The 1947 Berkeley Library at TCD, by Ahrends Burton and Koralek.
Frank McDonald tweets:
The Brutalist style takes many forms. Here’s my pic to prove it …
Everything. As It Happens.
The 1947 Berkeley Library at TCD, by Ahrends Burton and Koralek.
Frank McDonald tweets:
The Brutalist style takes many forms. Here’s my pic to prove it …
Built in 1967, not 1947. Love that building even more now that they’ve finally fixed the heating!
The addition to the Ulster Museum in the Botanic gardens in Belfast converted me from my traditional abhorrence of mass concrete
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/58c6787caae34265be2246da16cfa01d/ireland-north-belfast-botanic-gardens-ulster-museum-exterior-bpwpxx.jpg
Frank is becoming a right old whingebag.
How does pointing out that the Berkeley Library in TCD is also a Brutalist building make me a “right old whingebag”?
it’s possibly the best example of modern architecture in Ireland. McDonald might hang around with artichokes but he ain’t one.
I agree with you totally. Those curved glass windows were a masterstroke, and the shuttered concrete (which was done in Douglas Fir) is incomparable.
Serious question Frank. What makes this or that architectural feature ” great”? Technical complexity?Rarity? Materials? All three?