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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2018, 05:37:47 PM »
Popular style used in government buildings and welfare housing projects.

Never became very popular in the market comprised of living human beings who appreciate beauty.

Pure soul and spirit crushing utility with no aesthetics or touch of the human “spirit”. That’s why bureaucrats were drawn to the style.

The office building directly behind the Illinois State Capitol, where a lot of the legistlators have offices, is hideous.  Back when I was going to the IGOLD rally, that was where I would enter the complex.  A triumph of Soviet architecture.  If I can remember the name I'll post a pic.

The Stratton Building.  They seem proud of it.

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2018, 05:47:05 PM »
Stratton Office Building.

Looks like a hospital near where I grew up. Not a good looking building. Probably looked worn out as soon as it was finished.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2018, 07:07:50 PM »
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2018, 07:10:25 PM »
The office building directly behind the Illinois State Capitol, where a lot of the legistlators have offices, is hideous.  Back when I was going to the IGOLD rally, that was where I would enter the complex.  A triumph of Soviet architecture.  If I can remember the name I'll post a pic.

The Stratton Building.  They seem proud of it.



Ugly as sin but, IMHO, far too much glass to be Brutalism. I will hazard a guess that the concrete spandrels (the horizontal bands separating the bands of windows) aren't structural, they're most likely precast panels bolted to a steel structure. That alone disqualifies it from being Brutalist. In Brutalist architecture, the structure is all concrete and it's exposed, even emphasized.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #29 on: November 07, 2018, 07:30:03 PM »
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #30 on: November 07, 2018, 08:37:02 PM »
Did someone mention "soul crushing architecture"?
This is Downtown Tulsa.
The ugly, two-tone dogshit brown buildingjust to the right of center is where I spend 8+ hours every day. The interior is as inviting as the exterior.

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #31 on: November 07, 2018, 09:25:13 PM »
^^^All of those phone switching/internet server farm buildings look similar. Almost like a blockhouse: big concrete cubes with few windows. I wonder why that is.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #32 on: November 07, 2018, 09:30:43 PM »
^^^All of those phone switching/internet server farm buildings look similar. Almost like a blockhouse: big concrete cubes with few windows. I wonder why that is.

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #33 on: November 07, 2018, 10:44:01 PM »
^^^All of those phone switching/internet server farm buildings look similar. Almost like a blockhouse: big concrete cubes with few windows. I wonder why that is.

Because they are mostly occupied by electronic equipment, not people. There's no need for windows that people can look out of, and less glass makes it easier and more economical to regulate the interior climate.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #34 on: November 07, 2018, 10:52:13 PM »
Most of the equipment spaces are on the "right hand" (east) side of the building, the side with the most windows.
It's a 12 story building, more or less, we have equipment on 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9 and 10. The back-up generators are on  "13". The rest of the building is office space and call centers.  It's only about 30% occupied these days.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #35 on: November 07, 2018, 10:57:37 PM »
http://mynorthwest.com/1029602/seattle-nsa-spy-hub/?

There is an AT&T building in downtown Seattle that is supposed to be some sort of major switch point for the Internet and telecommunications. The NSA is supposed to have an operation there.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #36 on: November 07, 2018, 11:30:38 PM »
My local horror show is the Gruening Building on campus.



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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #37 on: November 07, 2018, 11:46:49 PM »
Brutalism:



The Yale School of Architecture building. Everything is concrete -- the exterior, the interior, the walls, the floors, and many of the ceilings. In this photo, the tower just right of center and everything to the left is the building. Whatever building that is to the right, with the glass and metal, isn't part of the original Paul Rudolph School of Architecture building. (I think it may be a later addition.)





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Hall
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #38 on: November 08, 2018, 12:28:35 AM »
Brutalism:



The Yale School of Architecture building. Everything is concrete -- the exterior, the interior, the walls, the floors, and many of the ceilings. In this photo, the tower just right of center and everything to the left is the building. Whatever building that is to the right, with the glass and metal, isn't part of the original Paul Rudolph School of Architecture building. (I think it may be a later addition.)





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Hall

That one's kind of nice. Sort of future dystopian looking or something.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #39 on: November 08, 2018, 12:45:24 AM »
That one's kind of nice. Sort of future dystopian looking or something.

That sums up what Brutalism is fairly well. "Dystopian."
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #40 on: November 08, 2018, 01:46:35 AM »
There's the old Chicago Post Office.  (The Eisenhower Expressway, I-290, runs through it, or underneath it, whatever).

 

Then that triumph of state planning and architecture:  Cabrini Green of the Chicago Housing Authority (based on the Soviet "Stack-a-Prole" model of housing poor people.)

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #41 on: November 08, 2018, 12:34:52 PM »
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Then that triumph of state planning and architecture:  Cabrini Green of the Chicago Housing Authority (based on the Soviet the "Stack-a-Prole" model of housing poor people.)

I remember doing a little suburbanite tourism in Chicago with some Chicago friends while in college. Cabrini Green was still standing, and I remember what looked like every 10th or so window in any building in the area had obvious fire damage around it.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #42 on: November 08, 2018, 01:37:17 PM »
There's the old Chicago Post Office.  (The Eisenhower Expressway, I-290, runs through it, or underneath it, whatever).

 



I've walked by the north side of that building many, many times and never realized that the expressway went through it.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #43 on: November 08, 2018, 03:48:48 PM »
Brutalism is absolutely ghastly.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #44 on: November 08, 2018, 04:59:15 PM »
Still has an appeal to me, though.

There's just something about it. Maybe it's fortress-like qualities make it attractive to me. I do love castles, too. And bunker systems and the Maginot Wall.

 
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #45 on: November 09, 2018, 03:42:51 PM »
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #46 on: November 09, 2018, 04:18:02 PM »
Crosley Tower on the University of Cincinnati main campus.

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #47 on: November 09, 2018, 09:37:21 PM »
Crosley Tower on the University of Cincinnati main campus.



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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #48 on: November 09, 2018, 11:27:59 PM »
Some of the dorms where I went to school.




What school is that ??
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« Reply #49 on: November 09, 2018, 11:33:59 PM »
What school is that ??
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