25 buildings from the architectural era of brutalism (26 photos)
Brutalism is an architectural style in which preference given to bare building materials and structural elements, and not decorative design. It is usually associated with rude, raw surfaces, unusual shapes and brutal external view today.
1. Torres Blancas building in Madrid. Architect: Francisco Javier Saenz de Oisa, 1961
2. Building Elyon-Hitchins, North Carolina, USA. Architect Paul Rudolph, 1972 Demolished 2021
3. Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Chuvash Republic (architectural style - Soviet modernism, raised on the basis of brutalism)
4. Bank of London and South America headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1966
5. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Denis Lasdan, 1970
6 Ponte Tower (Ponte City Apartments), Johannesburg, South Africa, 1975 Manfred Hermer, Manny Feldman, Rodney Grosskopf
7. Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada
8. Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
9. Secretariat Building, Chandigarh, India, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site
10. Lichfield Towers, USA
11. Boston College of Architecture, USA
12. Llewellyn Hall, Canberra, Australia
13. Office building, Singapore
14. Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco, 1973
15. MacMillan Bloedel building, Vancouver. Arthur Erickson, 1965
16. Dunelm House - Durham, UK, completed 1966
17. Lupton Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Building demolished in 2014
18. National Library of Argentina
19. Santa Catarina State Court (Brazil)
20. Houses on Brunnadernstraße, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Atelier 5 in 1970
21. Balfron Tower, London
22. Lester B. Pearson Building, Ottawa
23. Big Concert Hall of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Philharmonic
24. National Medical Research Center of Oncology. N. N. Blokhina, Moscow
25. Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. 1981