MADE x Barbican: celebrating a Brutalist icon with design
The MADE x Barbican homeware collection aims “to bring one of Britain’s most iconic estates into the heart of the contemporary home.”
Souvenir d’un Futur: Laurent Kronental Captures Paris’ Brutalist Melancholia
Brutalist melancholia and modernist utopias: Laurent Kronental’s ‘Souvenir d’un Futur’ photo essay delves into the concrete ocean of expansive real estate around Paris and portrays the ‘urban veterans’ residing within it.
Polish crafts and design shine at the ‘Romantic Brutalism’ exhibition in Milan
The ‘Romantic Brutalism’ exhibition in Milan brings together 24 Polish designers who present crafts and collectable designs that connect their country’s history to the present day.
Brutalist Italy: concrete architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea
In the ‘Brutalist Italy’ book and photo essay, Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego captured monumental concrete buildings to give voice to their country’s most overlooked and neglected architectural style.
Powerhouse Company adds a ‘friendly giant’ tower to an iconic Brutalist building
Rather than building around monuments, Powerhouse Company completed a ‘friendly giant’ skyscraper tuning with the Brutalist architecture of a 1970’s bunker building in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Marcus Byrne creates graffiti architectures with Artificial Intelligence
Marcus Byrne’s graffiti architectures capture the beauty in the decay with the art project When life imitates art. Through AI, the Australia-based Irish graphic designer, digital artist, and visual storyteller celebrates the spray can as a democratic tool for freedom of expression.
Architecture meets electronic music: architectural soundscapes for electronic volumes
Kraftwerk meet Frank Gehry, Daft Punk perform in space age interiors while Le Corbusier and Xenakis composed a pavilion inspired by the very first electronic music track. We selected 10 projects merging sound and space.
With the Divine Inspiration exhibition Lee Broom unveils lighting collections inspired by places of worship
Divine Inspiration is the first lighting release for Lee Broom in four years, showcasing a series of new ethereal lighting pieces in a range of materials, including a limited-edition collection in white plaster, which is hand crafted by the designer himself.
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha dies, aged 92
The late Pritzker Prize architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha mostly worked in São Paulo, but his austere raw concrete buildings influenced contemporary architecture in South America and beyond.
Nvard Yerkanian illustrates Armenian Soviet Brutalist architecture
Graphic designer Nvard Yerkanian portrays undervalued and endangered Armenian Soviet buildings to build up architectural awareness in the country. “There is a raising interest on Socialist and Brutalist architecture, and we have quite a few of them in Armenia.” Let’s not forget what what we’ve been through, says the architect and illustrator to Archipanic.
Brutalist-inspired furniture pushing lightweight beton brut to the extreme
A pointed rocking chair and a Chaise lounge composed of interlacing planes. Thomas Musca and Duyi Han joined forces to cast lightweight beton brut furniture combining brutalist aesthetics with computer programming.
VSHD Design blends optical illusions, brutalism and colour in the new Warehouse Gym in Dubai
A cosmic vibe with an underlying brutalist and underground fight-club aesthetic define the ultimate Dubai Warehouse Gym by VSHD Design.
SACRED SPACES: André Chiote translates contemporary religious architectures into graphic illustrations
With the ‘Sacred Space’ series of graphic posters the Portuguese architect and illustrator pays tribute to Oscar Niemeyer, Alvaro Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright’s holiest achievements.
Skyline Chess’ London Brutalist Edition turns architecture icons into kings, queens and knights
The new London Brutalist Edition by Skyline Chess transforms the Barbican Towers, the Alexandra Road Estate and One Kemble Street into architectural chess pieces.
Once upon a time in Leningrad… St Petersburg’s Soviet era through architecture [1917-1991]
Majestic underground stations, constructivist buildings and the austere House of Soviets, but also the former KGB palace and the creepy Memorial to the Victims of Political Repression. Explore the impressive and ominous architecture of Leningrad, St Petersburg’s Soviet name.
Valentin Jeck photographs the Brutalist architecture shaping the identity of former Yugoslavia
A MoMA’s specially commissioned photo essay by Valentin Jeck explores neglected buildings, monumental housing complexes and concrete skyscrapers built in the region of former Yugoslavia.
5 Brutalist buildings screaming for justice at Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
Venice Biennale 2018 – While the Robin Hood Gardens in London are being demolished, 4 other Brutalist buildings screaming for justice show that even concrete giants have ha chance to redeem.
V&A brings to Venice the vision and fate of London Robin Hood Gardens
The Victoria & Albert Museum saved a large part of the iconic Robin Hood Gardens from bulldozers and re-assembled it at Venice Biennale 2018 as part of a contested exhibition about the Brutalist building which many have have praised while others have described as “a failed social experiment of inhuman Modernism, not to be funded with public money”.
Tom Blachford captures Tokyo’s Blade Runner-style nightscapes
Australian photographer Tom Blachford explores Tokyo’s Blade Runner-style architecture portraying iconic buildings by Kenzo Tange, Kisho Kirosawa and more…
Archipanic sneaks a peek in the mother of all Tokyo capsule hotels: the iconic and neglected Nagakin Capsule Tower
From postwar never-realized urban visions to fancy sleeping pods. The history of Tokyo capsule hotels starts from the endangered Nakagin Capsule Tower photographed by Noritaka Minami.
Pyongyang architecture: Soviet imprint and North Korean regime influences
Raphael Olivier portrays Pyongyang austere towers and monuments which convey a brutalist sense of leadership weaved into the urban fabric of the North Korean capital.
The Architectural Imagination: architects go visionary to save and re-invent Detroit
Architects and locals team up to envision their dreams for Detroit future. The US Pavilion at Venice Biennale presents visionary proposals to fuel new energy in a city that craves for architectural imagination after a bankruptcy and decades of decline.
Casa Brutale by OPA merges into Greek cliffside
OPA studio designed Casa Brutale, a conceptual architecture completely immersed into the cliffside of the Aegean cost. Concrete, glass, wood and a pool-roof integrate with the natural landscape paying homage to pure brutalism as well.
Chemical Brothers Go Brutalist!
French filmaker Michel Gondry shoot Chemical Brothers’ new music video in Paris brutalist architecture, just a stone’s throw away from the Eiffel tower… and a Statue of Liberty.