le havre volcan lit

Constructing the Concrete City; the post-war rebuilding of the port of Le Havre

12th March 2021
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Kelenföld District 11 Budapest

District 11 Budapest: Kelenföld, reimagining a dormitory district

 

9th March 2021
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concrete spomenik

Spomeniks – a heroic and terrible history caught in concrete

23rd February 2021
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in a golden light turin castle

Turin or Torino, both correct…it just depends on who you ask.

15th February 2021
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no longer accessible

Soviet-era Cinema in Panevezys, Lithuania could not be saved

3rd March 2021
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A window of opportunity

6th March 2021
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housing in Banjica, Serbia

Banjica Бањица, neighbourhood, Belgrade, Serbia

11th February 2021
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scapa design detail

The Tomba Brion Cemetery: Inside Carlo Scarpa’s Last Great Concrete Masterpiece

4th February 2021
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chamberlin Powell and bON

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s other spot; Vanbrugh Park

10th July 2019
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SaveTrellickHallOfFame

Trellick Tower 2021 Campaign #SaveTrellickHallofFame

 

18th February 2021
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Ballinhaus: Call it by its name

26th January 2021
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bethesda residence photographer boris feldblyum

One Photographer’s Journey

It all started with a Smena 1 Camera

2nd January 2019
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parking lot of Sears department store

A San Diego Story

14th January 2021
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brutalist architecture in Skopje

How an earthquake brought Kenzo Tange to Skopje

13th January 2021
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Berthold Lubetkin Bevin Court above buried Lenin bust

Very nearly called Lenin Court, Lubetkin’s Modernist Icon Bevin Court in the ‘Socialist Republic of Finsbury’

17th March 2019
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Gingerbread City for MoA

Take Part In The Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread House City Exhibition:

It Takes A Village To Build A Gingerbread City

18th December 2020
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This photo oozes the optimism of US mid-century modernism. Richard Spencer's modernist house in Santa Monica. The famous Julian Shulman photograph with Spencer and his then wife Josephine Caruso standing either side of the fireplace.

The Accidental Archivist: George Smart and USModernist

9th December 2020
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street art london sam kerridge

Sam Kerridge: Processing Cityscapes, grab your camera and follow the geotags

5th December 2020
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soviet era cinema in lithuania

Sovietinio Modernizmo Kino Teatras Panevėžyje, Lietuvoje – pavojuje

8th March 2021
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corbusier's family home in Lausanne image at sunset towards the lake

#TheViewFromMyWindowPhotoProject

A Global Photo Project Documenting Self-Isolation In The Age Of Covid-19

7th November 2020
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concrete roof brutalist architecture in Canberra

From a Spoiled Sheep Station to a Modern Marvel: Modernism in Australia’s National Capital

14th August 2020
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Hotel Parus Dnipro

An Insider’s Guide to Dnipro

Opening up a Closed City

8th August 2020
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looking down on to rooftop detail of handmade model plattebau

Plattenbauten: Behind the Facade

5th October 2020
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barbican video shoot for 'Dreams'

Singer-songwriter Genevieve offers a Dreamy insiders view from the 42nd floor of the Barbican

 

10th November 2020
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picasso mural behind scaffolding

Oslo’s most important International Modernist building ultimately disappeared before our eyes 

30th July 2020
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town hall brutalist architecture

#SOSBrutalism: Saving Beloved Concrete Monsters

15th July 2020
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Entrance boarded up Buzludzha Memorial House

When the message associated with a symbol changes:

What should Bulgaria do with the Buzludzha Memorial House?

