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Calvin Seibert builds brutalist sandcastles.
18/04/2020

Calvin Seibert builds brutalist sandcastles.

Kyiv crematorium. 1975. Architects: Авраам Милецкий, Ада Рыбачук, Владимир Мельниченко.
17/08/2019

Kyiv crematorium. 1975. Architects: Авраам Милецкий, Ада Рыбачук, Владимир Мельниченко.

Abandoned hotel in Detroit, Michigan
04/04/2019

Abandoned hotel in Detroit, Michigan

Round House in Moscow (Nezhynskaya Street)
04/04/2019

Round House in Moscow (Nezhynskaya Street)

Brutal Bloc Postcards: Soviet Era Postcards from the Eastern Bloc
04/04/2019

Brutal Bloc Postcards: Soviet Era Postcards from the Eastern Bloc

London's brutalist-era Welbeck Street car park is to be torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, despite campaigns to s...
29/03/2019

London's brutalist-era Welbeck Street car park is to be torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, despite campaigns to save its unique facade.

In February 2019, Westminister Council approved plans submitted by Shiva Hotels to demolish the brutalist car park, designed in 1971 by Michael Blampied and Partners, and replace it with a 10-storey hotel.

The property squeezes three bedrooms plus living spaces onto a footprint of less than 40 square metres in the Portuguese...
27/03/2019

The property squeezes three bedrooms plus living spaces onto a footprint of less than 40 square metres in the Portuguese city's Mouraria neighbourhood.

Architect Daniel Zamarbide worked with Leopold Banchini to design a pared-back Lisbon house with glass-walled rooms overlooking a full-height living space, as his own home.

Zamarbide and Banchini, who ran a studio together called Bureau A until 2017, collaborated on the design of the house that is tailored to suit his family's lifestyle.

Minimalism meets a majesty at Palazzo Daniele, a six-bedroom guest house in Puglia. Set in the village of Gagliano del C...
24/03/2019

Minimalism meets a majesty at Palazzo Daniele, a six-bedroom guest house in Puglia. Set in the village of Gagliano del Capo, where the Adriatic’s rocky coastline meets the sandy beaches of the Ionian Sea, the property is the former family palazzo of Francesco Petrucci, co-founder of Capo d’Arte, a not-for-profit organisation promoting contemporary art in Puglia.

Reshaped by the Milanese duo Ludovica and Roberto Palomba of Palomba Serafini Associati, the 19th-century pile has been turned into guest rooms, an art space and artists’ studios, and hosts an annual residency programme in partnership with Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome. Inspired by the idea of ‘absence’, the architects have stripped back as much as possible, while restoring historical features such as ornate frescoes and mosaic flooring, to create a dramatic canvas for the palazzo’s ever-expanding contemporary art collection.

The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early m...
16/03/2019

The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of home décor. The primary materials used were steel, glass, and glass block. Some of the notable "industrial" elements included rubberized floor tiles, bare steel beams, perforated metal sheet, heavy industrial light fixtures, and mechanical fixtures.

The design was a collaboration among Pierre Chareau (a furniture and interiors designer), Bernard Bijvoet (a Dutch architect working in Paris since 1927) and Louis Dalbet (craftsman metalworker). Much of the intricate moving scenery of the house was designed on site as the project developed. The external form is defined by translucent glass block walls, with select areas of clear glazing for transparency. Internally, spatial division is variable by the use of sliding, folding or rotating screens in glass, sheet or perforated metal, or in combination. Other mechanical components included an overhead trolley from the kitchen to dining room, a retracting stair from the private sitting room to Mme Dalsace's bedroom and complex bathroom cupboards and fittings.

