Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
British-American architect Noel Michael McKinnell died of pneumonia on March 27 after testing positive for COVID-19, and his colleagues offer a tribute.
The “Long Lines Building” is a 29-floors tower located at 33 Thomas Street in Manhattan. It was designed in 1974 by architect John Carl Warneke. At first sight, the building strikes for the absence of windows and its subsequent fortress-like appearance accentuated by its brutalist attire...
The latest architecture books exploring Brutalism across the world
Brutalism is beautiful. Honest.
Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
Hugh Ferris was a visionary ‘Paper Architect’ who influenced popular culture as well as a generation of architects through his heroic skyscraper r...
Japanese artist Minoru Nomata graduated from the Design Department of Tokyo University of the Arts and started working as a painter at the end of the 1970's. Each one of his vertical or horizontal paintings portraits a heroic building conceived by Nomata and represented as standing alone at the...
British-American architect Noel Michael McKinnell died of pneumonia on March 27 after testing positive for COVID-19, and his colleagues offer a tribute.
On display until May 31st, the Vitra Design Museum's "Architecture of Independence – African Modernism" exhibition di...
From the art of resistance to unreasonable authority to the architecture celebrating it (authority is always unreasonable), that’s the journey from the last post to this one. Authority is a fascina…
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British-American architect Noel Michael McKinnell died of pneumonia on March 27 after testing positive for COVID-19, and his colleagues offer a tribute.
Donald Niebyl has been tracking the locations of spomeniks, which he has meticulously documented for the Spomenik Database since 2015
Piccoli manifesti di propaganda per celebrare il successo del sistema comunista, raccolti nel libro "Brutal Bloc Postcards"
Donald Niebyl has been tracking the locations of spomeniks, which he has meticulously documented for the Spomenik Database since 2015
“Beginning in San Jose, Costa Rica, we were pleased to see a rise in the number of Brutalist buildings,” Ian told me. “Today, Brutalism has more …
A conversation with the creators of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, which explores the city’s remarkable urban renewal legacy.
In this fascinating article on the Slate design blog, J Bryan Lowder takes on a commonly held myth: that brutalist bu...
One of the most divisive forms of architecture ever invented is enjoying a comeback as fans across the world try to preserve it.
