jose miguel

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[ParametricArchitecture @parametricarch]

🏛️ Basilica di Siponto by Edoardo Tresoldi reconstructs the lost volumes of an Early Christian basilica through a monumental transparent wire-mesh structure.

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

More brick shading…

Chandigarh Secondary School, India, 1965.

Architect: Jeet Lal Malhotra. Photo by Chris Norton Riley

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

A Gothic hearse discovered in Germany dating back to the late 19th century.

[illustrarch • Architecture & Design @illustrarch]

The Trillium Awakening by NOD Studio

#illustrarch #nodstudio #architecturaldesign

[Fľøkï @Dee_Floki]

The Avala Tower in Belgrade, Serbia, a famous example of socialist brutalist architecture.

[archistar @archistar1]

Ex Sottostazione Elettrica
Umspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, 1926-1928
Berlino-Mitte 🇩🇪 Germania
#architects Hans Heinrich Müller + Felix Thümen
#architecture

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Colombia doesn’t just build with brick. It builds monuments with it.

The University Hospital of the Santa Fe de Bogotá Medical Foundation is an entire tower wrapped in patterned brick, a perforated skin punched with a giant circular motif and long horizontal window slots, all sitting on a base of angular concrete columns that fold like origami. This isn’t a budget material hiding behind plaster. It’s the whole facade, load-bearing and decorative at once, holding up a hospital most cities would have wrapped in glass and called modern.

Meanwhile in Africa, we sit on laterite soil rich enough to fire brick by the ton, coal reserves to burn it with, and centuries of masons who already know how to lay it. And we still build our schools and hospitals out of poured concrete and sandcrete block, importing the very material philosophy Colombia is turning into architecture people fly in to photograph.

Brick was never primitive. We just stopped believing it could be beautiful.

University Hospital of the Santa Fe de Bogotá Medical Foundation | El Equipo Mazzanti
Bogotá, Colombia | Photography: Andres Valbuena, Alejandro Arango, Fredy Fortich

[Fľøkï @Dee_Floki]

Brick Brutalism

Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall, located in London, England.

[BOT KENCHIKU🔴 @BotKenchiku]

「21_21 DESIGN SIGHT」／安藤忠雄建築研究所

[Dòkun📍 @Arch_Dokun77]

What do you see as the concept behind this building?🍤✴

Haus der Kulturen der Welt.🔺️🏗
Berlin, Germany.📍

[ParametricArchitecture @parametricarch]

The United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado Springs is a monumental religious building designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and completed in 1962.

[BOT KENCHIKU🔴 @BotKenchiku]

「BEIRUT TERRACES」／ヘルツォーク＆ドムーロン

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Dezful, Iran has been building with brick for so long the techniques got names. Not styles, names. Sabat. Chapireh. Lattice brick roofs meant to pull river breeze in while keeping the family sleeping upstairs shielded from view.

Bio-Design Architects didn’t invent anything new for this residential complex. They studied Dezful’s old city, its brick alleys, its corner-construction method called chapireh, and rebuilt it in a modern form. The lattice brickwork that used to cool rooftop sleeping areas now wraps the terraces. The cornering technique that shaped centuries-old alleyways now shapes an entire consoled facade, brick laid in a belt so precise it reads almost like a woven pattern from the street.

Whatever the world calls “primitive” in Iranian brickwork was never crude. It was tested by generations, refined until it earned a name, and handed down instead of thrown away.

Chapireh Residential Complex | Bio-Design Architects (Hossein Hallaj)
Dezful, Iran | 2020 | Photography: Mohammad Hassan

[Dòkun📍 @Arch_Dokun77]

Imagine this level of human creativity🫡

Brick🧱🧱

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Beautiful brick apartment building in Ahvaz, Iran

The architect is Mehrdad Esmaeilian

[Adam Nathaniel Furman @adamnfurman]

Design for an island chapel

[ParametricArchitecture @parametricarch]

✨99 geometric coffers transform daylight into architecture.

Punchbowl Mosque by Angelo Candalepas reimagines Islamic architecture through a contemporary architectural language rooted in structure, proportion, and atmosphere.

[Fľøkï @Dee_Floki]

The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan a soviet modernist architecture with strong brutalist characteristics

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

National Library of Kosovo

[Fľøkï @Dee_Floki]

Capela dos Beatos Mártires, Brazil.