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Paul Rudoph’s Orange County Brutalist Structure Saved (For Now)!
Orange Country Government Center by Paul Rudolph; Photo: Ty Cole The Hail Mary campaign to save Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center from almost certain demolition has worked! Or for now, at...
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Gensler Wants To Turn Doomed FBI Fortress Into A Futuristic Office Playground
Even before a government report last year declared the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., unfit for duty, we knew the FBI’s 1970s-era Brutalist concrete fortress was due for a makeover. Now...
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You Won’t Find Any Steeples Here: Capturing The Drama Of Postwar Concrete...
Architectural ingenuity was, for a long time, literally wedded to the Church, its great sponsor. This patronage continued into the modern period, and the works that came from that seemingly...
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Photographer Casts World War II Bunkers In Ghostly Light
The Type 583a / M 178 Fire Control Post, Heerenduin, Ijmuiden; All photos: Jonathan Andrews Wars end, but their legacies live on in, among other things, the structures that manage to escape...
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Buenos Aires Space-Age Landmark Dons Pair Of Monumental Headphones
Photo: Sony Nothing says “don’t bother me” like a downward gaze and a pair of chunky headphones strapped across your noggin. Who knew what worked for moody urban teens also works for (quasi-)Brutalist...
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Brutalism Takes A Beating: 6 Embattled Brutalist Icons, And 1 That Lost The...
Orange County Government Center. Photo courtesy National Trust for Historic Preservation/Ani Od Chai Brutalism, as a style of building, doesn’t try to endear itself to the public, which is why,...
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Featured Project: Brutalist-Inspired Home By BAK Arquitectos
Project: AV House Architect: BAK Arquitectos Location: Mar Azul, Argentina While several iconic Brutalist structures in North America face the possibility of demolition, the divisive aesthetic remains...
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FBI Headquarters Is About To Get Fabulous, But Without The FBI
Image courtesy of Gensler Last fall Gensler floated a concept for revamping the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the FBI’s much-groused-about Brutalist fortress in Washington, DC. When the firm released...
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Featured Project: MP House In Sesma By Alcolea + Tárrago
Project: MP House in Sesma Architect: Alcolea + Tárrago Arquitectos Location: Sesma, Navarra, Spain The MP House in Sesma sits atop a sloping site, capturing wide views of the grain fields and...
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Paul Rudolph Brutalist Landmark Saved!
Orange Country Government Center by Paul Rudolph; Photo: Ty Cole It’s been a rough year for Brutalism. Chicago’s Prentice Women’s Hospital will likely be razed, and last spring, it appeared that Paul...
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Brutalism Lite: Concrete Comes Inside to Play
Classified as either the bête noir of 20th-century architecture or the subject of a cult-like fetish, Brutalism occupies a precarious space in architectural memory. Considering its associations with...
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Australia’s Most Scenic Brutalist House Complete With Concrete Cantilevers
Set in a bucolic landscape worthy of a sci-fi movie, this neo-Brutalist masterpiece completes the futuristic image with its daring concrete cantilevers that jut out over a serene lake in Queensland,...
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10 Days Left To Enter Our Competition To Revamp A Midcentury Masterpiece In...
It’s no secret that modern architecture has fallen out of favor. One can easily rattle off a list of 20th century vestiges that have met (or have come perilously close to) the wrecking ball within the...
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The Real Architecture Of DC: News From The Capital Of Controversy
Is the sun setting on Washington, D.C.’s sublime brutalist heritage? It sure seems that way, as a new wave of conservative design thinking dominates city discussions and projects. Several major...
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