr 17, 2013, 8:57 PM**

Like replacing a Georges Braque with a Bob Ross...

Tyler Xyroadia · #**363** Posted **Apr 18, 2013, 12:30 PM**

Interesting...

I have always said that the test for demolishing a building is to see what is planned to trplace it.
The sketches and plans for those Colonial buildings are quite nice and wil lactually fit in with other similar buildings in the area.

While I am for preservation in ALL it's forms, especially of ugly buildings, I can feel good that what is replacing these are at least not worse then what is currently there.

alps · #**364** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 5:44 AM**

Blegh, that's awful. A couple decades in the future and they'll really regret these sorts of demolitions.

ardecila · #**365** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 7:07 AM**

I believe the Orange County building was spared.

10538 · #**366** Posted **Apr 21, 2013, 4:23 PM**

Ok here's another brutalist building in Tallinn:

Central Post Office. It was built for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics.

(Õhtuleht)

(Delfi)

Interior:

(Eesti arhitektuurimuuseum)

(flickr/tarmo888)

They are currently rebuilding it and there will be a shopping center.

Moxie · #**367** Posted **Jul 13, 2013, 5:44 PM**

Hello All-

I've been trying to figure out where this building is...

© Warner Brothers

It looks similar to hospitals in New Orleans and Toronto, but it isn't either of those. I seem to have exhausted all the basic search mechanisms and since I don't know what city it's in, I'm officially stuck. If anyone has ideas to help steer me in a new direction, I'd be very grateful.

photoLith · #**368** Posted **Jul 13, 2013, 7:45 PM**

Just modernist? It's not brutalism, that's for sure.

Moxie · #**369** Posted **Jul 13, 2013, 9:48 PM**

Hmm, really. Okay. Buildings that look just like it come up when I search with the term brutalism. That's how I found this page, in fact. Sorry to have bothered you.

bertazza · #**370** Posted **Jul 18, 2013, 8:18 AM**

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the forum, it s'a great one! I'd like to add my small contribution in terms of brutalist buildings located in North-Eastern Italy, where I live. Enjoy.

Rozzol Melara District, in Trieste:

Source: Flickr (seozzy)

Source: Flickr (paololongo48)

"Peep ovest" housing district, in Udine:

Source: Panoramio

photoLith · #**371** Posted **Jul 18, 2013, 12:41 PM**

Man, brutalism is absolutely horrendous. It's so anti urban and soulless.

Boisebro · #**372** Posted **Jul 21, 2013, 3:07 PM**

i stayed in this in edison, new jersey.

the hotel itself was very nice. but the design is brutal.

Muji · #**373** Posted **Jul 21, 2013, 8:59 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by photoLith

Man, brutalism is absolutely horrendous. It's so anti urban and soulless.

I think that on some level, the perception of Brutalism as soulless and oppressive should be attributed not to the style itself, but to more general problems in late 20th-century planning and urban design. Excessive separation of uses, automobile-oriented design, and monolithic scale predated Brutalism as a style, and also outlived it. Personally, I find 80s Postmodernism to be just as bad in this regard. Plus, there are a handful of Brutalist buildings that are nicely human-scaled like the Brunswick Centre or the Salk Institute.

jd3189 · #**374** Posted **Jul 22, 2013, 12:38 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by photoLith

Man, brutalism is absolutely horrendous. It's so anti urban and soulless.

That's true, but the essence of it is what make it interesting. It has a soul, but it's incredibly basic and immense. It's like stone(concrete) is carved to resemble some that is both manmade and natural.

inSaeculaSaeculorum · #**375** Posted **Jul 22, 2013, 7:52 AM**

everything on page 18 is incredible.

mousquet · #**376** Posted **Jul 22, 2013, 9:17 AM**

Résidence Vision 80, built 1973 on la Défense's boardwalk in Paris.

structurae.de

Broadly regarded as a complete eyesore of the neighborhood, although apartments in there must actually be nice and there are some worse facades.
Take the nearby residential building for instance, Lorraine, built 1969.

defense-92.fr

That one is about to get a facelift though.

LouisVanDerWright · #**377** Posted **Jul 23, 2013, 2:38 PM**

This is one of the best in Chicago:

St. Mary's Hospital, Wicker Park, Chicago

Interior shots of the chapel behind the three story stained glass in the lower left corner of the building in the first picture:

All pictures from this awesome blog post with more shots/info in the link:
http://achicagosojourn.blogspot.com/...l-chapels.html

Chef · #**378** Posted **Aug 20, 2013, 12:49 AM**

Abbey Church at St John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota:

Abbey Church, St. John's University | Collegeville, MN | Marcel Breuer by Pete Sieger, on Flickr

ThatOneGuy · #**379** Posted **Aug 21, 2013, 9:12 PM**

Beautiful. Love brutalism.

Nantais · #**380** Posted **Aug 21, 2013, 11:39 PM**

The Unité d'Habitation in Rezé, a suburb of Nantes in western France.
Actually the building is more known under the name of its architect, Le Corbusier. It's also called Maison Radieuse ("Shiny Happy House").
It was the second Unité d'Habitation to be built by Le Corbusier, after the one located in Marseille (the most known). Three other ones have been built in Berlin, Briey (eastern France, near Metz) and Firminy (south-eastern France, near Saint-Etienne).

I've just bought a duplex apartment located on the two last floors !