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Dutch architect Jan Wils designed this 1931 Citroen showroom and headquarters in Amsterdam shortly after competing work on the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. It’s now a “business/sports/mobility powerhouse” according to Google translate, which may make more sense in Dutch, but it looks as though the exterior is largely unchanged. 

Church “Santa Maria Immacolata” (1966) in Bergamo, Italy, by Pino Pizzigoni #brutgroup photo via #isc20c https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzk9M37oX8s/?igshid=161we62pno5hy

Giuliano Pozzi and Gastone Rinaldo, 1970 https://www.instagram.com/p/ByC7bWgF9Fm/?igshid=zhymreo0yj9r

Project for a tourist resort on the Black Sea

G. Zoundblat

[Atelier Vesnin at Vhutein, Moscow, 1928-1929]

The Superficie pulsante by Gianni Colombo (1959) exhibited in 1961 at Miriorama 9, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, as published on the Japanese Magazine «Bijutsu Techo»  [Archivio Gianni Colombo, Milano; Re-programmed art] 

Isokon Building, Lawn Road, Hampstead (1934) by Wells Coates

This Tuesday July 9th 2019 sees the 85th anniversary of the official opening of the Isokon building on Lawn Road in Belsize Park. The stark modernist apartment block, also known as the Lawn Road Flats and designed by Wells Coates for Jack and Molly Pritchard, was declared open by Miss Thelma Cazalet (later Cazalet-Kier), an early British feminist and then Conservative MP for Islington East. Cazalet errounesley thanked “Russell Coates” for designing the building and broke a bottle of beer on the side of the Isokon to declare it open.

Read more on the building here

Panasonic Flat-Screen TV set, 1969

The Cultural Centre of Mattersburg was the first building of a series of cultural centers which were planned for the Burgenland in the 1960s and 1970s. It became a model for the following buildings which had the intention to support the region with educational and cultural offers. Through the undergoing demolition works, an exposed concrete building gets lost which stands for high architectural significance and a progress in cultural policy.

Herwig Udo Graf: Kulturzentrum Mattersburg, Mattersburg, Austria, 1972–1976

http://sosbrutalism.org/cms/16129925

Photos: ® Architekturzentrum Wien, Collection, Margherita Spiluttini

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Toronto, Canada. (1964)

João Batista Vilanova Artigas / Casa Domschke, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1974.

The House of Diego Rivera in Mexico City, 1933. Arch. Juan O’Gorman.

We fetched out one of our old favourites:

Nicola Nicolov: Restaurant Magura, Bar Orient, Hotel Kontinental, Slanchev Bryag Resort (near Nessebar), Bulgaria, 1965–1968

http://sosbrutalism.org/cms/18861674

Photos: Courtesy of Elke Beyer and Anke Hagemann, circa 1968

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Abandoned Cement Silo

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