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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Bobigny’s brutalist Mairie by architects Marius Depont and Michel Holley. The Town Hall of Bobigny is a powerful example of French brutalist architecture, a bold statement in béton brut. Photo, thanks to @modarchitecture. More about Bobigny, www.greyscape.com/brutalist-bo... #betonbrut #brutalism

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The bush hammered concrete of the Barbican responds to the sun #Barbican #modernism

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Rear window meets Giacometti sculptures in the Barbican. A glimpse through the Barbican of the great Swiss sculptor’s works. With thanks to @barbican_city_of _London on Insta #Barbican #sculpture #Giacometti

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The Nubuke Foundation is an important art and culture centre in Accra, Ghana. Its brutalist gallery, by Bärbel Müller and Jürgen Strohmayer is to champion Ghanaian arts, heritage and culture. Photo with thanks to @african_brutalism @images_darchitectures @nubuke_foundation

This is the main gallery raised up creating a large space beneath allowing fresh air to flow through the space naturally to help counter Accra’s hot, tropical climate. Jürgen frequently works between Vienna and Accra, together with Bärbel, they deliver projects with a strong connection to the community and its surroundings.

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Palace of Culture and Science, from our hotel window, described when it was completed in 1955 as a ‘gift’ from the Soviet Union to the Polish people, however the locals described their gift somewhat differently, with the nickname ‘Stalin’s syringe’

Tower in Warsaw, redolent of Moscow’s Seven Sisters, steel framed and Stalinesque

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Slovak Radio Buikding, #Bratislava, two inverted pyramids by Štefan Svetkom Štefan Durkovič and Barnabáš Kissling. Image Oliver Skukalek @_oli001 Read more on Greyscape.com

Two inverted steel pyramids comprise the building, their angular walls flaring from the apparent apex, which is seemingly embedded in the concrete plinth

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Hydrometeorological Service of the Republic of Macedonia, 1972–1975, architect Krsto Todorovski. Photo with thanks to @_karl_moab_ #brutalism #modernism #brutalisme #brutalismus #brutalismo #brutopolis #brutalista #brutalist #brutal_architecture #brutalarchitecture #brutal_architecture

A concrete column with cantilevered storey

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Honour Eileen Gray, who wasn’t able to be an architect because she was a woman, she could design textiles instead. But she was a fabulous architect and Le Corbusier was deadly jealous see www.greyscape.com/cap-moderne-2/ #internationalwomensday #IWD #modernism

Aileen Gray’s sun-drenched villa E1027 in Riquebrune

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Somehow the Times forgot to mention that a great brutalist architect, Ernö agoldfinger designed for early years see www.greyscape.com/erno-goldfin... Photo Toy shop for Paul and Marjorie Abbatt Limited, 94 Wimpole Street, London. Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Corbusier’s 1954 Mill Owners Association Building, Ahmedabad. Its beauty lies in its sense of volume, light and raw concrete surfaces. Corbusier’s five points are noted, it a seems to float, pilotis make an open ground floor. Corbusier used a favourite, ramps to connect floors image John Gollings ©

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Bookcase by Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), French architect and designer who aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society #WomensArt

Photo of a wooden bookcase with five shelves and with sections of blocks of colour, red, black, brown, white and yellow, the book case stands on two legs on a white surface against a white background

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We have the original architect’s model of the De La Warr Pavilion, on display in our Sargent Gallery. Sadly a number of the proposed features didn’t make it into the final build for reasons of cost. #Bexhill #Architecture

The model is a large and substantial one in full colour. At the front is the sea with the beach behind it and then the Pavilion. There was to have been a circular swimming pool at the front as well as a huge statue of Persephone and a pergola. In addition a double height pier out over the sea with diving boards was included.

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The fantastic and vibrant Center of Creative Arts, St Louis formerly the B’nai Amoona synagogue designed by Erich Mendlesohn whose De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, you know we love. #modernism

Designed as a synagogue the COCA is now a wonderful centre for visual and performing arts serving all of St Louis.

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Would Corbusier have been wriggling in his cinema seat at the sight of ‘Villa Arpel’ in Jacques Tati’s 1958 film Mon Oncle? Created on a set with production designer Eugène Roman, Tati lampooned a particular class of post war aspiring fellow Frenchmen. Photo with thanks to @gilbertkann

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Baba estate, Prague, like Wiesenhoff, experimental, aspirational, now loved What makes us modernists? Rejection of tradition? Belief in progress and Utopianism? Embrace of technology? Minimalism, simplicity? Do we need modernists now? #modernism #modernist #midmod #modernizm #nachkriegsmoderne

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Deutscher Werkbund’s Wiesenhof Estate, Stuttgart, 1927, a magnificent experiment to create affordable, decent housing for ordinary people. But instead of cheap prefabricated buildings they were costly. The Nazis loathed the modernism and said it looked like an Arab village - racists #modernism

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The gifted and, sadly, late Zaha Hadid’s Port House, Antwerp. While preserving, respectfully, the original fires station Hadid added a bold addition that provides beautiful views of and from, every direction. #urban #urbanview #urbandesign #masterarchitect

