A small disused garage renovated by Act Romegialli Architects. as an accessory to a weekend house, situated on the slopes of the Raethian Alp.
A structure realized with lightweight metal galvanized profiles and steel wires wraps the existent volume and transforms it into a tridimensional support for the climbing vegetation.
Inside the Green box are organized a room for the gardening tools, great passion of the owner,an area for coking and a space for conviviality.
Photos by Marcello Mariana
Australian illustrator James Gulliver Hancock jeopardizes accurate perspective , proportion and color to add a childlike, colorful and playful interpretation of buildings. The sketches are from his new book “All the Buildings in New York *That I’ve Drawn So Far” by Universe Publishing (Rizzoli). It would be so nice if the city was really looking like that!
A Chinese newspaper’s headquarters (as seen from one angle) conveying the right message for prees freedom in China. Via Dezzen
The Gervasutti bivouac is prefabricated high tech climber’s hostel commissioned by CAI Torino, the Italian Alpine Club on Mt. Blanc, Italy, designed by LEAPfactory.
The hostel is named after the great Italian mountaineer Guisto Gervasutti and looks out over the same mountain range he was the first to conquer – the east face of the Grandes Jorasses – which he scaled in 1942.
The Gervasutti shelter is solar-powered and equipped with a unit to measure local conditions (self-diagnosis, weather conditions, web-cam, emergency rescue communication) connected with logistic and rescue headquarters. The shelter offers a sanitary module with a biological toilet, wooden bunk beds, living area with kitchenette and a breathtaking view above Freboudze glacier.
Private residence in Kifissia, Greece designed by Tense Architecture Network, aka architects Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros and Nestoras Kanellos.
Photographs by Filippo Poli
A gut renovation of an old school building and a 17th century gentleman’s house in Grimbergen, Belgium, by DMVA architects.
The ground floor is organized as living area / open kitchen and the the first floor is multifunctional. The rooftop terrace and pool (103 m2) are supported by a new reinforced concrete structure integrated within the shell of the abandoned school building.
Photos by Frederik Vercruysse
Location: Russian village of Kamarchaga, Siberian taiga
Artist/Designer/Architect: Pensioner Olga Kostina
Material: 30.000 plastic bottle caps
Technique: conventional macrame technique of weaving and knit knots
via Demilked
Hotel Zlatibor in the Serbian city of Užice opened its doors on 24 September 1981. It was designed by a (then) young architect Svetlana Radovic and nicknamed ”Sivonja,” which means “The Gray Ox,” an affectionate reference to its color and shape. Luxuriously designed with a piano bar and rooms dressed in brown velvet and employing he best chefs, waiters, confectioners and other service personnel the Grey Ox was both a tourist magnet and a symbol of of Yugoslav confidence. During the 90s and in connection with the collapse of Yugoslavia, the sanctions against Serbia and consequently the complete lack of maintenance, the building started steadily decaying. Nowadays, the Ox might be old but it still maintains its strength: beautiful and dynamic architecture and the hotel still operating!
I love that picture because It shows the context in which this bold building was built and how pioneering and progressive architecture can be.
Pictures taken on April 2013 by WWT
Story of hotel Zlatibor VIA
Booking here
Fuck Yeah Brutalism is a great blog that celebrates the movement with so many imposing buildings that bring tears of pleasure in your eyes (and make it very hard to decide which ones to post). WWT holds dear thoughts of béton armé and its graceful application and hopes that blogs like Fuck Yeah Brutalism will help to bring bruto-skepticals back to their senses and make them passionately exclaim “Such clarity! Such elegance! Such beauty! “
Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami, Florida, 1972, by Ferendino Grafton Spillis Candela
Primary School, Quarzazate, Morocco, 1966, by Jean-François Zevaco
Osaka University of the Arts, Japan, 1965-67 by Daiichi Kobo Planning Group
Fairydean Football Club Stand, Galashiels, Scotland, 1963
Post Office, Agadir, Morocco, 1966 by Jean-François Zevaco
Pilgrimage Church, Neviges, Germany, 1965-68 by Gottfried Böhm
see our other posts on Brutalism in Egland here , on Brutalism in USSR here and on arcane Brutalism (yes, it exists!) here.
he couldn’t believe how easy it was
he put the gun into his face
bang!
