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Tell us about your favourite buildings, architects and designers. What makes you a fan of brutalism, modernism or constructivism? Are there great examples in your home town? Unsung heros? We’d love to hear from you, submit your article here or contact us for a q&a opportunity. Selected articles will be featured in Off The Béton Track

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Concrete Menageries: why were zoos drawn to modernist design?

 

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Three Titans of Viennese Modernism

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The Concrete Menagerie: Tecton at Dudley Zoo

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Aylesbury Estate In Three Pieces

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The Fading Reminders of Soviet Modernism in Central Asia

The Jested Tower and Hotel ŠJů, Wikimedia Commons

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Vladimir 518: Rethinking Architectural Narratives in Czech Architecture 1958 -1989

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‘Opposite Places, Common Traces’ at the Barbican

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We’ve a winner! Greyscape Photo Competition

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London Wall West, IMPORTANT UPDATE

A lot of voices were heard – but weren’t listened to – NEWS UPDATE.

Walden 7 in Barcelona by architect Richard Bofill

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Walden 7, Visiting A Little Piece of Utopian

How a 1948 book inspired a generation

 

bulb shaped homes in Bolwoningen Holland Architecture

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Bolwoningen Sphere Houses

Dries Kreijkamp, Dutch Architect who mused, “We all live on a sphere, so why not in a sphere?”

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London Estates; Modernist Council Housing 1946 – 1981

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Kaufmann Desert House; an iconic setting for poolside gossip

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Is Modernism Antiquated?

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Kharkiv 2024: What Now?

 

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Capturing Modernist India with John Gollings

richard Neutra

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Sunseekers: The Immigrant Architects That Created Hippie California

The Making of Lovell Health House

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Gingerbread City at the Museum of Architecture; How buildings made of sugar and spice help us understand the challenges ahead

 

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New Khmer Architecture: The work of Vann Molyvann

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John Walmsley: ‘photographing ordinary people and the interesting things they do’

Lingotto the fiat factory Italy

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The Fiat car company and its founders the Agnelli family are the perfect medium to understand the development of Italian politics, industry and design in the 20th Century. 

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A sneak peak at Lovell Health House

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Harry Seidler, the Man Who Shaped Modernism

Approaching from the drive, the eastern end of the Eames House

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Ray and Charles Eames: A Partnership Of Equals

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Richard Davis’ Backstage Pass to Madchester’s Cultural Explosion 

Eileen Gray's villa E-1027 at Cap Moderne, Roquebrune, France

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Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027

Look at the near-forgotten architect who aroused Le Corbusier’s envy

Roof Terrace of the German Hospital Bruno Court Dalston London

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The 1936 Modernist wing of the German Hospital in Hackney

A story of the best and the worst of the 20th Century

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Lea Lund and Erik K, ‘a story about love, a photographer finding her muse and a subject claiming his identity’

 

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My Brutal Life Transmitting the Power of Art

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Erich Mendelsohn’s Einsteinturm

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Calvin Seibert Builds Architectural Sandcastles

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Villa Winternitz, Adolf Loos Raumplan

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Prague, Löbau and back again; Greyscape on the Road

French architecture Emile Aillaud

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The Cloud Towers, Nanterre’s Tours Nuages

Image credit: Courtesy of University of East Anglia, Pritchard Papers

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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, a British Modernist Masterpiece; home to Agatha Christie, spies and centre of an intellectual circle

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The Inspiring Fight On The Ground To Save Berlin’s At-Risk Brutalism

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At First Ignored and Now Lost, London’s Welbeck Street Car Park

 

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London’s Czech Embassy – Brutalist and Proud

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Exploring Photographer Philippe Calandre’s Chimeric Cityscapes

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A retro-futurist vision, Hatoya Hotel, Itō, Shizuoka

Antwerp port house Interior of Zaha Hadid extension to the Antwerp Port House

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Antwerp Port House

There is a scene in Sci-Fi movies when a vast alien spaceship breaks through the clouds descends to effortlessly hover over a city.

