Sentences with phrase «brutalist buildings»

Brutalist buildings are under threat everywhere; Hospital buildings are a particularly tough thing to save.

Brutalist buildings are under threat everywhere right now; people find them particularly ugly.

Flashes from brutalist buildings past:

Since then, brutalist buildings of this vintage, like the Barbican or Erno Goldfinger's Trellick Tower have become hot properties as people recognize their architectural value.

But while Sosnowska's fabrications may resemble the dark tangled trees of her country's topography, her direct source material is the urban jungle of Poland's oppressive socialist era, Brutalist buildings characterized by a stark economy of material, form, and production.

In practice, that means features including an interview with Ace Hotel New York's chief brand officer Kelly Sawdon; a feature in which a Michelin - starred chef talks discusses culture and politics (and of course, food); a photo series about the lesser - known side of LA by Minh T; and a look at the same city's brutalist buildings from architect Nicola Montuschi.

However, the physical traces of the past can still be seen in work such as Jedrzej Franek's dizzying shots of Polish tower blocks and Michal Korta's striking black and white images of Brutalist buildings in Skopje, Macedonia.

Check out 10 great examples of Brutalist buildings here, then head to #SOSBrutalism to see the entire catalog.

Helen Dyson, founder of the school, said: «We did a fantastic photoshoot at the National Theatre, with flowers set against the brutalist buildings.

The team behind #SOSBrutalism is currently building a database of Brutalist buildings around the world, with over 700 incredible examples already cataloged.

And to share that passion, it has created playful illustrated paper cutout models of Brutalist buildings in London; modernist buildings in Warsaw; and a new series, Paris Brut, featuring Brutalist architecture from the 1950s — 70s located in the city center and outlying banlieues.

Across the road stands a massive Poste Italia facility, a heavy brutalist building that stretches on for blocks and blocks.

The review highlights the work of photographers Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, whose portraits, video projects, and zines reveal the lives of the residents living in a famous Brutalist building in Johannesburg.

As the refurbished Hayward Gallery reopens at the end of January, its director, Ralph Rugoff, explains what the brutalist building offers artists — and audiences — who are willing to venture beyond the white cube.

Mounted in partnership with the Vinyl Factory, the autumn exhibition will be held in an iconic Brutalist building at The Store, 180 The Strand, on the opposite bank of the Thames to its long - term home in the Southbank complex.

Love these concrete monolithic buildings or hate them the artist and photographer Simon Phipps is ready to challenge all your preconceptions of the Brutalist building in his solo exhibition in London: BÉTON BRUT.

A unique creative space and broadcast studios housed in an iconic Brutalist building, Store Studios, 180 The Strand launched in October 2016 with the runaway success of «The Infinite Mix: Sound and Image in Contemporary Video» exhibition, attracting over 80,000 visitors.

Following a trail of art, architecture, dance, design and music, Celia Hempton will transform part of the iconic brutalist building 180 Strand with a series of site - specific wall paintings, in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory, whilst the uncanny disused Jubilee line platform in Charing Cross Underground station will be transformed into a sensory installation by Koo Jeong A, co-commissioned with Art on the Underground.

The Hayward Gallery is crossing the River Thames to present the gallery's only major off - site exhibition during its two - year refurbishment at The Store, a new creative space at an iconic Brutalist building on the Strand.

The exhibition spans four levels of the imposing Brutalist building and presents us with ten expansive black boxes — referred to here as «studios».

The French musique concrète composer was commissioned to create this electronic mass for the opening of the Brutalist building in 1967 but did not complete it in time.

While the Royal Academy's current abstract expressionism show reiterates that North American painting took the world by storm in an «age of anxiety», at the other end of the Strand, in a gutted carapace of a brutalist building, this blockbuster exhibits the creative versatility of moving image and sound in our post-Y2K age — a period not without anxieties of its own.

At the last minute, a British heritage organization has reentered a bid to save a major Brutalist building — Robin Hood Gardens, a housing project in East London — from the demolition ball.

Piano's asymmetrically modern building takes the place of Marcel Breuer's 1966 Brutalist building, the Whitney Museum on 75th Street.

The Brutalist building was designed by a group of young architects, including Dennis Crompton, Warren Chalk and Ron Herron and is named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a former leader of the London County Council.

When seen within the context of the soon - to - be-emptied Brutalist building that Focal Point Gallery and Southend Central Library currently occupy (both organisations will move to another structure in late 2013), Peake's project is akin to the endearing vision of Tecton which, much like the collection of animals in a zoo, or the archive of books in a library, somehow continues to survive against all external forces.

The abstract colorful shapes of artist and educator Beverly Fishman will soon be on full display in downtown Detroit, where they'll brighten a brutalist building as part of a massive mural.

