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1 week agoSupervisors OK Taking a Wrecking Ball to Vaillancourt Fountain, Rejecting Last-Chance Appeal
That brought out the cavalry of Vaillancourt Fountain fans to defend the long-not functioning public art piece, even bringing the original 95-year-old artist Armand Vaillancourt to SF to fight for it. But the fountain problems came to a head this past June when the SF Rec and Parks Department declared the fountain hazardous and fenced it off to the public. Rec and Parks then formally requested the fountain's removal in August.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month agoatrey and associates' brutalist home pairs climatic intelligence with material honesty
A Delhi residence uses passive climate strategies, curvilinear concrete form, terracotta jaali screens, and material contrasts to blend brutalist strength with sensory warmth.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months agoWhen a Photographer Builds a Fortress: John Dessarzin's Brutalist Jungle Sanctuary in Costa Rica - Yanko Design
When a National Geographic photographer designs his sanctuary, the lens doesn't disappear. John Dessarzin's Brutalist compound in Atenas, Costa Rica, frames the jungle like a permanent viewfinder: all concrete, steel, and calculated sightlines. Perched on a cliff bordering a protected bird sanctuary in the Central Valley, the 2017 residence rejects the neoclassical templates that dominate the region in favor of raw materiality and seismic resilience.
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fromArchDaily
5 months agoNorth Macedonia Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale Revisits the Brutalist Architecture of Skopje
Skopje's post-1963 identity is defined by Brutalist architecture, shaped by international influences like Kenzo Tange and exhibited through models recontextualized as a conceptual street.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
6 months agoarchitectural icons in music: from harry styles at barbican to bad bunny & breuer's brutalism
In Bad Bunny's NUEVAYoL music video, the Puerto Rican artist stages a quinceañera at Marcel Breuer's Meister Hall, an iconic Brutalist structure in New York City.
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
7 months agoBalfron Tower residents 'downright insulted' by 100 compensation offer after 'crippling' broken lifts ordeal
Residents of Balfron Tower are outraged by a £100 compensation offer after repeated lift failures, feeling it undervalues their living conditions.
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