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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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In 1966 Scarpa was commissioned to design a new entry for the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, located in the former Tolentino monastery. He made two designs, a second in 1972 which was carried out after his death by his assistant Sergio Los. Here, Scarpa proposed using a massive Istrian door frame and pediment salvaged from the monastery, which is placed on the ground in a back corner of the small entry court above a concrete pool, the sides and bottom of which were made of right angled steps forming both a diagonal wall and ziggurat. The outer wall of the court is a stepped ziggurat with a projecting stone slab above the entrance. To the left is a large Istrian stone slab inscribed with the school’s initials and Vico’s aphorism ‘Verum Ipsum Factum’ (we only know what we make or, truth in making).
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The former AT&T Long Lines Building at 33 Thomas Street is a 170 meters skyscraper in the Borough of Manhattan, New York. It stands on the East side of Church Street, between Thomas and Worth Streets. The building was designed by architect John Carl Warnecke and completed in 1974. As it was built to house telephone switching equipment, the structure does not have windows, only a series of large, protruding ventilation openings on the 10th and 29th floors. The exterior walls are precast concrete panels clad with flame-treated textured Swedish granite faces.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Jerome Greene Hall (sometimes referred to simply as Greene) is the primary home of Columbia Law School and is one of a number of buildings put up in succession by Columbia in the 1960s. The building was designed by GSAPP alum Max Abramovitz of the firm Harrison and Abramovitz, better known for their work on Lincoln Center. The window boxes on the two narrow ends of the building, often described as being fit for a Mussolini-esque dictator to salute the masses, have earned the building its nickname of "the toaster." The building opened in the fall of 1961, and a mural recognizing donors for the building is on the western wall of the main lobby.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The Mariano Moreno National Library of the Argentine Republic is the largest library in Argentina. Located in Buenos Aires at the same plot of the former Unzué Palace, the official residence where President Juan Perón and his late wife Evita use to lived. The Brutalist-style structure was envisioned by the architectural team of Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich, and Alicia Cazzaniga in 1961, though construction did not begin until 1971. The whole complex was inaugurated and open to the public on April 10, 1992.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The New York State Pavilion is a historic world's fair pavilion at Flushing Meadows, Corona Park in Flushing, Queens, New York. The New York State Pavilion was designed in 1962 for the 1964 New York World's Fair by architects Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, with structural engineer Lev Zetlin. The pavilion consists of three components of reinforced concrete and steel construction: the "Tent of Tomorrow", Observation Towers, and "Theaterama".
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Buenos Aires is known for its Parisian and Art Deco style architecture, but Brutalism has also left an indelible mark on the Argentinian capital.
Torre Dorrego is one of many examples of that. Inaugurated in 1971, it took just 900 days to finish the ambitious structure, at the time the most voluminous building in the whole country.
In the late sixties, a local cooperative called for designs for a residential project mainly intended for members of the armed forces. The architects Caffarini, Joselevich and Ricur won it in 1968.
With a constrained budget and following the new modern style, the architects bend the traditional block of flats into this unusual hollowed-out half crescent design which encircles an internal patio allowing and uninterrupted distribution of sunlight during the day. This unique shape also gives it a certain lightness to the whole composition.
The convex/concave tower has 30 floors, 240 flats and reaches 102 meters height. The elevators, stairways and service shafts are located on the concave side of the building. As it was built by a cooperative, there are just four flat layouts, each with two or three bedrooms and an optional study.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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78 South Hill Park was designed by the architect Brian Housden in 1958 to live in with his family. The construction took a period of two years, between 1963 to 1965. The house is supported by reinforced concrete ground beams and the walls are faced with Venetian white glass mosaic, panels of glass lenses and bands of narrow steel windows.
The remarkable architecture and the story behind the building have deserved recognition with a grade 2 listing.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The Galileo Galilei planetarium, commonly known as the “Planetario”, is located in Parque Tres de Febrero in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building was designed by architect Enrique Jan in 1962, and it was inaugurated on December 20, 1966 but in 1968 the whole facility was opened to the public. The structure has five floors, six staircases and a 20 metres (66 ft) diameter room with 360 seats. The inside of the 20m semispherical dome is covered with reflective aluminium. Last frame shows Ray Bradbury himself posing next to the Planetarium, when he visited Buenos Aires in 1997 for the Feria del Libro. That visit included an extensive talk, carried out by him, about the parallelism between his well known novel: Martian chronicles and the building itself. 🇦🇷
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Columbus Towers or Torres de Colón is a highrise office building composed of two twin towers located nearby Plaza de Colón in Madrid, Spain. The whole building constructed in 1976 was designed by the Spanish architect Antonio Lamela. The structure is locally known as "El Enchufe" or "The Plug" for the plug-like structure that binds the two towers together.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Portland House was designed as the centre-piece of the Stag Place development built between 1959 and 1964 by architect Howard Fairbairn & Partners. It’s massive scheme covered a 6-acre site and replaced the Watney’s Brewery buildings of the same name. The ‘Stag Brewery’ had been in operation on the site since the 17th century and was in production until its closure in 1959.