Like a great multi-faceted jewel lifted on elegant columns of concrete and steel, the sparkling addition to the venerable Port House building speaks of Antwerp’s ambition, confidence, history and prosperity

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Barbican attracts many visitors, this one an elegant cormorant, here drying its wings against the angular backdrop of the waterfall #bushhammered #barbican #barbicanandbeyond #barbicanestate #barbicancentre #brutalism #brutalisme #brutalismus #brutalist #brutal_architecture #betonbrut

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

For a 35 acre blitzed site in the heart of City, the Corporation of London had the vision and imagination to trust three young architects #barbican #barbicanestate #brutalism #brutalist #brutal_architecture #betonbrut #beton #brutbeton #brutalarchitecture #betonliebe#brutal_architecture #Brutgroup

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

You know its name and where it is (a long drive from Pittsburgh). “I want you to live with the waterfall, not just look at it…” www.greyscape.com/campaigns/fa... #franklloydwright #prairiestyle #modernism

Falling Watwr glimpsed through the woods around it showing the waterfall

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Wishing you a new year filled with inspiration and brilliant designs, peace and good health. #newyear #2025#modernism#buildings#concretedesign

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Pegli 3, Genoa’s social housing project with thanks to, on Insta, @joannlosito. Loved by photographers, pretty much everyone who doesn’t have to live there due to parsimony over maintenance - the old story. #balconies #buildings #brutalism #brutalismo #brutalista #brutalist #brutal_architecture

The huge number of individual modernists concrete dwellings

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Our modern past recreated with die-cut pre-folded models to build. ‘…from iconic slabs of Sheffield’s Park Hill and London’s Trellick Tower, to the demolished Birmingham Central Library.’ £19.95 shop.greyscape.com/product/brut... #buildings #brutalism #brutopolis #brutalist #brutal_architecture

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Kino International, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, architects Josef Kaiser and Heinz Aust. 1963. Photographed during a terrific walkabout with @louis.volkmann #architecturephotography#igersberlin #berlinarchitecture #berlin #berlinphotography #berlinstyle #visitberlin #berlinarchitektur #berlinlife

1963 rectangular block cinema sitting on recessed ground floor with entrances doors. Fronted by panoramic bar and dining room.

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Wall mounted cast model of the Golden Lane Estate designed by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon who went on to design the Barbican. The former was innovative social housing the latter for the ambitious middle class #bеtonbrut #barbican #barbicanestate #BrutalistLondon #brutalist#brutalarchitecture #Brutgroup

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Berlin’s extraordinary Mäusbunker, aka “Star Destroyer”,original designers Gerd and Magdalena Hänska and saved by a public campaign from demolition. #berlincity #distressedbuildings #abandoned #berlinstagram #berlinlife #berlinpage #berlin #diestadtberlin #buildingstylegf

Concrete rectangular with a flat room and inclined sides a striking feature of the Mäusbunker are the blue projecting pipes, like can I barrels, ranged along its long sides in three tiers. They’re for air circulation

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The exterior of the De La Warr Pavilion. The light is in the rotunda to the right. Do visit, it’s a wonderful arts centre #delawarr

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A trademark spiral staircase and light in the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. Named for the communist Earl De La Warr and designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist #modernistarchitecture #midcenturystyle #modernarchitecture #midcenturyarchitecture

In the centre of a spiral staircase a slender silvered light descends several storeys with a white ball at its end containing the bulbs and above a series of silver saucer shaped disks rising up its length

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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Ceramic mug with Barbican Estate design and red handle and interior £12.50

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Haus Schminke, designed by Hans Scharoun akaThe Noodle Steamer because of its resemblance to an ocean liner and Schminke made a fortune supplying the Wehrmacht with dried pasta. Post-war Schminke was imprisoned. #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist

In Lobau in Germany’s East is this modernist house resembling a great ocean liner. It has two decks, a winter garden and stands out as one of the great modernist houses

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Villa E1027, brilliant, whimsical love nest by Eileen Grey. She couldn’t be an architect because she was a woman - but she was. She walked because a jealous (and naked) uninvited #Corbusier painted murals on the walls. His Cabanon are just behind the villa and he drowned in the bay below #modernism

Bright white in the intense sun of the Côte d’Azur, Eileen Grey’s villa E1027 is a modernist masterpiece and her genius made Le Corbusier green with envy

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And back to Tecton, a kiosk at Dudley Zoo. Following Lubetkin’s success at Regent’s Park Zoo, Tecton designed a suite of buildings for Dudley. What was it about modernist design that so attracted zoos in Europe? #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist #midmod #modernistarchitecture #midcenturystyle

Lozenge shaped “kiosk” at Dudley zoo, about 4 metres long, windowed enclosure and larger lozenge roof supported on pillars

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Gerard Grandval’s Les Choux de Créteil, organic, humorous, human and humane. The vision of the balconies being festooned with growing vines, wasn’t realised but this is a masterpiece #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist #postwar #20thcenturymodern

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Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

People would pity us for living in the Barbican, such is the prejudice against modernist, concrete estates.

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