What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[threebikesmcginty]

Not only can the U.S. not make cars - they can't commission nice buildings.

Yawn...

 

[Gravity Aided]

FBI has rather a nice building, actually.
Another nice hotel, now mostly apartments, down by Foggy Bottom in the D.C.

 

[zimzum42]

Yawn...

Pop into SCP for some real fun and laughs with Reg...

 

[Gravity Aided]

Took a brutal tour today. Or, as we call it, modern architecture(tour).
Watterson Towers, one of the the largest college dormitories in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watterson_Towers

New Science Laboratories

Adlai Stevenson Hall

Center for the Visual Arts

Atkin-Colby, Hamilton-Witten Halls

State Farm Hall, College of Business
http://business.illinoisstate.edu/about/facilities/

New Student Recreation Center

 

[Profpointy]

thread resurrection:

Have just taken delivery of a rather good book on modern architecture (various styles, not just brutalist):

"The future of architecture since 1889" = Jean-Louis Cohen

Really rather good - well worth the twenty odd quid it's currently going for

 

[Gravity Aided]

Fresh brutalism, a new Hilton a-building in Uptown Normal.

 

[slowmotion]

Fresh brutalism, a new Hilton a-building in Uptown Normal.

Is that the camera angle, or does it get wider at the top?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Correction for tilt of the camera, so it doesn't look like a pyramid. The farther to side one looks, however, the more distortion is apparent. If I were doing a job of this, I would correct all angles . It's so easy to do in Photoshop. Sure beats trotting out a 4x5 camera, dark bag, 20 film holders, a couple of lenses and a dark cloth, all to surmount a huge tripod.

 

[slowmotion]

Correction for tilt of the camera, so it doesn't look like a pyramid. The farther to side one looks, however, the more distortion is apparent. If I were doing a job of this, I would correct all angles . It's so easy to do in Photoshop. Sure beats trotting out a 4x5 camera, dark bag, 20 film holders, a couple of lenses and a dark cloth, all to surmount a huge tripod.

No criticism of your photography intended, GA. Even if it doesn't swell towards the top, it's a blooming horrible building. A bit like an airport control tower on steroids.

 

[Tin Pot]

What were they thinking?

 

[Tin Pot]

So awful they tried to mask it behind trees, unsuccessfully.

 

[coffeejo]

Glad I discovered this thread in the morning rather than at night. It's filled with the stuff of nightmares. (Apart from the demolitions.)

 

[martint235]

So awful they tried to mask it behind trees, unsuccessfully.

Is this in Lewisham? And the multi-coloured thing in the previous post? I seem to remember that being in the news for someone bring murdered outside it or something in the last week or so.

 

[zimzum42]

Always liked this place by the Cam:

 

[threebikesmcginty]

So awful they tried to mask it behind trees, unsuccessfully.

I like both those, I'm imagine there was some colourful language from the brickies working on that one.