Although it reaches a relatively modest height of 334 feet, Portland House dominates Victoria completely and intrudes into many views of St James’s and Green Park. Upon exiting the nearby mainline station, any visitor is struck first by its grey bulk set against a ramshackle of remaining Victorian piles.
The shape of Portland House is characterised by the tapering of its footprint towards its ends. This has created a loose octagon cross-section which owes much to influential examples like Gio Ponti’s 1958 Pirelli Tower in Milan.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline. It also stands as one the most complicated and innovative reinforced concrete structures of the era, where numerous Brutalist towers were rising up across Europe, this tower approached the high-rise equation from a different angle, absent of the typical rectilinear qualities associated with the cast-in-place concrete. áenzdeoiza
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Jan 31 2018 GMT08:52
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The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline. It also stands as one the most complicated and innovative reinforced concrete structures of the era, where numerous Brutalist towers were rising up across Europe, this tower approached the high-rise equation from a different angle, absent of the typical rectilinear qualities associated with the cast-in-place concrete. áenzdeoiza
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May 01 2018 GMT23:29
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The Mariano Moreno National Library of the Argentine Republic is the largest library in Argentina. Located in Buenos Aires at the same plot of the former Unzué Palace, the official residence where President Juan Perón and his late wife Evita use to lived. The Brutalist-style structure was envisioned by the architectural team of Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich, and Alicia Cazzaniga in 1961, though construction did not begin until 1971. The whole complex was inaugurated and open to the public on April 10, 1992.
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Mar 05 2018 GMT21:58
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The Galileo Galilei planetarium, commonly known as the “Planetario”, is located in Parque Tres de Febrero in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building was designed by architect Enrique Jan in 1962, and it was inaugurated on December 20, 1966 but in 1968 the whole facility was opened to the public. The structure has five floors, six staircases and a 20 metres (66 ft) diameter room with 360 seats. The inside of the 20m semispherical dome is covered with reflective aluminium. Last frame shows Ray Bradbury himself posing next to the Planetarium, when he visited Buenos Aires in 1997 for the Feria del Libro. That visit included an extensive talk, carried out by him, about the parallelism between his well known novel: Martian chronicles and the building itself. 🇦🇷
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Jan 31 2018 GMT08:52
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The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline. It also stands as one the most complicated and innovative reinforced concrete structures of the era, where numerous Brutalist towers were rising up across Europe, this tower approached the high-rise equation from a different angle, absent of the typical rectilinear qualities associated with the cast-in-place concrete. áenzdeoiza
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Jun 08 2018 GMT20:34
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The former AT&T Long Lines Building at 33 Thomas Street is a 170 meters skyscraper in the Borough of Manhattan, New York. It stands on the East side of Church Street, between Thomas and Worth Streets. The building was designed by architect John Carl Warnecke and completed in 1974. As it was built to house telephone switching equipment, the structure does not have windows, only a series of large, protruding ventilation openings on the 10th and 29th floors. The exterior walls are precast concrete panels clad with flame-treated textured Swedish granite faces.
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Feb 15 2018 GMT00:02
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Portland House was designed as the centre-piece of the Stag Place development built between 1959 and 1964 by architect Howard Fairbairn & Partners. It’s massive scheme covered a 6-acre site and replaced the Watney’s Brewery buildings of the same name. The ‘Stag Brewery’ had been in operation on the site since the 17th century and was in production until its closure in 1959.
Although it reaches a relatively modest height of 334 feet, Portland House dominates Victoria completely and intrudes into many views of St James’s and Green Park. Upon exiting the nearby mainline station, any visitor is struck first by its grey bulk set against a ramshackle of remaining Victorian piles.
The shape of Portland House is characterised by the tapering of its footprint towards its ends. This has created a loose octagon cross-section which owes much to influential examples like Gio Ponti’s 1958 Pirelli Tower in Milan.
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