Pointless Prize: 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[rumipumi]

2/14 brutalist

College Park City Hall

A great article about this oft misunderstood architectural style: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/03/25/brutalist-architecture-washington-dc/

Also: https://instagram.com/brutalistdc?utm_medium=copy_link

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[bikingjenn]

3-13-22 Brutalism Love this game…learning new things about our environs

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[Kbikeva]

3/13/2022 Brutalist

I have no idea what this building is, but I think it fits the description. Sorry the orientation is off.

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[consularrider]

3/13/2022 – Brutalist

Minton-Capehart Federal Building, 575 N Pennsylvania, Indianapolis. I started my Federal career here in 1976 with the Social Security Administration. The building was only two years old then.

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

3/13/2022 brutalist
More examples in my Strava of this architectural style which was popular in the earliest phase of Reston’s development. (Can’t believe I let my kids play on the concrete climbing structure in the foreground, back in the day!)

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[Indiana]

3/13/2022 Brutalist

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The Ariel Rios Federal Building on New York Avenue NE in NoMa was constructed in 2008 with a Brutalist exterior. It houses the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and is banned after an ATF undercover special agent who was killed in action in 1982.

Standing by several Brutalist buildings today made me better appreciate that feeling of permanence evoked by large agglomerations of concrete. I’m not sure if the plants on the ATF building would push it into the territory of so-called eco-Brutalism. Concrete is certainly not the most environmentally friendly construction material, but leads to an interesting effect.

[Catedrew]

3-13-22 Brutalist architecture

We have two in one photo here. The combined Columbia Pike Library/Career Center in the foreground, and the multi-storied office building behind it in the background. Both of raw concrete, with no color.

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[CBGanimal]

3/13/2022 Brutalist I’ve never been inside this building yet but I’m guessing the brutalist outside is appropriate!

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[sszibler]

“British Columbia’s Arthur Erickson designed the Embassy of Canada with long horizontal shapes and wide open spaces. Despite it being Brutalist, former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker described the structure positively, saying, “I think [it] conveys the warmth and the openness of the people of Canada.”

Still out here ridin’! Bathrooms at Jones Point are a nice place to warm up and load photos.

[bigredboiler]

3-13 Brutalist architecture

Luckily, Eugene Sternberg, a European architect, who moved to Colorado after WWII, had a brutalist period during the 70s. He did a few significant buildings around Littleton. Here is Heritage high school. I originally thought I would share the community college photo, but it was so drab with just concrete, that I liked this one with some color and nice statue in the foreground

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[CaseyKane50]

3/14/2022 Painted Ladies

South Fairfax Street
Alexandria, Virginia

[bikesnick]

3/14/2022 painted lady
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[bikesnick]

@consularrider 218155 wrote:

3/13/2022 – Brutalist

Minton-Capehart Federal Building, 575 N Pennsylvania, Indianapolis. …

Sorry for the ‘dislike’; bad clicking on my part and cannot undo.

[Nadine]

3/14/22 – painted ladies in Georgetown!

I especially like the bright teal one

[CBGanimal]

3/14/2022 Painted Ladies in Alexandria

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