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Boston Government Service Center, Boston (Paul Rudolph, 1962–71) [2]: 67 Braintree High School, Braintree (1972) Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (Le Corbusier, (1962) [2]: 61 Countway Library - Harvard University, Boston [15]
Pages in category "Brutalist architecture in Massachusetts" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Famous Examples of Brutalist Design ... Another famous example of Brutalist design is Boston City ... by Fritz G. Mayr was built in 1976 and is one of the most popular Brutalist buildings.
The dominant feature of Government Center is the enormous, imposing, and brutalist Boston City Hall, [4] designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood and built in the 1960s as part of Boston's first large urban renewal scheme. While considered by some to have architectural merit, the building is not universally admired, and is sharply unpopular among ...
The complex is made up of two connected Brutalist buildings: the Charles F. Hurley Building and the Erich Lindemann Building, as well as a courtyard; sometimes included is the newer, 1998-built, Edward W. Brooke Courthouse. The Hurley and Lindemann buildings are designated Category Two buildings in Boston, holding major significance for the city.
The college was previously known as the Boston Architectural Center. By 1965, the BAC had developed a continuing education program to serve the broader community. In the mid-1960s, it was forced out of its Somerset Street building and purchased a three-story brick building at 320 Newbury Street. The structure was a former stable and was solid ...
A notable pairing of brutalist campus buildings is found at Durham University, with Ove Arup's Grade I-listed Kingsgate Bridge (1963), one of only six post-1961 buildings to have been listed as Grade I by 2017, [74] [75] and the Grade II-listed Dunelm House (Richard Raines of the Architects' Co-Partnership; 1964–66), described in its listing ...
Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks. Perhaps the most iconic is the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, declared the ugliest building in the U.S. and the second ugliest in the world in a ...