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it's the materials and how they are presented and how those materials weather..and how they smell...and absorb and retain stains...and how quickly they crumble. and how so many cities and developers used the style to cut corners, save money and "throw up" raw concrete buildings and pass them off as legitimate architecture. |
I wouldn't call the LDS Church Office Building Brutalist, but Salt Lake does, in fact, have three iconic buildings that fit this description.
The Behavorial Science Building on the University of Utah campus. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/11...36e743a9_o.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/2...b970b2df_b.jpg The MultiEthnic Highrise downtown: http://assets.sbnation.com/imported_...chighrise1.jpg And probably Salt Lake's most known and biggest beast... The residential tower on State. http://assets.sbnation.com/imported_...tatebldgnw.jpg Then there is Salt Lake Community College, which is mostly filled with this type... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/...8c93ed52_b.jpg Much of the University of Utah's campus is brutalist, including the Medical Plaza Towers. http://www.apartments.utah.edu/image...icalTowers.jpg Beyond that, at the mouth of the canyon, the residential high-rises/mid-rises can fit the bill, as well. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/61352/DSCF2175.jpg So there you have it. |
UCSD's Geisel Library
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/86/22...5eaeb9.jpg?v=0 http://bioinf.ucsd.edu/~ngupta/pictu...-GeiselLib.jpg I love the Salk institute so I gotta post another pic. I think it's a great picnic spot since you can walk to the end of it and find yourself on a cliff overlooking the beautiful Pacific. http://www.stephenlrosen.com/images/...NSTITUTE-5.jpg http://www.nexusjournal.com/2008/Ima..._Institute.jpg This one ain't so pretty but I see it everyday in my area SIPA- Columbia's school of international public affairs. http://www.columbia.edu/about_columb...mages/sipa.jpg At my old school, I always had an interest with Bunche Hall, it was the subtle purple hue. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/220/4...5e4fa4.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/23...8ba860.jpg?v=0 |
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I LOVE IT! It's like a real life scene from one of my all time favorite childhood games for sega, Flashback http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.c...back/snes3.png http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/24...074b2e.jpg?v=0 http://www.adventureclassicgaming.co...9_3_medium.gif |
some of my pix of the Barbican Centre, a complete Sixties timewarp complete with highrise concrete and rubber piping suppliers in all their glory, I kid ye not: luxury brutalism at $2million a pop
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Some great, seductive urbanity going on there. I love places like that. They have this vibrant, Gotham feel.
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I forgot about this tower in the central city area of Salt Lake City:
Too bad I don't have a better photo of this. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/61497/DSCF2957.jpg |
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This is the Weyerhaeuser Headquarters in Federal Way, Washington. I think it would count as brutalism.
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It most definitely is of the Brutalist "style", and built with pure functionality in mind at the same time all of the other cookie-cutter brutalist major league stadia were being constructed across the nation. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/...99bef246_b.jpg photo credit: flickr |
Dallas City Hall designed by I. M. Pei. Even the flag poles are intimidating.
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles34176.jpg http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc34176.php http://www.socialdata.org/march/1200...196%20copy.jpg http://www.socialdata.org/march/ http://dextrovert.com/albums/downtow...ight.sized.jpg http://dextrovert.com/gallery/slides...downtowndallas http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1.../Dallas027.jpg http://dallasdiorama.blogspot.com/20...1_archive.html |
The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin...
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How can we talk about Qualcom and Shea Stadium without bringing up the Seattle Kingdom??:
http://www.cysewski.com/seattleweb/p...rsquare001.jpg source Then there's the Trinity Square Car Park which is the tallest structure in the city of Gateshead, England (and currently being dismantled): http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...1024946in8.jpg source 50 Queen Anne's Gate in Westminster London: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nAnnesGate.jpg source |
Would Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC and University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, AB both be consider brutalist buildings?
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Some of these are actually really handsome. Weyerhauser, the LBJ Library, and Mairie d'Ivry: exceedingly so. LBJ, in particular, demonstrates what Brutalism can be at its best. Spare and monumental.
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