Great shots, particularly like the one with a single window and the one looking up the stairwell. Thanks for sharing.
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You’re thinking of the Boros Bunker, once a flack bunker, then a nightclub (regular and kinky parties), a storage warehouse for bananas… then acquired by mr boros, and converted into a private gallery with a residence on top by Casper & Müller (Jens casper was my master thesis professor, did a few visits there)
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Massachusetts is correct. Notifications are on but haven’t received any. Probably as good a place as any to say just uploaded model of Lincoln House, Mass. to 3DWH a couple days ago. Scenes will take thru a different tour than those listed here more in keeping with original plan concept but a look on own may find added exterior entrance to basement NE corner.
Hmmm, I guess I should post this Soviet influenced local building here in Danang Vietnam I snapped a few weeks ago … not sure how much longer they will last with the dramatic development of the city…
Anyone interested might like to visit this FB group for similar era buildings in Vietnam
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it’s crazy how brutalist architecture surrounded by nature and vegetation looks good. That’s a sexy contrast, a green chest for a raw stone
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To me that looks more like inspired by Corbusier. Roof “gardens” and all. Wasn’t Da Nang by the time south of the division line?
Taken over by the North in 1975… well I’m not an expert of styles… maybe its Jaque Tati French modernist… lots of all all over VN! I’d tend to associate it with the many eastern block trained architects… The FB group would be more enlightening than me 
I just think its impressive brutalist concrete work that deserves recognition. Back to my Sau 40!
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hahaha it kinda is. it’s not standard housing, but then again, it might not be housing. and the standard housing system was mostly seen within the URSS, not really within the allied countries. and France. Because it was first designed by french architects as a way to quickly house the refugees and migrant from our collapsing colonial empire - then sold to the soviets who “perfected” the system, and built the Hrushchovkas (the standard soviet housing units). So you can find standard housing in former french colonies built during or after occupation without having links to the soviet.
Chances are, the architects behind this building were either french (pre independence of Indochina) or more likely trained by the french. So yeah, even if it’s from the post colony era, no wonder it feels very… Corbusier meets Tati in his Da Nang house for tea.
Funny thing though, the smaller building right behind (the red wall on the right) is the Russian consulate. was it here during soviet times ? if so, is the brutalist building part of it, or is the consulate just next door ?
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I’d have to go down and take a look again… not sure I want to take photo’s down there at this point in history
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hahaha, true.
here in france many buildings by architects carry a plaque or something with the date and name of the studio. some older ones get lost over the time, maybe this building has one !
welp
their bespoke buildings looked way better than the standard ones
still always beautiful with time indeed
I can only put one “like” to a post. Mon Oncle and Playtime are perhaps the two films I love most.
So it was a Soviet Embassy! Has it been recently rebuilt? It looks like it is in amazing condition. Most of the Western and Eastern buildings like this look like they are about to collapse by now.
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…or Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. We have to watch that every August.
I missed SU Live on Friday because I was on a tour of Paul Rudolph’s A&A building at Yale. Still working on the pictures…
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I’m totally exhausted, and I nearly lost my voice last night from talking to people for 3 days, but DOCOMOMO 2023 was great. Here are two pix from the basement lecture hall in Rudolph Hall at Yale for one of the best sessions. As much as the building has been criticized as an example of everything bad about brutalist buildings, it’s still an inspired building none the less. Full of people and after they all left:
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I shuddered involuntarily when I opened the image - been almost 40 years since I was a student in that building and attending lectures by the likes of James Stirling, Tadao Ando, Cesar Pelli, and Stanley Tigerman!
It’s nice to see the building treated with some love - the pictures can’t incorporate the smell of stale cigarettes and old coffee or the haze of all-nighters! 
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it has unusual proportions and seating arrangements for a lecture theatre… and the wide angle camera seems to give a misleading appreciation of the space… Is there a Sketchup model of the interior?
More like this?
School is out, but a few students were still here. if you want to see more, I’ll just make my SmugMug photo gallery public instead of flooding this thread with images:
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Yup! Ohmygod - I thought I had gotten over my PTSD!!! 
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When we were there, the visiting critics apartment was a student lounge with coffee, sandwiches, juice, sodas, etc., run by the dining halls. Fun.
The orange benches and carpeting in Rudolph Hall was in such bad shape - the whole building was still a pit - embarrassing.
We did have the most incredible critics, though - I was never scared at a presentation after leaving New Haven. Worked in Boston for 30 years, half of it with Shepley Bulfinch
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