20thCenturyBox

Planning and design professionals' own observations about 20th Century architecture and buildings. RT not always conveying agreement / endorsement.

[20thCenturyBox @20th_CenturyBox]

#Rotterdam not short on #concrete #timeless #C20 #modernist #urban #landscape @C20Society Great for #photography too

[MorganHyland/Stephen @smorganhyland]

In my latest Maddox Planning #blog I serve up the first of our '#Retailored' series Here #MaddoxPlanning is looking positively at opportunities for #regeneration & urban #reform presented by an increasing surplus of first generation #retail park floorspace https://t.co/CY4LWze7UR

[20thCenturyBox @20th_CenturyBox]

#Barbican #modernist #Brilliance #London There is nothing more beautiful than #imagination on a grand scale

[20thCenturyBox @20th_CenturyBox]

Looking resplendent in the sunshine & pretty fine for a +43yr old building #ChatsworthHouse (#notthatone) #Manchester of 1975 vintage #Architect #carlfisherandpartners #cfparchitects #architecture #C20 @C20Society #C20

[20thCenturyBox @20th_CenturyBox]

Looking resplendent in the sunshine & pretty fine for a +43yr old building #ChatsworthHouse (#notthatone) #Manchester of 1975 vintage #Architect #carlfisherandpartners #cfparchitects #architecture #C20 @C20Society #C20

[20thCenturyBox @20th_CenturyBox]

#Rotterdam not short on #concrete #timeless #C20 #modernist #urban #landscape @C20Society Great for #photography too

[KAMPUS @KampusMCR]

We're bringing it back to the beginning! This is the Kampus tower being built way back in 1960, and a shot of the towers as it is now 🏗️

[Matthew Steele @matthewgsteele]

Manchester Arndale Centre via @VisResCentreMMU

[Gary Painter @Withnail74]

@MrTimDunn Glasgow Airport’s original 1966 Basil Spence terminal (complete with pond out front!) was a nice thing, and is still there, subsumed by subsequent extensions...

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

The new - Glasgow Airport - terminal’s architect was Sir Basil Spence. It was opened in 1966 but consumed by an extension in 1989. But look! Spence’s concrete façade still exists, now indoors, above the checkin desks

[MorganHyland/Stephen @smorganhyland]

February in the #brutalist #architecture calendar that occupies my @BeehiveLofts windowsill is the convention & gravity defying 1961 @BCCcuny #BegrischHall #Bronx #NewYork by #MarcelBreuer (21/5/02-1/7/81) Such progressive #design #development thinking deserves every applause

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Architecture in Yugoslavia tended towards the Brutalist...

[CNN @CNN]

Brutalist architecture elevates function over form, rigor over litheness, utilitarianism over ornamentation. But these Soviet-era postcards make it look beautiful (via @CNNstyle) https://t.co/HbK1F9eDfT

[Boston Magazine @BostonMagazine]

Ugly? Hardly. Why the Brutalist concrete buildings every Bostonian loves to hate are back in a big, big way https://t.co/GO1nqKAz7N

[🏘️ 🏗️ 🇫🇷 Mémoire2Ville 🌆 🚧Sagacité 🏗️ 🏘️ @Memoire2cite]

Aéroport d'Orly

[🏘️ 🏗️ 🇫🇷 Mémoire2Ville 🌆 🚧Sagacité 🏗️ 🏘️ @Memoire2cite]

Marle (02) la piscine

[Birmingham 81 @Birmingham_81]

Brutalist brickwork - former Chichester Theological College housing designed by Ahrends, Burton & Koralek in the mid-60s

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

The Holloway Road in 1960 was a sea of red! I count 8 red vehicles in this shot, but they are all beauties 😍

[createstreets @createstreets]

“A moment in time capturing the gulf between architects' dreams and residents' realities” https://t.co/KOXCrLuN4m

[Dezeen @dezeen]

Valdemar Coutinho Arquitectos completes Brutalist concrete sports centre in Portugal: https://t.co/f1ZkJl0tEF

[Dezeen @dezeen]

Inuce completes pink pebbledash church hall in Fuzhou https://t.co/tEObOrACLB