Since September 2015, Hayward Gallery has been closed for essential repairs and refurbishment, including the replacement of the Brutalist building's 66 iconic pyramid rooflights.

The exhibition takes place at The Store, a new creative space located at the iconic Brutalist building 180 The Strand.

the Whitney, which has long chafed under the cramped dimensions of its magnificent Brutalist building on 75th Street, would relocate entirely to its planned Renzo Piano satellite downtown — but instead of selling the flagship location, it would lease it to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art.Continue Reading

Meditating on matters such as the artist's hand, ghost bodies, and the gestural, the disembodied hands, measuring about 11 inches high, seem as if they were carefully removed from the exterior of a Brutalist building, alluding to a specific, but incomplete history.

Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery, explains what the revamped brutalist building has to offer artists and audiences

A unique creative space housed in an iconic Brutalist building, Store Studios, 180 The Strand launched in October 2016 with the critically acclaimed «The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound and Image» exhibition — a collaboration between The Hayward Gallery and The Vinyl Factory.

Pioneering new approaches to combining sounds and images, the Hayward Gallery in association with The Vinyl Factory present the gallery's only major off - site exhibition during its two - year refurbishment at The Store, a new creative space at an iconic Brutalist building on the Strand.

The owner of the building is Chicago institution Northwestern University, which intends to demolish the unique brutalist building, composed of a nine - story concrete cloverleaf tower cantilevered over a rectangular five - story podium.

Not exact matches

Cosmetically the areas around Glasgow East have been modernised and many of the large communal housing blocks built in the bleak «Brutalist» architectural style have been demolished, however the area still suffers from all the big problems which plague inner cities — worklessness, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, petty crime.

Boundaoui and Bell chose the brutalist AT&T Long Lines Building as the site for their projection, an informed choice given that the NSA conducts secret surveillance from inside the very same building, designed to withstand nuclear Building as the site for their projection, an informed choice given that the NSA conducts secret surveillance from inside the very same building, designed to withstand nuclear building, designed to withstand nuclear fallout.

Rather, this group of about 45 women and a few men are set to embark on a full - blown architectural tour of London's most famous brutalist landmarks and modernist social housing estates, finishing with lunch at the Isokon building, a white concrete block designed by architect Wells Coates.

The director's new short film descends on a brutalist New York building to sum up the unsettlingly intangible nature of the web

In «High - Rise», British director Ben Wheatley's dizzying adaptation of JG Ballard's 1975 novel of class warfare in a brutalist tower block, Hiddleston plays a louche, disaffected doctor who watches as the inhabitants of his building turn on each other.

And like that earlier movie, which was confined to a 40 - story Brutalist tower, an edifice in which the tenants descend deeper into savagery, Free Fire takes place almost entirely in one building, a derelict warehouse in Boston where bodies start to pile up.

This school library is part of an open - concept school building that was constructed in the 1970s in a style known as Modernist and Brutalist.

Over the years, there were three other Four Seasons hotels in the city including the Inn on the Park, which I visited with my parents several times in the 1980s, and the new hotel's immediate predecessor, a Brutalist - style building at 21 Avenue Road, was, in Sharp's words, «like driving into a garage.»

The four star superior H10 Cubik is located in a building with geometric shapes that took its inspiration from the Brutalist architectural style of the mid-20th century.

Architecture firm HKS has overhauled a 120 - year - old steam plant and a brutalist office building, creating a headquarters for a medical company and aiming to revive an ageing downtown district in the American Rust Belt.

Despite its reputation for grey concrete and unloved brutalist architecture, the cityscape has evolved significantly in recent years, with the addition of iconic buildings such as Selfridges department store, Beetham Tower and the stunning new Library of Birmingham.

The city itself is super eclectic, even walking around the city centre you can see the great contrast between some really wonderfully experimental new buildings, and their brutalist concrete counterparts, nestled in between areas like the Chinese Quarter, and also the remnants of Birmingham's more industrial past with tons of great old warehouse spaces, some of which have been repurposed into really interesting places.

The Thief is a hotel owned by Norway's answer to Charles Saatchi, the self - made millionaire and art collector Petter A. Stordalen, and he uses the angular, modernist, brutalist glass building on the city's recently rejuvenated waterfront to display his own contemporary art purchases.

In Revisiting Paradise, Langsam will present a new series of watercolor paintings and graphite drawings based on images of the campus» brutalist brick buildings and the original blueprints from the 1971 MoMA exhibition and catalogue Architecture for the Arts: The State University of New York College at Purchase, curated by Arthur Drexler.

Named to honor the building's designer, Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer (1902 - 1981), the new museum has been meticulously restored to its original Brutalist glory.