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House of Silence by Kouichi Kimura Architects
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House of Silence by Kouichi Kimura Architects
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Lower Manhattan’s notorious federal jail is finally closing. The brutalist Metropolitan Correctional Center, or MCC, l is the maximum-security federal jail that has seen its share of famous residents including most recently, Jeffrey Epstein.
MCC was the final piece of the monumental Civic Center development that included One Police Plaza, Murray Bergtraum High School, 350 Pearl Street, Chatham Towers and Chatham Green. Part of a federal program that commissioned additional jails in Chicago and San Diego of the same name, Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan replaced the former Federal House of Detention at 427 West Street at West 11th Street. According to The New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger, unlike the West Street jail and the Tombs up the block, MCC was supposed to be “the most progressive” and “incorporate the most advanced theories of prison architecture.. each unit is meant to stress human scale. ”
The design was heralded for its lack of prison-looking elements including guard towers, barbed wires, chain-linked fences, and large windowless walls, fitting in with the surrounding office buildings.
MCC has housed famous federal inmates over the years including drug lord El Chapo, Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff, John Gotti, terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. There have also been escape attempts over the years, the most publicized being in 1981 when a stolen helicopter unsuccessfully attempted to lift an inmate off the rooftop recreational center. Another attempt, this one successful, involved two inmates lowering themselves down from the second-story with an electrical cord. The men remain missing to this day. (Part of our #BrutalNYC project, documenting #brutalist #architecture in NYC. Visit nycurbanism.com.brutalnyc for more) (at Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York)
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Also new in our database and endangered to be demolished within the next few years. Plans to refurbish the building were dismissed, an architectural competition for a new town hall was announced in May 2021. As a reason for the demolition, not only the costly redevelopment is mentioned, the city is primarily aiming at redesigning the open spaces surrounding the building…
Wolfram Boresch / Helmut Xaver Haum: Town Hall Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany, 1970–1971
https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/20267788
Photo: © Fabian Schmerbeck 2021
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This pretty building with exposed aggregate concrete panels and partly overgrown green was sadly demolished in 2019 and replaced by a high-priced housing complex.
Christian Kronenbitter: Jesuit Provincialate, Munich, Germany
https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/20183408
Photos: © Oliver Heissner
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Concrete was celebrated in Royan – down to the last detail. Its Église Notre-Dame from 1955 was renovated in 2018 and today shines again in its full glory. Thanks so much to Filippo Poli for sharing his beautiful images with us!
>>> All new images of this building under https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/15891533<<<
Guillaume Gillet: Église Notre-Dame de Royan, Royan, France, 1955–1958
Photo: © Filippo Poli #SOSBrutalism
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Happy New Year to you all! We start the year 2022 with this Hamburg icon: Despite the Post-Pyramid was in a generally good condition and listed as part of the monument ensemble “City Nord”, it was demolished in 2018.
Let’s continue the fight for the preservation of our concrete monsters! … for the protection of significant architectural monuments, but also because in times of a global climate crisis we cannot justify demolishing functioning concrete structures instead of adapting them to current uses.
Gerhard Weber / Georg Küttinger: Central Post Administration Building Post-Pyramide, Hamburg, Germany, 1969–1977
https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/16520358
Photos: © Oliver Heissner
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