In the latest episode of 99% Invisible, Hard to Love a Brute, Roman Mars and Avery Trufelman take a look at the potted history of the "hulking concrete brutes" of post-war Europe, centring on the UK, and the US east coast. Exploring Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron and Trellick towers, while making a pitstop in Boston, MA, this twenty minute podcast examines why people "love to hate" Brutalism and why, "as harsh as it looks, concrete is an utterly optimistic building material."
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99% Invisible Explores Brutalism, From London to Boston
04:00 - 12 August, 2015
https://www.archdaily.com/771733/99-percent-invisible-explores-brutalism-from-london-to-boston
James Taylor-Foster
Explore Erno Goldfinger's Balfron Tower Through A New Online Archive
05:00 - 29 April, 2015
Balfron Tower: a building archive, created by London-based PhD student David Roberts and graphic designer Duarte Carrilho da Graça, is an online archive that brings together public documents related to Erno Goldfinger's Balfron Tower. Shining a light on all of the research material which Roberts has gathered over the course of his studies, archival documents from during the tower's design phase to the most recent press articles are presented in the form of a timeline. You are also allowed the option of downloading these documents in full.
https://www.archdaily.com/624800/explore-erno-goldfinger-s-balfron-tower-through-a-new-online-archive
James Taylor-Foster
Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower to Open For Tours in October
00:00 - 25 September, 2014
The UK's National Trust has announced the 'pop-up' opening of a property in Ernö Goldfinger's famous Balfron Tower in London, offering public access to Flat 130 of the brutalist icon from the 1st to the 12th of October. Completed in 1967, the Balfron Tower was the first of Goldfinger's two distinctive London housing blocks (the other being Trellick Tower), and in 1968 Goldfinger himself lived for two months in Flat 130, to demonstrate the desirability of high-rise living.
More on the tours after the break
https://www.archdaily.com/551264/erno-goldfinger-s-balfron-tower-to-open-for-tours-in-october
Rory Stott
AD Classics: AD Classics: Balfron Tower / Erno Goldfinger
00:00 - 4 October, 2011
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Location
London, England -
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Erno Goldfinger -
References
www.balfronproject.co.uk, www.imagesofengland.org.uk, lovelondoncouncilhousing.blogspot.com -
Project Year
1967 -
Photographs
https://www.archdaily.com/160672/ad-classics-balfron-tower-erno-goldfinger
Tim Winstanley
AD Classics: Trellick Tower / Erno Goldfinger
00:00 - 28 August, 2011
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Architects
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Location
London, England -
Architect
Erno Goldfinger -
References
www.galinsky.com, www.housingprototypes.org, www.open2.net, www.modernarchitecturelondon.com -
Project Year
1972
https://www.archdaily.com/151227/ad-classics-trellick-tower-erno-goldfinger
Tim Winstanley