Der Spiegel Office

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Verner Panton, the Danish architect and designer who took a generation on a psychedelic trip

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Palazzo di Giustizia di Matera

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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More Than A Bauhaus Artist. One of Modernist Germany’s most influential artists

Ouagadougou Mémorial Aux Héros National Monument Burkina Faso Architecture African ARCHITECTURE

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Burkina Faso: Visiting Ouagadougou

Where a roundabout becomes home to a ready to launch post-colonial rocket

Ilse Bing female photographers

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Galerie Berinson and the Emergence of Modern Photography

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Camino Real Polanco, Mexico City

Uncompromising, bold colours, in-your-face geometry and the brilliant use of natural light

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Imagine a republic in a spherical house located on a small hill.

There you have it, a kugel on a mugel.

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A must-have book, ‘Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

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Communist Border Signs or How To Make the Road Your Destination

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Book Publishing under Fire – Osnovy, publishing books in Kyiv

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Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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David Hoffman ‘the riot photographer’s riot photographer’

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Slovak Radio Building, Bratislava: An antidote to Social Realism

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Barbican Open Air Cinema, Daughters of the Dust -Beyonce’s inspiration

Tokyo Architecture

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Thinking outside the Box: The demolition of the Nakagin Capsule Tower and its possible reconstruction in the metaverse

 

Architect Hans Scharoun

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Haus Schminke Löbau’s Glorious Modernist ‘Noodle Steamer’

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Looking back Looking forward: What has been lost and what can still be saved

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Kharkiv 2022: What shall we do with these buildings?

 

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The Graphic History Of The British Music Scene (One Sleeve At A Time)

 

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Reclaiming Public Space WXSP: One of the best reasons to take a detour if you are heading over to the Barbican this weekend

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Brazilian architect Lelé’s big bold vision, Centro Administrativo de Bahia Salvador Brazil

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Platinum Jubilee Flypast Over the Barbican

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Will the redevelopment of Cumbernauld Town Centre be another case of Fire and Forget

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The Barbican Centre, Happy Happy

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Chernobyl, the tragedy continues

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Babyn Yar Synagogue, ‘The architectural response to the Holocaust’, architect Manuel Herz observes, ‘has been concrete and stone, as if the architecture has to be as heavy as the crime’.

 

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Getting Fired Up; The work of Ceramicist and Artist Xavier Monsalvatje

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Warsaw, packed with architectural gems. Lets walk and talk with photographer Artur Bednarczyk, blok by blok.

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Haludovo Palace Hotel, Croatia:

Penthouse Magazine founder Bob Guccione had one hell of a party on the island of Krk which came with a $45 million dollar price tag.

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A temporary city has sprung up in London made entirely from Gingerbread

Pruitt-Igoe blown up 13 March 1972

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Modernism Was Framed: The Truth About Pruitt-Igoe

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Bofill’s La Muralla Roja, a Spanish Bastion, what better way to remember Ricardo Bofill

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A pitstop in Arcosanti, Arizona’s experimental proto society with Calvin Seibert

 

60s pop band Unit 4+2 singing on the building site

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Concrete and Clay, Unit Four Plus Two, the Barbican’s First Music Video Unit Four Plus Two

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Virtual Tour of the Czech and Slovak Embassies in London | Brutal Beauty

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2020 Vision: An Interview with Gérard Grandval: In honour of Grandval’s work we publish, again, this interview with the great architect and artist.

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Nostalgia for the Future: Indian Modernism

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Okinawa: Where Brutalism Becomes Zen

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Social Condensers – changing society through architecture

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Claude Parent; Curating the legacy of a visionary architect

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Exposing the real and raw face of Bucharest

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‘Thinking Forward Through the Past’

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If you have a hankering to experience the vigour, invention and imagination of world-class street art a short walk from the Barbican Centre then head for Whitecross Street.