(so much blood from such a tiny little hole)
problems have solutions
a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash
everything’s blue
in this world
the deepest shade of mushroom blue
all fuzzy
spilling out of my head
(Nine Inch Nails, 1994)
On decay and abandonment: a Russian Missile factory, a theater in Chicago, the House of the Communist Party in Bulgaria, a power plant in Ultrecht and a dreamland in Japan are going down the downward spiral.
Listen to the downward spiral here.
Images via the Idialist.
A critical proposal on the Acropolis Museum in Athens competitions, completed in 1991 by Greek architect and professor Christos Papoulias (pdf link).
The architect suggests a museum entirely below the ground surface, build in a now invisible 17m high gap between two walls of the rocks’ phases, the Mycenaean and the Classical when the Acropolis’ rock was significantly expanded to it’s current retaining wall.
Uncovered by early 20th century excavations between the two walls, this gap today is visible only through a series of shafts left by the archaeologists (scroll for photos).These shafts and the now buried gap between the two retaining walls of the acropolis became the site for Christos Papoulias’ Erichthonean Museum of Acropolis proposal.
The museum would inhabit the south and south east part of the Acropolis plateau and could be visible only through it’s entrance. One of the existing caves would offer an exit down to the south side of the acropolis hill, leading the visitor to the fascinating but mostly overlooked theater of Dionysus and other important archaeological sites like the Odeion of Perikles, the choregic monuments, the Asklepieion, the stoa of Eumenes and the Odeion of Herodes Atticus.
The walls of Erichthonean museum would be the originally visible base 17m high base of the Parthenon and the floor a series of carefully placed platforms, would mimic the roughly poured concrete that the archaeologists have long used to make the slippery rock accesible to visitors.
Illustrations of fictional metadata forms into the physical space (article for Weave mag 05.11), created by Berlin based design studio Onformative, (Julia Laub and Cedric Kiefer) in collaboration with designer and programmer Christopher Warnow, using the photographic technique of procedural lightpainting.
The lightpainting technique from Christopher Warnow
via proof
Electronic Urbanism, an avant-garde speculative project on town planning and electronics, by Takis Zenetos (1926-1977), the brilliant architect who designed some of the most beautiful buildings in Greece during the 60′s and early 70′s.
The basic idea of Electronic Urbanism, which Zenetos designed, developed and investigated from 1952 to 1974, is the creation of a system with diverse levels and locations for different urban functions, primarily residential, suspended from natural environments (as cantilevers or mountains) and integrated with all communications technologies, that allow wide-ranging connections among people and social groups.
A high end guest house build into an abandon medieval ex-royal castle in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Designed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects for the Landmark Trust.
Astley is a unified site of great complexity and resonance: moated castle, gateway and vestigial curtain walls, lake, church and the ghost of pleasure gardens all combine in a picturesque landscape of great power. The Astley Castle can accommodate 8 people. You may book here.
A proposal to turn the abandoned Battersea Power Station in South West London into a museum and amusement park, from the French Atelier Zündel Cristea (AZN), winners of the ArchTriumph competition Museum of Architecture, 2013.
The 80-year old decommissioned building is located on the south banks of the river Thames surrounded by a mix of residential, industrial, office typologies and a nearby train station and park.
Built between 1930 and 1955, the victorian style design is an excellent example of original art deco interiors, constructed with steel frames and brick cladding and four concrete smoke stacks towering 103 meters above the ground; the coal-based electrical energy producing factory will be converted
into a venue for the exhibition of architecture from the middle ages to the contemporary age.
AZN on project’s concept : Our created pathway links together a number of spaces for discovery: the square in front of the museum, clearings, footpaths outside and above and inside, footpaths traversing courtyards and exhibition rooms. The angles and perspectives created by the rail’s pathway, through the movement within and outside of the structure, place visitors in a position where they can perceive simultaneously the container and its contents, the work and nature.
via the fox is black + designboom
Previously: A trampoline Paris Bridge by Atelier Zündel Cristea
The Sunset House an absolutely gorgeous cabin in West Virginia, built entirely from reclaimed woods and frames from junkyards by the owners Lilah and Nick.
