One of the most impressive feats of concrete engineering, and a masterpiece in housing design, is the Seventies Alexandra Road Estate in Swiss Cottage, designed by Neave Brown for the Borough of ...
People living on an iconic brutalist estate fear they will be pushed into “further financial hardship” by a decision to install a new heating system for their Grade II* listed homes.
The raw, polarising world of brutalist architecture has a cult following, and it’s in the spotlight with Brady Corbet’s epic film The Brutalist — starring Adrien Brody as Bauhaus-trained ...
The Smithsons are best known for their late-Sixties Robin Hood Gardens social housing project in Poplar. Demolition of the estate began in 2017, despite the megastructure being lauded by critics and ...
British architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term “New Brutalism” (originating from the French béton brut, meaning “raw concrete”) to describe not just an aesthetic style, but a philosophy ...
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