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Architectural anomalies

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Fregene

Jun 2026

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The Glass Factory · Walter Gropius’s final building · Amberg 2026

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British Embassy, by Sir Basil Spence (1971).

Rome, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2014

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The Chiesa Madre (Mother Church) in Gibellina Nuova, Sicily designed by Italian architect Ludovico Quaroni, completed in 1972

A landmark of Brutalist architecture, the design features a massive concrete sphere, symbolising perfection and the universe

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homage to Lenin

State Museum of History of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, May 2026

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Hotel Amanauz, Dombai, Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia (Caucasus).

A late-1980s Soviet brutalist project designed with that wild honeycomb facade of modular balconies. It was planned as a huge resort hotel (~480 rooms, cinema for 630) and even had a rumored rotating base to follow the sun.

Construction halted mid-project due to foundation cracks and funding collapse as the USSR fell.

It’s stood abandoned ever since - a concrete monument to ambitious dreams that never finished.

Credit: Kerala Student

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Gas tank in Wesseling, Germany, 1992. Photo by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

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concrete dreams

Deira Tower, Dubai, UAE, Jan. 2026

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Essen, Germany, 1972. Photo by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher.

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Stade Larbi Benbarek, former Stade Philip, by Abdelkader Bensalem and Domenico Basciano (1989).

Casablanca, Morocco.

© Roberto Conte (2022)

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Three sisters.

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Hilliard Homes, architecture by Bertrand Goldberg, 1963, in Chicago.

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Intourist Garage, by Konstantin Melnikov (1933-1935).

Moscow, Russia.

© Roberto Conte (2016)

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Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall, Japan, 1961

(Kunio Maekawa)

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Can Sau, Olot, Spain - Unparelld’Arquitectes

Un Parell d'Arquitectes és un estudi d'arquitectura dirigit per Eduard Callís i Guillem Moliner des de la ciutat d'Olot, establert l'any 200

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Bertrand Goldberg’s St Joseph Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington

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René Groebli carrying out repair work on his centuries-old dry-stone wall house,a so-called Borie in southern France, 1982.