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Brutalist Vancouver building that hasn’t dated

LB — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:17:54 +0000

(Thanks to Steven Ballegeer for this photo on Flickr)

Just to prove I don’t hate all tall buildings, this early 1970s brutalist concrete highrise in Vancouver is a long-time favourite of mine, and one that I think has held up really well over the years.

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Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri

LB — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:47:04 +0000

Arcosanti, designed by Italian-born architect Paolo Soleri, is an experimental architectural complex perched on the side of a gulch in the Arizona desert, about 70 miles north of Phoenix.

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Concrete planters. What happened? Whither minimalism? Whither design?

LB — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:23:50 +0000

Whatever happened to planters like these two? They may still be in production, but wherever they are still available, and that’s nearly nowhere, they’re civic-sized, weigh 500-1000 pounds, and are out of scale for people’s home gardens.

Coast guard tower, Cuba

LB — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:30:40 +0000

Just off the Playa Ancon outside the town of Trinidad, Cuba.

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Empty bank building, Charleston SC

LB — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:33:02 +0000

For brutalist concrete, I find this little bank quite friendly. And not half bad for a drive-in. Unfortunately it seems to be abandoned. Photo above is by agilitynut, and and an alternate view is here.

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Parking garage, Mexico City

LB — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:47:33 +0000

Just a cement parking garage, but look how much care has been taken with the design of the concrete forms used for this building, and also with the lettering. Though clearly someone felt the subtle sign was a little too subtle for business.

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Kurimanzutto in Mexico City

LB — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:46:16 +0000

This is Kurimanzutto, the Mexico City art gallery of dealers Monica Manzutto and José Kuri. Originally an old lumber yard, the building was converted into a gallery by architect Alberto Kalach.

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Tatooine settlement on Vancouver Island

LB — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:34:40 +0000

Tatooine! I knew this Vancouver Island house reminded me of something.

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Patterned concrete screens

LB — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:15:39 +0000

I’m developing a taste for these. There are lots of dinky suburban tract versions of these perforated walls, but when the scale and placement are well thought out, they can be the building’s most arresting feature.

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Patterned concrete blocks, on Flickr

LB — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:58:07 +0000

Concrete block and perforated screen fetishists should visit this Flickr pool. The wall above and below is at the abandoned Besser Vibrapac office, a building that served as a display of the company’s own concrete blocks.

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