What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?
- Thread starter Yellow Fang
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I’ve never seen this before but I like muchly. It reminds me a little of the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavik, which looks great from a distance but a bit pebble-dashed close up.
Also not brutalist but certainly purposeful, I often stop on a ride for a sit and think at the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Burghclere. Although it’s a NT property, the opening times are worked out on an Enigma machine so it’s generally very peaceful. In recent years the front garden has been left as a wildflower meadow which adds to the atmosphere.
Time Waster
Veteran
Isn't new brutalism inspired by the 1946 alumni hall in Chicago? This surely is new brutalism without the later name tag?
I think that is more Modernism
- Location
- London
Yep - reminds me of that East Anglian school.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Brutalism is in the eye of the beholder.
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Like International style, Brutalism is sometimes classified as its own distinctive subtype, though it is considered a variant of post-war modernism. Despite its apparently appropriate name, Brutalism is derived from the French term, beton brut, which translates to “rough concrete”. It is essentially a style based on the shaped and molded forms of concrete, a thick, masonry variation of modernist architecture. Regardless of how the International style, Modernism, and Brutalism are classified, they all share the fundamental modernist principle promoted by Louis Sullivan and his contemporaries and successors, that “form forever follows function,” without relying on revivalist architectural styles of the past.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Visited this many times, Hirshhorn Museum Washington DC - the view out of the 'slot' is fabulous.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Now i know what it reminded me of!
Around the late 70s to early 80s, Pa Bollo was stationed at RAF West Drayton, tracking all those naughty commie bombers making cheeky incursions into U.K. airspace. Within the RAF it was widely known as Legoland, but I always remember it as feeling slightly futuristic and high tech. Some of the architecture was certainly brutalist.
- Location
- London
looks like 60a stuff to me rather than what I'd call brutalism. Span etc.
Shorter 3 storey bits not so different from my house - quite a lot of things like that round London.
- Location
- London
not sure if it's Brutalism but I like that actually.
Reminds me of those victorian buildings, water towers/industrial buildings and whatever that they tried to make look like castles/castles in the air. Way way better than the majority of the flats, supposedly luxury, that have been chucked up in London the last couple of decades.
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Definitely not Brutalist;
Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
I was watching them demolish it a year or so back. Not sure what is going in its place though?