Marlene Poelzig Haus

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Haus Marlene Poelzig: Why erasing women from architecture history is such a bad idea

embroidery by Sasha Braulov

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Sasha Braulov and the Inspiration of Constructivism

Recreating the monumental forms of modernist buildings in traditional needlework techniques.

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Interview with Barnabas Calder:

Barnabas Calder (Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism) now, in  Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency? has written an aeon spanning architectural history that encompasses architecture’s role in causing and solving the crisis

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Futuro House: If you spotted a Futuro Pod in need of some serious care, could you just walk on by?

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High and Over Britain’s First Modernist Country House

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Remembering Gottfried Böhm whose 100th birthday was celebrated in 2020 with the exhibition: The Concrete Cathedral of Neviges. 

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Urbex: The Accidental Obsession of Modern Architecture Lovers |Why is Notre-Dame the latest subject for Urbex?

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Venice Biennale Architecture 2021 asks How will we live together?

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Jordane Saget is leaving his mark on Paris

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Othernity – Reconditioning Our Modern Heritage, the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

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The Garden of Privatised Delights: The British Pavilion, Venice Biennale Architettura 2021

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Jo’s Art History Podcast with Greyscape | The Barbican Living in an Architectural Experiment

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The Barbican – Concrete Community

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New Brutalists’ “Japanese” Pavilions: The Smithsons and Theo Crosby

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Shining a light on Slovakian Architectural heritage, Čierne diery

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Negozio Olivetti by Carlo Scarpa: Adriano Olivetti a man with a vision who worked to ensure that it was hardwired into his company.

 

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Its music to the ears of fans of brutalist architecture, Les Orgues de Flandre now has its deserved protected status.

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Journey into the heart of German Modernism with Anael Berkovitz

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Villa Kaplansky Antwerp

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

Kelenföld District 11 Budapest

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District 11 Budapest: Kelenföld, reimagining a dormitory district

 

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Spomeniks – a heroic and terrible history caught in concrete

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

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

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A window of opportunity

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Banjica Бањица, neighbourhood, Belgrade, Serbia

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

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

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Trellick Tower 2021 Campaign #SaveTrellickHallofFame

 

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Ballinhaus: Call it by its name

bethesda residence photographer boris feldblyum

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One Photographer’s Journey

It all started with a Smena 1 Camera

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A San Diego Story

brutalist architecture in Skopje

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How an earthquake brought Kenzo Tange to Skopje

Berthold Lubetkin Bevin Court above buried Lenin bust

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

Gingerbread City for MoA

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

It Takes A Village To Build A Gingerbread City

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.

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The Accidental Archivist: George Smart and USModernist

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

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Sovietinio Modernizmo Kino Teatras Panevėžyje, Lietuvoje – pavojuje

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#TheViewFromMyWindowPhotoProject

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

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

Hotel Parus Dnipro

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An Insider’s Guide to Dnipro

Opening up a Closed City

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Plattenbauten: Behind the Facade

barbican video shoot for 'Dreams'

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

 

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

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#SOSBrutalism: Saving Beloved Concrete Monsters

Entrance boarded up Buzludzha Memorial House

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When the message associated with a symbol changes:

What should Bulgaria do with the Buzludzha Memorial House?

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

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Examining Unité d’Habitation in Nantes-Rezé:

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

Fighting for the preservation of important cultural heritage

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The Constructivist Project

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A love affair with Soviet Bus Stops

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Spying On Moscow: Architecture Photographer Denis Esakov Reveals His Process

Soaring columns add to the majesty of Chandigarh's High Court

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Edmund Sumner: Another great artist gets behind #artistsupportpledge

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

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

 

chermayeff brothers on Manhatten street with Red 9 street art

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

 

bobsleigh track with graffiti

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A Journey through Modernist Architecture in the former Yugoslavia

petrol station forecourt and petrol pump

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Sense of Now

Beyond the highway

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Liebling Haus Tel Aviv

Modernism in the White City

soviet inspired photomontage of building and worker in Tashkent

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Post-Socialist Realism – Contemporary Soviet Collages

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Ancient Georgia’s Concrete Marvels

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Créteil’s concrete petals in the eyes of a visitor

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Night photography. Recording a city against a velvet blue backdrop

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

genex tower view from below Belgrade

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Brutalist Belgrade

Dream destination for brutalist architecture fans

preston brutalist bus station

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Happy Birthday Preston Bus Station!

