Brutalist (217)

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  An Icon of Brutalist Architecture Gets a Second Life as a Hotel

  … that we can find a more sustainable way to live with the infrastructure previous generations built. Whether it's running electric cars along the highways, putting up solar panels in the parking lots, sealing building envelopes more tightly, or simply finding a new use for an old building. You may also enjoy “In Omaha …

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  Hacker Architects Brings a Brutalist Public Library into the 21st Century

  … heavy Brutalist structures. “There’s so much embodied energy, and tearing them down is not what to do,” she says. “We need to make them more loved.” Here, they succeeded—to the point where the private Salem Library Foundation poured an extra $620,000 into the project, for five design enhancements suggested by the …

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  How England's Brutalist Buildings Are Getting Second Lives

  … into the thinking behind the original design. Our subsequent design – for Henley Homes— added 149 new homes, landscaped gardens, secluded plazas, and community facilities that re-connect back to the wider neighbourhood.  The project provides a diversity of housing unit sizes and types, from one-bed apartments through to large family townhouses. Some 46 …

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  LED-Powered "Waterfall" Transforms Brutalist Tower in Madison

  … is now one of the most well-known in the entire city,” Hovde says. “It’s accomplished everything that we’d asked for.” The mural spatially and visually integrates the building into the adjacent urban space and, given the buzz and intrigue surrounding its completion, is also acquiring a communal significance. For Brown, the …

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  A Brutalist Building in Harlem Gets Updated to Connect with Its Neighbors

  … historically significant buildings isn’t in giving them a second life—it’s preparing them for later reincarnations.

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  A Brutalist Landmark and Skateboarding Mecca in London Is Restored

  … perhaps saw skating as a nuisance. But they saw … a space being closed to young people to do creative things as an issue they could get behind.” For Maclure, at stake is keeping a space for young people to spend time safely and freely. “Amidst a huge cut in spending for young people, youth …

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  A Brutalist House in São Paulo Gets a Modern Refresh

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  The Smithsons' Brutalist Tower is Restored in London

  … Speyer (whose portfolio includes Rockefeller Center and Yankee Stadium, no less) in 2016 and the magazine moved on. Following the acquisition, Tishman Speyer appointed London-based architects DSDHA who have been engaged in what director Deborah Saunt describes as a “sympathetic conversation” with the original structures. Adaptations to the complex by SOM in the …

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  Croxton Collaborative Architects Revives a Brutalist Building at SUNY New Paltz

  … When the bars have reached the top step they mark the summer solstice; on the bottom step, the equinoxes. Croxton says of this modern-day sundial, “The daily event evokes a narrative among participants about the universal, authentic attributes of this place.” You may also enjoy "How England’s Brutalist Buildings Are Getting Second Lives."

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  How to Restore Glazing on a Brutalist Building

  … converting, rehabilitating, or reusing mid-century buildings. Upcoming posts will explore issues associated with this conservation, drawing on the firm’s long-term experience working on the repair, enhancement, and continued use of this architecture. Mini-case studies of buildings will include the MIT Stratton Student Center by Eduardo Catalano; Harvard University’s Peabody …