Sentences with phrase «of brutalist architecture»

Hayward Gallery is a world - renowned contemporary art gallery and a landmark of Brutalist architecture.

Yet many academics and other fans of Brutalist architecture championed the rather austere nature of the building and it certainly opened to much fanfare in 1966, with a celebrity A-list attending the ribbon - cutting including board member Jacqueline Kennedy.

Fabricated from folded steel plate the formal language of her sculptures could be linked with the coldness of Brutalist architecture, but with their organically spewing interiors these works are bound up more with the excesses of consumer society and the body and its immediate extensions.

Relating the paintings directly to his public works, the texts echo the words from Montgomery's Hammersmith Poem — unveiled in early 2017 as a monumental four panelled installation wrapping a glass atrium under the Hammersmith Town Hall — a paragon of Brutalist architecture.

Whilst the new Library of Birmingham fills the city's thirst for knowledge, it also sees the demolition of the old building in 2015, considered an icon of Brutalist architecture.

This month's acquisitions include a hoard of Soviet nonconformist art, a significant example of brutalist architecture, and a Danish masterpiece

The abstract works echo the industrial city's abundance of brutalist architecture, suggesting aestheticized takes on labyrinthine housing projects, while the two canvases featuring Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Marcus Garvey allude to his hometown's racial mix through reference to other times and places.

The London - based art director, graphic designer, lover of Brutalist architecture, and author of the new Phaidon book This Brutal World chooses his favorite works on Artspace.

East London council estate designed by Alison and Peter Smithson is considered an important example of brutalist architecture

Located within one of the finest examples of Brutalist architecture, it has become known for its programme of groundbreaking contemporary exhibitions.

Queue Inception soundtrack, shots of brutalist architecture, and blatantly obvious commentary on individuality in modern society and you've got yourself another Hunger Games.

A lot of the Brutalist architecture in London became the key, really.

Not exact matches

We are looking at a classic example of the stark stacked - box architecture once described by Henrik Bull, an American designer of ski homes, as Brutalist Bauhaus.

Typically strong on production design, Niccol fully indulges his love affair with midcentury modernism here, paying direct homage to Gattaca with a handsome array of vintage cars, classic suits and lovingly shot brutalist architecture.

An example of the design aesthetic that harks back to Brutalist architecture and Le Corbusier, the Streetfighter is all yellow pecs and delts: the trellis framework, engine casings, and wheels are blacked out.

Enjoy the rest of the day at leisure, exploring streets where Austro - Hungarian, Baroque, and Brutalist architecture intermingle.

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.

JL: The scratch drawings show the eclectic brutalist architecture of the rebuilt city.

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.

The metal works call to mind a number of influences including Russian Constructivism, brutalist architecture, and more obscurely the weapons series by the Arte Povera artist, Pino Pascali.

Instead of motifs from brutalist architecture, Dannert's works feature detailed images of delicately veined plant leaves, assembling a vision of constructed nature.

Entitled «Rise,» the colorful, abstract mural will bring a vivid transformation to the north - facing wall of the brutalist - style architecture of the Detroit City Club Apartments at 1431 Washington Blvd. «Rise» will be -LSB-...]

By extension of Modernist architectural history — specifically that of the eras of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy of the town square as a place of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.

Its original Gothic Revival façade resembles a castle, while its campus of connected buildings comprises groundbreaking examples of Beaux - Arts, International Style, and Brutalist interiors, all forward - thinking in the history of museum architecture.

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.

It is situated in a remarkable example of sixties brutalist architecture and it is one of the few remaining buildings in this style.

Cast in concrete it loses none of that simplicity and also becomes both statuesque and wonderfully reminiscent of the richness of cast concrete on brutalist architecture.»

At the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, his outdoor sculpture relates to a view of the Palisades framed by the Museum's Brutalist and Victorian architecture.

Drawing on the distinctive architecture of each site, De St. Croix responds to the Georgian Revival style of Wave Hill's Glyndor House and the Brutalist façade of the Hudson River Museum, itself inspired by the distinctive formations of the Palisades.

«Brutal London by Zupagrafika is a playful journey through London's post-war brutalist architecture that allows the readers to construct some of the most interesting and controversial concrete structures while learning about their place in the city's architectural history.

Paris Brut is a collection of illustrated paper models by Zupagrafika Studio, which portray the Brutalist architecture of Paris from between the late 1950s and 1970s.

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And it is not any old architecture that is being distantly evoked, but, specifically, the concrete minimalism of the brutalists.

Working on a so seminal building would be a risky job for any architect; nevertheless, we can say that the careful renovation design by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects — extremely respectful of the «brutalist» architecture devised by Breuer in the»60s — achieved quite a remarkable result

London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner Prize - nominated architecture collective Assemble has teamed up with British artist Simon Terrill to create full - size foam replicas of playground designs from architecture's Brutalist era (+ slideshow).

London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner - nominated architecture studio Assemble has revealed plans to fill a gallery in the headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects with a spongy Brutalist - inspired landscape.

The mosaic floats in an ambiguous space, slightly away from the walls and behind two brutalist pillars that are stylistically in keeping with the architecture of the Clinica Pediatrica though not literal depictions.

After posting our review of the wonderful «This Brutal World» book and collection on Brutalist architecture, we thought of one of our favorite painters, NYC - based Daniel Rich.

Other works on display include Seher Shah's graphite on paper drawings, Brutalist Traces (2015 - 16), of the modernist architecture of New Delhi; artist Gauri Gill's notebooks entitled «1984» (2005, 2009, 2014), from which are also displayed several photographs of the people and interior spaces of the «Widows Colony» in Tilak Vihar, where families affected by the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 were provided housing by the state; and a series of streetscape photographs by Pablo Bartholomew, including Man Asleep in Front of Political Graffiti, Calcutta (1978) which embodies how, in South Asia, history inflects the everyday.

This important survey is published to accompany an exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery, in which Neto reimagines the gallery's concrete spaces and brutalist architecture with a new site - specific commission and a number of new sculptural works.

It is an outstanding example of sixties brutalist architecture and is one of the few remaining buildings of this style.

I was expecting to have my soul crushed, as usual, under the brutalist heaviness of the architecture.

Nigoghossian's own work, likewise, stems in part from a desire to create foreign objects from a familiar lexicon, to fabricate idiosyncratic, alien forms while referencing and employing established Art Historical modes of expression — which vary from Brutalist and Deconstructivist architecture, to Baroque painting, to Modernist European drawing, to the Abstract Expressionist sculpture of John Chamberlain.

Sean Bidder, Creative Director of The Vinyl Factory, says: «We are excited to be premiering these incredible, immersive installations at The Store 180 The Strand, a large scale off - site space across the river from Hayward Gallery, whose similarly Brutalist architecture provides the basis for a unique experience that is truly immersive and radically different from a traditional gallery environment.»

Brutalist architecture doesn't get a lot of love.

You may not like big box buildings from an aesthetic perspective — I hate to say it but I'd prefer a whole city of Brutalist concrete architecture over a bunch of steel framed big boxes — but they sure do have a lot of roof surface area suitable for solar power.

Hundreds of campaigners crowded into the street outside the MoJ's Petty France HQ, celebrated for its brutalist architecture, in opposition to the seemingly endless stream of brutal and mindless legal aid policy emanating from inside.

It is inspired by Italian Brutalist architecture from the 1970s, interpreted the geometric design of Pyramids into hand carved wood with a glam gold steel base.