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Belgium Brutalist Architectural Gems

brutalist social housing in london borough of camden

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Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate British Brutalist Architecture Through Russian Eyes

art work at Pallasseum Sozialpalast Berlin

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Berlin’s Concrete Pallasseum and What Lies Beneath

Robin Hood Gardens Brutalist masterpiece demolition

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Imperfect Beauty: photographing a city’s life-cycle

BARBIcan architects 1953

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My Father, One Of The Men Who Designed The Barbican

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Thoughts from a Corbusian Completist

Facade city hall Bobigny

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

 

Kiev Crematorium architect A. Miletsky

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One Brutalist Fan’s Short Trip Hotspots

Oscar Niemeyer concrete Edificio Copan

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São Paulo living – Oscar Niemeyer’s Edificio Copan

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

 

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

 

 

gdansk polish architecture

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

Barbican Archives Films part of Barbican 50 celebrations

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The Barbican Archive Mixtape

A cinematic cut-and-paste journey through the Barbican

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

African Modernist Architecture

 

The Brutalist, abandoned House of the Soviets, Kalininigrad by Alexander Shevtsov

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

Unfinished but not unloved.

Die Pfarrkirche St. Florian Margareten Vienna Austria

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VIENNA: BAROQUE AND BRUTALISM

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

Akademiebusen concrete spheres Aldershof Germany

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Akademiebusen, Lost in Concrete

Attention-grabbing huge DDR era concrete brutalist spheres

 

Gardenstadt Falkenberg German Modernist Estate

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Six modernist Berlin housing settlements that UNESCO love

Sardar Patel Municipal Cricket Stadium

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

Mobius Strip Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Russia ARCHITECTURE

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Constructivism: A New Generation Discovers its Heritage

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

 

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Becoming GreyScape

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

Bucharest modernist villa architect Roger Bolomey Romanian architecture

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Modernist Bucharest

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

brutalist towerblock made from lego bricks by brutesinlego

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@Brutesinlego – Building In Concrete Brick By Lego Brick

Creative brutalist designs with #elsawithdots and #felixiraptor

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Druzhba Sanatorium 

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Moisei Reischer’s 1931 Constructivist White Tower

When the dial was reset in Russia.

 

concrete brutalism in atarim square

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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’.

Alison and Peter Smithson Robin Hood Gardens demolition

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Robin Hood Gardens

Why the V&A took an unprecedented step

 

weizmann house lit at night

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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.

Concrete roof John Lautner Sheats Goldstein House

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The Sheats-Goldstein Residence

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

Filmmaker Joe Gilbert, maker of Barbican|Urban Poetry

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We speak to the maker of Barbican|Urban Poetry

Joe Gilbert, award-winning documentary filmmaker

Brutalist Japanese sports stadium, Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

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Kenzo Tange, A Man With A Plan

Japan’s post war brutalist visitor favourite still suspends belief

soviet playground in the abandoned Pioneer Camp of the Karacharovo Mechanical Plant Russian Soviet architecture

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Karacharovo Mechanical Plant

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

Czech Modernist Villa Volman newly restored

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Villa Volman

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

bedroom of Melnikov House in Moscow family bedroom with golden walls

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The Melnikov House

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

view of two blocks of the at risk Alton Estate

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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

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New York New York

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

Berlin's TV Tower view from a high building

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FERNSEHTURM

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

Berlin Hufeisensiedlung Bruno Taut

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