Arlington House
Brutalism derives from the French term “béton brut”, meaning "raw concrete". Brutalist buildings primary material is concrete and often include repeating shapes or patterns, used in a modular or grid-based way. Rectilinear examples of these patterns are shown in the Arlington House tower block. However, some Brutalist structures incorporated curved lines and more complex patterns. While Brutalist buildings to some are known as "concrete boxes", Brutalism consists of a wide range of style and shapes.
Brutalism by DesignLab
Arlington House - a brutalist 18-storey tower block in the resort town of Margate completed in 1964 and was advertised as "Britain's first 'park and buy' shopping centre with luxury flats", the site marked the beginning of Margate's redevelopment. Arlington House was designed by Philip Russell Diplock (1927) of Russell Diplock Associates and created by Bernard Sunley (1910-1964) of Bernard Sunley and Sons who built with white concrete cladding that had shiny flecks of mica, the residential block was an example of the modern architectural style known as Brutalism. Beach-front and leisure developments were already familiar in Havana and Florida and Bernard Sunley, who built extensively in the Caribbean in the 1950s specialising in leisure and office complexes, transported it to Margate. However, Arlington House struggled to occupy the flats and the leisure and retail units with a spokesman for the Bernard Sunley group quoted "the block is a bit ahead of it's time".
The concrete tower block consists of four flats on every floor and positioned north-south which allows each flat to have a direct view of Margate Sands. The windows are situated in aluminium frames which can slide open horizontally and below the windows are white concrete panels containing a calcined flint aggregate, which originally sparkled in the sun.
Katya transferred geometrical, repeating shapes and patterns of the brutalist Arlington House tower block onto rectangular cardboard boxes. Each box demonstrates a detailed view of the tower block, whilst the positioning of the work presents some of the angles the block is viewed. The surface of the boxes are flat unlike its design which the sides of the tower block have a 'wave-like' design. The shape and of the boxes...
2020
Brutalism derives from the French term “béton brut”, meaning "raw concrete". Brutalist buildings primary material is concrete and often include repeating shapes or patterns, used in a modular or grid-based way. Rectilinear examples of these patterns are shown in the Arlington House tower block. However, some Brutalist structures incorporated curved lines and more complex patterns. While Brutalist buildings to some are known as "concrete boxes", Brutalism consists of a wide range of style and shapes.
Brutalism by DesignLab
Arlington House - a brutalist 18-storey tower block in the resort town of Margate completed in 1964 and was advertised as "Britain's first 'park and buy' shopping centre with luxury flats", the site marked the beginning of Margate's redevelopment. Arlington House was designed by Philip Russell Diplock (1927) of Russell Diplock Associates and created by Bernard Sunley (1910-1964) of Bernard Sunley and Sons who built with white concrete cladding that had shiny flecks of mica, the residential block was an example of the modern architectural style known as Brutalism. Beach-front and leisure developments were already familiar in Havana and Florida and Bernard Sunley, who built extensively in the Caribbean in the 1950s specialising in leisure and office complexes, transported it to Margate. However, Arlington House struggled to occupy the flats and the leisure and retail units with a spokesman for the Bernard Sunley group quoted "the block is a bit ahead of it's time".
The concrete tower block consists of four flats on every floor and positioned north-south which allows each flat to have a direct view of Margate Sands. The windows are situated in aluminium frames which can slide open horizontally and below the windows are white concrete panels containing a calcined flint aggregate, which originally sparkled in the sun.
Katya transferred geometrical, repeating shapes and patterns of the brutalist Arlington House tower block onto rectangular cardboard boxes. Each box demonstrates a detailed view of the tower block, whilst the positioning of the work presents some of the angles the block is viewed. The surface of the boxes are flat unlike its design which the sides of the tower block have a 'wave-like' design. The shape and of the boxes...
2020