Address: 31 Rue St-Guillaume, Paris, France
Architect: Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet
Patron: Dr. Dalsace, a Parisian doctor
Construction Dates: 1928 to 1931
Alternate Name: Maison Dalsace
Style: Early Modern
Building Use: Home and ground floor medical office

Villa Ensemble near Zurich, Switzerland by AFGH Architects 🖤🖤🖤
13/03/2019

Villa Ensemble near Zurich, Switzerland by AFGH Architects 🖤🖤🖤

Perfection. From Atelier de Troupe, LA
17/02/2019

Perfection. From Atelier de Troupe, LA

The Dovecote Studio (Snape, UK) is part of Haworth Tompkins Architects‘ phased extension of the campus for Aldeburgh Mus...
13/02/2019

The Dovecote Studio (Snape, UK) is part of Haworth Tompkins Architects‘ phased extension of the campus for Aldeburgh Music and inhabits the ruins of a dovecote overlooking the marshes. The new form expresses the internal volume of the Victorian structure as a Cor-ten steel ‘lining’, a welded monocoque that was prefabricated and craned into position. A large north light roof window provides even light for artists, while a small mezzanine platform with a writing desk incorporates a fully opening glazed corner window that gives long views over the marshes towards the sea.The single volume will be used by artists in residence, by musicians as rehearsal or performance space, by staff for meetings or as a temporary exhibition space.

Only the minimum necessary brickwork repairs were carried out to stabilise the existing ruin prior to the new structure being inserted. Decaying existing windows were left alone and vegetation growing over the dovecote was protected to allow it to continue a natural process of ageing and decay. The interior walls and ceiling of the space are lined with spruce plywood to create a timber “box” within the Cor-ten shell.

Images courtesy of Philip Vile

The assignment for the Gold & Gray apartment by Richard Lindvall was to turn an old embassy in Stockholm into a private ...
12/02/2019

The assignment for the Gold & Gray apartment by Richard Lindvall was to turn an old embassy in Stockholm into a private apartment.

Three walls were taken down to create one large room of 85 square meter with a bit of a gallery feel. This room includes kitchen, dining and living area.

A gray scale with materials like concrete, valchromat and brushed steel are recurring throughout the apartment. In contrast to this, three brass cubes was built that all serves a unique function, a kitchen island, a closet and a coffee table.

Both bathrooms have concrete flooring and walls covered in blasted limestone from the island of Gotland in the south if Sweden. In one of the bathrooms a giant concrete bathtub was built that accommodates the entire family of 5 people.

Images courtesy of Mikael Axelsson and Richard Lindvall

London Brutalist architecture by Andrew Cadey
09/02/2019

London Brutalist architecture by Andrew Cadey

Psychogeographie by Antoine d’Agata
08/02/2019

Psychogeographie by Antoine d’Agata

Laurent Kronental is a self-taught French photographer born in 1987. From 2011 to 2015, he has developed his "Souvenir d...
07/02/2019

Laurent Kronental is a self-taught French photographer born in 1987. From 2011 to 2015, he has developed his "Souvenir d'un Futur" first artistic series on elderly living in "grands ensembles" housing projects in Paris. Laurent Kronental pushes forward a different vision of often underestimated suburban areas where buildings and its inhabitants are getting older and taking the memories of a modernist utopia away with them.

This is a new community created by the devoted admirers of brutalist aesthetics in architecture and design; we have the ...
06/02/2019

This is a new community created by the devoted admirers of brutalist aesthetics in architecture and design; we have the pleasure of dedicating our very first publication to this beautifully constructed project created by FORM / Kouichi Kimura Architects in Shiga, Japan.

The site is located along a highway with large volume of traffic. A field expands around the site that is adjacent to the concrete factory run by the client, and a traditional Japanese house where the parents reside.

When entering the hall, the space created by the tall volumes welcomes guests with watery light from the top light. The space is divided by seamless glass sidewalls, which give a perspective effect to visibility of the space beyond.

The living and dining spaces that are connected with each other are encompassed within a large volume embraced by the space. An attempt has been made to segment the space by differentiating ceiling height and floor level.

Through the glass wall at the north side, you can enjoy the view clipped out by the horizontal line of the wall, making the house impression far richer. The sequence of spaces, which are unrolled along the axis, generates comfortable tranquility that gives exquisite aesthetics to daily life.

FORM / Kouichi Kimura Architects, since 1991.
Photography: Norihito Yamauchi.

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