The architect Marcel Breuer developed the Alpine Ski Station of Flaine (France) from 1960 to 1976, contributing to some of the iconic designs of the region, such as the LE Flaine hotel, the Bételgeuse building and the ecumenical chapel. The poetics Capilla, inaugurated in 1973, was built in wood with an inclined slate roof and is the only flaine building that is not concrete. A bell tower rises from the center of the structure, and the interior is furnished in a simple way with an altar, banks, luminaires and bronze candlesticks designed by Breuer.
23. Durham, England
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Some cities are organized around a square, but the architect and artist Victor Pasmore organized the people of Peterlee, in Durham County, around an abstract brutalist structure. After 1969, the Apollo Pavilion, named for the Apollo Space Program, was designed to be at the same time a work of art and architecture. The pavilion was built with reinforced concrete, which was molded In situ on a lake of the Sunny Blunts urbanization. Over the years, the Pasmore pavilion deteriorated, but was restored in 2009 and declared grade II in 2011.
24. London, England
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The Chamberlin architecture study, Powell and Bon, created a city within another city in its design of the famous London Barbican. Built in an area destroyed during World War II, the barbican was designed thinking about a utopia: more than 2,000 floors, duplex and townhouses, stores, restaurants, schools, a church and an artistic center. This brutalist grade II complex was built in the 60s and 70s and was officially inaugurated in 1982.
Article originally published in AD Us.