28th August 2020
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completed eastern block model

Brutalist Crafts: Building The Paper Panelki Model Kit, One Careful Fold At a Time

4th July 2020
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unite d'habitation Nantes Rezé view of facade

Examining Unité d’Habitation in Nantes-Rezé:

La Maison Radieus Is The Perfect Introduction Into Le Corbusier’s Vision For City Planning

8th June 2020
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Fighting for the preservation of important cultural heritage

The Constructivist Project

7th June 2020
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uzbek bus stop by roadside

A love affair with Soviet Bus Stops

28th May 2020
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view of upper section of ostankino tower moscow

Spying On Moscow: Architecture Photographer Denis Esakov Reveals His Process

4th May 2020
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Soaring columns add to the majesty of Chandigarh's High Court

Edmund Sumner: Another great artist gets behind #artistsupportpledge

23rd April 2020
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Not a church but used for weddings but might be mistaken for a place of worship, the Palace of Ceremonies and Rituals

Explore The Former Soviet Union With An Exclusive GreyScape – Soviet ★ Tours – Curated Visit

 

15th March 2020
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chermayeff brothers on Manhatten street with Red 9 street art

Meet The Chermaveffs, The Architects That Had An ‘Incredible’ Impact On Sir Norman Foster

 

6th March 2020
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bobsleigh track with graffiti

A Journey through Modernist Architecture in the former Yugoslavia

28th February 2020
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petrol station forecourt and petrol pump

Sense of Now

Beyond the highway

13th February 2020
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liebling house view of facade from street

Liebling Haus Tel Aviv

Modernism in the White City

30th January 2020
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soviet inspired photomontage of building and worker in Tashkent

Post-Socialist Realism – Contemporary Soviet Collages

24th January 2020
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brutalist architecture bank hq in georgia

Ancient Georgia’s Concrete Marvels

14th November 2019
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french brutalist architecture balconies

Créteil’s concrete petals in the eyes of a visitor

30th October 2019
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long exposure shot of london eye lit in red

Night photography. Recording a city against a velvet blue backdrop

19th October 2019
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walking around the barbican estate

Off the béton track: The Barbican Archive Residency: 19-20 October 2019

10th October 2019
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genex tower view from below Belgrade

Brutalist Belgrade

Dream destination for brutalist architecture fans

5th October 2019
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preston brutalist bus station

Happy Birthday Preston Bus Station!

21st September 2019
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Juliaan Lampens brutalist house belgium

Belgium Brutalist Architectural Gems

11th September 2019
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brutalist social housing in london borough of camden

Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate British Brutalist Architecture Through Russian Eyes

4th September 2019
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art work at Pallasseum Sozialpalast Berlin

Berlin’s Concrete Pallasseum and What Lies Beneath

8th August 2019
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Robin Hood Gardens Brutalist masterpiece demolition

Imperfect Beauty: photographing a city’s life-cycle

24th July 2019
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BARBIcan architects 1953

My Father, One Of The Men Who Designed The Barbican

24th July 2019
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corbusier architecture france

Thoughts from a Corbusian Completist

16th July 2019
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Facade city hall Bobigny

Why The Brutalism Appreciation Society’s Murray Tompsett Had To Visit Bobigny and Beyond

 

14th June 2019
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Kiev Crematorium architect A. Miletsky

One Brutalist Fan’s Short Trip Hotspots

13th June 2019
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Oscar Niemeyer concrete Edificio Copan

São Paulo living – Oscar Niemeyer’s Edificio Copan

Love at first sight, David Torrance shares why he’s smitten

 

8th June 2019
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brutalist hotel thermal

Hotel Thermal, Věra Machoninová and Vladimir Machonin’s important brutalist building

 

 

6th June 2019
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gdansk polish architecture

Bloki: Poland’s Architecture Journey Through Communism: From interwar years Modernism to communist bloki through a photographers lens

13th April 2019
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Barbican Archives Films part of Barbican 50 celebrations

The Barbican Archive Mixtape

A cinematic cut-and-paste journey through the Barbican

4th June 2019
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cote d'ivoire hotel ivoire sofitel

Exploring one of West Africa’s modernist landmarks, Hotel Ivoire

African Modernist Architecture

 

4th May 2019
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The Brutalist, abandoned House of the Soviets, Kalininigrad by Alexander Shevtsov

Kaliningrad’s House of the Soviets, the Unintended Brutalist Monument to the USSR

Unfinished but not unloved.

