Tag: brutalist
59. Thamesmead
The intention was for Thamesmead to be urban from the start, city-like and a new town on the marshes of the existing Woolwich Arsenal. The masterplan was a reaction against ‘Garden Cities’ the half rural pretty towns, and was envisioned to be an urban city within a garden.
35. Brutalist Bloomsbury
On this walking tour we discovered a much lambasted building by the prolific but under-rated Richard Seifert, a pair of late and controversial works by Sir Denys Lasdun, Patrick Hodgkinson's acclaimed mega-structure the Brunswick Centre, and host of lesser known gems including an elegant 1960s theatre, a dynamic and remarkably preserved hotel in the international style and an uncompromising concrete chemistry laboratory.
19. The National Theatre
This visit started with a talk by Barnabas Calder on architect Sir Denys Lasdun and the design of the National Theatre. Lasdun was appointed to design the building in 1963 with no previous experience in theatre design.
5. The Barbican
Construction started in the 1970s and the buildings in British Brutalist style were designed by Architects Chamberlain, Powell and Bon.