The tricorn centre was in a a...
The tricorn centre was in a a doco I saw here, along with a school in Huddersfield and the Barbican, which I really like. I'd be proud to have anything like the tricorn centre in my town, I bet it was used in a lot of advertising.
I usd to live near these 2 buildings, had no real knowledge of buildings then but liked them at the time and turns out they are well recognised. The Ham common flats in Surrey (where you'd expect to see a triffid ambling past) and the Leicester University Engineering building, which looks like its been cleaned up recently.
Bank of London and South America by Clorindo Testa
Provably the Masterpiece of Clorindo Testa perhaps the most important argentine architect.
One of the more emblematic building of one of the most important argentine architects
Exterior is good, but interiors is awesome, although no photos, as is a bank, is no allowed to take pics.
Levels are "floating", upper levels are indeed suspended from the ceiling and there are no divisions between offices.
Those spaces you enjoy it, and need to stay more than usual to "get" it.
Trying to find some text in english to help me, I find an interview with Peter Cook, and what he said when was asked about a wonder:
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Wonder: The Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires
The Bank of London and South America (now the Hipotecario Nacional Bank) was built in the 1960s and has haunted me for years. It is in the financial area in Buenos Aires, and was designed by Clorindo Testa, an Argentinian-based architect born in Naples. The building is stunning: not only does it have an extremely original street facade, it makes the exterior part of the extraordinary interior. Giant trellises run into the building from the street: there is a huge concrete trellis, then a network of windows, creating an incredible feeling of captured space. Inside it is beautifully crafted, with the banking areas suspended in the vast space. The building is on a corner, and a giant eyelid hangs over it, playing tricks with the light. It's the sort of thing baroque architects would have done.
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http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/blsa/
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There is an interesting dialogue with the neighbour buildings.
This one although clearly brutalist and has it's own strong personality, also have an interesting relationship with others.
This is by the way one of the characteristics of Buenos Aires, this mixture of styles, some times chaotic for some people. Here I find it really great.
Heath, I was very surprised...
Heath, I was very surprised to see an image of the James Stirling flats on Ham common, I very nearly bought one of those last year. As it turns out I now live on the other side of the common in another well known modernist estate.
Anyway my contribution if I can manage to download an image, is of an office block a few miles down the road designed by Richard Siefert, the architect responsible for Centre point.
I`ve had my eye on this beauty for a long time and this thread spured me into finaly taking some images.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33820677@N08/
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There is a little bit on the flats in Kenneth Framptons, 'Modern architecture a critical history'. I'm suprised they were ever given planning approval, lived near some similar ones too just out of Guildford but google maps won't give me any images.
Do you have any interior or exterior pictures of where you ended up buying?
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funny how council flats always get such a bad rap, like its the buildings fault. Some of them weren't great but very similar buildings are used to house wealthier people all over the world...and the quality of those buildings often isn't the best either but no piss in the lifts there.
Brutal chunks of concrete isn't the problem its usually just unemployment, so much easier to just blow a building up instead of finding a decent life for people.
Heath, we ended up moving to...
Heath, we ended up moving to the Span estate designed by Eric Lyons. Built between 1953-56 it was one of the first Span developments.
I`m glad to say that English Heritage has finaly started to recognize good quality modernism as a style that should be preserved and the Estate now has grade 2 listing status as do the Stirling flats on the other side of Ham common.
There are some interior and exterior shots somewhere on my Flickr pages.
Any more information on those flats near Guildford? I would like to check them out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33820677@N08/3711890873/
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I wish I could remember my st...
I wish I could remember my street, but it was years ago, Do you know the big Sainsburys just out of Guildford on the London road? They are about halfway between there and the town centre, past the entrance to all those Abbotsford (?) mock tudor things amoungst all the cul-de-sacs...Green Lane rings a bell but can't be sure. Google maps will not give a street view, perhaps it is the Eatons Court flats?
Judging by all flat roofs from the satellite image there seems to be a few modernist blocks in the area.
Could only find one image of your flats on the flickr link, I like this pool though, especially the contributor who calls himself 'flock me' hahahhaha!
Found some info on the Lafayette Park development. It was very very good to read that the neighbourhood is thriving, the buildings look in good condition and its been a sucess, more than the IIT campus by the looks of things, isn't it lovely? Though I can't helping thinking a travertine or granite skirt around the edge of the terrace block would be an improvement.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/60s_and_70s_buildings/pool/
Berlin - Wohnstadt Carl Legien
I'm starting of with something some of you might find a little bit too old - however, it's one of the most examples for progressive housebuiling and city planning of 20th century. It was planned by Bruno Taut and built between 1928 and 1930.
http://blog.jochen-overbeck.de/
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Thanks, I like Sven Markelius (?) work too.
I'd really love to see pictures of peoples local neighbourhoods, the odd little sheds and adaptions I think are really fascinating, keep forgetting to take my camera when I leave the house but will post some vernacular Queensland buildings soon.
Actionandaction: I like it,...
Actionandaction: I like it, and no old at old, provably I look older that the building.... ANd I love Berlin!
I'd love to see a little more at least!
Heath: Is it posible to edit a little bit the title of the thread?
It's seems there are people interested now, but I don't understand very well in what... 🙂
Is it about brutalism and/or architecture is relevant to you?
I'm also interested but I don't know in what.... =)
Gustavo...
The Clorindo Testa building amazes me. It has by far the most complex vocabulary of brutalism I have ever seen. I ma not even sure it is brutalism, but I don't know what else to call it. What year was it done. It frankly has the complexity and contradiction of, dare I say it? Postmodernism done brutally, yet it is without irony. Let us hope Robert A. M. Stern never gets an itch to take postmodern into the brutal, but were he to, he would have to make allusions to this masterpiece of Testa's. It almost makes brutalism worth doing. Almost. 🙂
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