Defend the Indefensible - Concrete Architecture

The only thing I can think that's even edible there is the Japanese place!

http://wiem.onet.pl/wiem/bmp/49486-3744.jpg

http://www.scroll.demon.co.uk/jpg/brazil/brasilia/bra16.jpg

http://www.cendotec.org.br/imagens/alvorada.jpg

I like boring glass buildings. Minimalist shiny glass architecture = shiny minimal techno. Sprawling concrete complexes = old-skool 70s prog r0x0r.

There is so much wrong with this statement. Concrete inhabits the same modernist realm as steel and glass. Concrete architecture is the kraftwerk and idustrial of arhcitecture. Steel and class in more like trance ocassional there is some good but most of the time it's just lazy bad design and no substance.

i have warmed considerably to the Trellick. i used to think it was hideous and perhaps in a way it is, but the actual interior design is superb (not been in but saw a detailed BBC docu piece on it a few months back)

shame we don't have Niemeyer stuff here really

sprawling concrete complexes = 70's old-skool TG/CV

shiny minimal techno = 'secondary moderns'

minimalist shiny glass architecture = philip glass, obv

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-- Tim (hopkinsti...), December 5th, 2002 12:20 PM.

http://www.archcenter.ru/rus/news/nonlinear/SAARINEN-TWA.JPG

http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/dulles/Dulles1.jpg

http://butthead.ton.tut.fi/~samppa/csc299-01/photos/gateway_arch.jpg

The Hairy Tortoise Kate. Home of the finest Malaysian Chicken Curry & Rice Evah!

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/patrimoine-XX/fr/valorisation/images/flaine.jpg

http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/postcards/photos/abchurext.jpg

Or, xpost, what Stevem said.

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The solution is not pink paint but light-emitting concrete.

and do you mean Emley mast Ed? Ilkeston is at the bottom of a valley near Derby? If so yeah, right on the tops above Bradford? dominates the skyline for miles and miles - fantastic stuff

http://mimezine.com/~uhtu/2003.08/lr_marina_city.jpg

The biggest problem an architect faces with concrete seems to be rain stains - remember the stuff was invented by peoples who didn't see as much rain as the rest of us.

A painter ex-neighbour of mine has just been rehoused in the Brunswick Centre, where he is in delirium about the light he is getting in his conservatory, which fills the flat with lovely sunshine. These are meant to be machines for living in, so I can forgive the hallways somewhat in the knowledge that nobody in the place suffers from SAD. However Pete is right, they ought to blanket-ban net curtains there - ruins the sightlines.

Ronan Point
http://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/ronanpoint_lrg.jpg

Vs.

Roehampton estate
http://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/roehamp1_lrg.jpg

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Oh go on, why not.

http://alantrewartha.20m.com/cattank-t.jpg

Yes, it is Marina City in Chicago and the building on the Wilco album - you should look up Bertrand Goldberg if you like it.

I'll ask the mods to take it down and use the link instead.

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/archkit.jpg

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Thanks, but I didn't take them. The building has a dramatic acute angle on one of the outside corners (like a wedge) but I couldn't find any pictures of that.

Fendi has bought the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. Even without the history, it's a strange, sinister building for reasons i've never quite been able to put my finger on.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11938018/Fendi-unveils-restored-Mussolini-building-as-its-headquarters-in-Rome.html

it looks more like an aquaduct than a building and it gives me the same unsettling sense of emptiness you get in some of giorgio de chirico's paintings. being elevated heightens it

https://zoowithoutanimals.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/de-chirico_melancholia-1916.jpg

http://www.galleryintell.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Giorgio-de-Chirico_cropped.jpg

Used to good effect in Taymor's Titus (1999):

http://youtu.be/t-TC2CxtVgw?t=5m17s

It's a fascinating building - though we should note for the record that Mussolini would not have stood for exposed concrete here! That's all travertine, the new Rome and all that.

New book and museum show explores mid-century Brutalism.

https://hyperallergic.com/427997/a-colossal-compendium-of-brutalist-architecture-argues-for-saving-our-concrete-monsters/

I have a short piece in the catalog and a few photos in that and the affiliated conference proceedings, so I got an advance copy and I can say that it's gorrrrgeous, really well put together and I can't wait to have the time to actually read it all.

Anyone bought this?

https://www.waterstones.com/book/iconicon/john-grindrod/9780571348138