6th April 2019
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Die Pfarrkirche St. Florian Margareten Vienna Austria

VIENNA: BAROQUE AND BRUTALISM

Join us on a dive into brutalist Vienna, a city well known for that other Italian import, the Baroque

2nd April 2019
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Akademiebusen concrete spheres Aldershof Germany

Akademiebusen, Lost in Concrete

Attention-grabbing huge DDR era concrete brutalist spheres

 

25th March 2019
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Gardenstadt Falkenberg German Modernist Estate

Six modernist Berlin housing settlements that UNESCO love

12th March 2019
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Sardar Patel Municipal Cricket Stadium

In the words of RIBA ‘India’s Greatest Architect’ Charles Correa

6th March 2019
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Mobius Strip Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Russia ARCHITECTURE

Constructivism: A New Generation Discovers its Heritage

In the territory of a fresh-pair-of-eyes, Eugeny Korolev is exploring Moscow’s Soviet architecture.

 

10th February 2019
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brutalist architecture barbican estate view of barbican lake

Becoming GreyScape

Concrete apartment blocks weighing tens of thousands of tons on soaring columns

9th February 2019
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Bucharest modernist villa architect Roger Bolomey Romanian architecture

Modernist Bucharest

Preserving it’s modernist architecture and why we should care about it

3rd February 2019
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brutalist towerblock made from lego bricks by brutesinlego

@Brutesinlego – Building In Concrete Brick By Lego Brick

Creative brutalist designs with #elsawithdots and #felixiraptor

5th January 2019
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arial view of sanitorium druzbha

Druzhba Sanatorium 

15th December 2018
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constructivist architecture the white tower

Moisei Reischer’s 1931 Constructivist White Tower

When the dial was reset in Russia.

 

17th December 2018
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concrete brutalism in atarim square

The Shrooms Have Gone

Yaacov Rechter’s iconic, brutalist, concrete, otherworldly canopies popped up on the cover of ‘Men Of North Country’s ‘This City’.

30th November 2018
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Alison and Peter Smithson Robin Hood Gardens demolition

Robin Hood Gardens

Why the V&A took an unprecedented step

 

13th November 2017
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weizmann house lit at night

Weizmann House by Erich Mendelsohn

When a man with a big vision commissioned a man who could interpret that vision and make it his own.

11th November 2018
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Concrete roof John Lautner Sheats Goldstein House

The Sheats-Goldstein Residence

Winding private roads and cultured ferns keep James Goldstein’s John Lautner property away from prying eyes

4th November 2018
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Filmmaker Joe Gilbert, maker of Barbican|Urban Poetry

We speak to the maker of Barbican|Urban Poetry

Joe Gilbert, award-winning documentary filmmaker

21st October 2018
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Brutalist Japanese sports stadium, Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

Kenzo Tange, A Man With A Plan

Japan’s post war brutalist visitor favourite still suspends belief

13th November 2017
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soviet playground in the abandoned Pioneer Camp of the Karacharovo Mechanical Plant Russian Soviet architecture

Karacharovo Mechanical Plant

The wonders of google threw up a declassified 1954 CIA Intelligence document

30th November 2017
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Czech Modernist Villa Volman newly restored

Villa Volman

Why was this Modernist house a short distance from Prague neglected and ignored for decades?

5th January 2018
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bedroom of Melnikov House in Moscow family bedroom with golden walls

The Melnikov House

A family home for a prominent man, yet everyone slept in a single bedroom. 

11th July 2017
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view of two blocks of the at risk Alton Estate

Alton Estate

The famed estate in Roehampton is at risk. Home to several thousand in a mix of flats and maisonettes, a perfect example of the work Rosemary Stjernstedt and her design team at the London County Council in the 1950s

16th November 2017
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New York New York

Manhatten, home town for three years and an adventure playground for fans of concrete and cocktails.

10th March 2018
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Berlin's TV Tower view from a high building

FERNSEHTURM

There are a few really peachy places to visit to photograph a modern architectural icon

13th November 2017
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Berlin Hufeisensiedlung Bruno Taut

Berlin: A Magnificent Architectural Journey
A key city in Europe that has regularly been remade.

8th July 2017
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