#Brick Expressionism architecture

[thewolfnessphotography]

Hamburg. Germany

[germanpostwarmodern]

Town Hall and Water Tower (1925-26) in Neuenhagen, Germany, by Wilhelm Wagner

[dashalbrundezimmer]

vijzelstraat // amsterdam gouden bocht

de bazel / amsterdam city archives

architect: karel de bazel

completion: 1926

this monumental example of brick expressionism now houses the amsterdam city archives and is open to the public.

dieses monumentale beispiel des backsteinexpressionismus beherbergt heute das städtische archiv amsterdams und ist auch für besucher zugänglich.

[arc-hus]

St. Bonifatius Church, Cologne, Germany - Heinz Bienefeld

[scavengedluxury]

Sprinkenhof, Hamburg, 1939. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[salantami]

Böttcherstraße Bremen

Böttcherstraße is a street in the historic centre of Bremen, Germany. Only about 100 m (330 ft) long, it is famous for its unusual architecture and ranks among the city's main cultural landmarks and visitor attractions. Most of its buildings were erected between 1922 and 1931, primarily as a result of the initiative of Ludwig Roselius, a Bremen-based coffee-trader, who charged Bernhard Hoetger with the artistic supervision over the project. The street and its buildings are a rare example of an architectural ensemble belonging to a variant of the expressionist style. Several of the houses can be classed as Brick Expressionism. Since 1973, the ensemble has been protected by the Monument Protection Act

Photo by: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0eBH52CqTS/

[shylightqueen]

The Chilehaus is a ten-story office building in Hamburg, Germany. It is located in the Kontorhaus District. It is an exceptional example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture.

[char1ottee]

New York City Culture🗽

New York City is frequently the setting for novels, movies, and television programs and has been described as the cultural capital of the world. In describing New York, author Tom Wolfe said, "Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather."

The city is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art; abstract expressionism (known as the New York School) in painting; and hip-hop, punk, hardcore, salsa, freestyle, Tin Pan Alley, certain forms of jazz, and (along with Philadelphia) disco in music. New York City has been considered the dance capital of the world.

One of the most common traits attributed to New York City is its fast pace, which spawned the term New York minute. Journalist Walt Whitman characterized New York's streets as being traversed by "hurrying, feverish, electric crowds". New York City's residents are prominently known for their resilience historically, and more recently related to their management of the impacts of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic. New York was voted the world's most resilient city in 2021 and 2022 per Time Out's global poll of urban residents.

Theater🎭

The central hub of the American theater scene is Manhattan, with its divisions of Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway. Many movie and television stars have gotten their big break working in New York productions.

Broadway theatre is one of the premier forms of English-language theatre in the world, named after Broadway, the major thoroughfare that crosses Times Square, sometimes referred to as "The Great White Way".

Forty-one venues mostly in Midtown Manhattan's Theatre District, each with at least 500 seats, are classified as Broadway theatres. The 2018–19 Broadway theatre season set records with total attendance of 14.8 million and gross revenue of $1.83 billion Recovering from closures forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022-23 revenues rebounded to $1.58 billion with total attendance of 12.3 million.

The Tony Awards recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre and are presented at an annual ceremony in Manhattan. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances at the 41 eligible Broadway venues. One is also given for regional theatre. Several discretionary non-competitive awards are given as well, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award.

Architecture

New York has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles and from distinct time periods, from the Dutch Colonial Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, the oldest section of which dates to 1656, to the modern One World Trade Center, the skyscraper at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan and the most expensive office tower in the world by construction cost.

Manhattan's skyline, with its many skyscrapers, is universally recognized, and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world. As of 2019, New York City had 6,455 high-rise buildings, the third most in the world after Hong Kong and Seoul.

The character of New York's large residential districts is often defined by the elegant brownstone rowhouses and townhouses and shabby tenements that were built during a period of rapid expansion from 1870 to 1930. Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835.

In contrast, New York City also has neighborhoods that are less densely populated and feature free-standing dwellings. In neighborhoods such as Riverdale (in the Bronx), Ditmas Park (in Brooklyn), and Douglaston (in Queens), large single-family homes are common in various architectural styles such as Tudor Revival and Victorian.

Arts🩰

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, anchoring Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is home to numerous influential arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet, as well as the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Alice Tully Hall. The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is in Union Square, and Tisch School of the Arts is based at New York University, while Central Park SummerStage presents free music concerts in Central Park.

New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 art galleries. The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts. The city is also home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites. Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in the upper portion of Carnegie Hill.

Nine museums occupy the length of this section of Fifth Avenue, making it one of the densest displays of culture in the world. Its art museums include the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie New York, and The Africa Center. In addition to other programming, the museums collaborate for the annual Museum Mile Festival, held each year in June, to promote the museums and increase visitation. Many of the world's most lucrative art auctions are held in New York City.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the Americas. In 2022, it welcomed 3.2 million visitors, ranking it the third most visited U.S. museum, and eighth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments, and includes works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt; paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters; and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art.

Fashion🛍️

New York has frequently been ranked the top fashion capital of the world on the annual list compiled by the Global Language Monitor. New York Fashion Week (NYFW) is a high-profile semiannual event featuring models displaying the latest wardrobes created by prominent fashion designers worldwide in advance of these fashions proceeding to the retail marketplace.

NYFW sets the tone for the global fashion industry. New York's fashion district encompasses roughly 30 city blocks in Midtown Manhattan, clustered around a stretch of Seventh Avenue nicknamed Fashion Avenue. New York's fashion calendar also includes Couture Fashion Week to showcase haute couture styles. The Met Gala is often described as "Fashion's biggest night".

Parades

New York City is well known for its street parades, the majority held in Manhattan. The primary orientation of the annual street parades is typically from north to south, marching along major avenues. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade, beginning alongside Central Park and proceeding southward to the flagship Macy's Herald Square store; the parade is viewed on telecasts worldwide and draws millions of spectators in person. Other notable parades including the annual New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade in March, the NYC LGBT Pride March in June, the LGBT-inspired Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in October, and numerous parades commemorating the independence days of many nations. Ticker-tape parades celebrating championships won by sports teams as well as other accomplishments march northward along the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway from Bowling Green to City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan.

[videogameref]

The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. It is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to German Brick Expressionism.

[normally0]

Cosmic Visions: The Architect's Reach

In flames, the heart of London burned,

Yet from the ashes, vision turned.

Wren and Hooke, with cosmic sight,

Raised the Monument, reaching light.

A zenith telescope to pierce the skies,

In troubled times, let hope arise.

Einstein’s tower, bold and grand,

In Potsdam’s park, it takes its stand.

A solar eye to catch the shift,

In spectral lines, the cosmic drift.

Mendelsohn’s craft, a curving form,

A shelter in the cosmic storm.

In peace or war, the architects see,

Beyond the now, what will be.

Their hands rebuild where hope is true,

Creating visions, old and new.

From brick and stucco, curves take flight,

To catch the stars in darkest night.

The Einstein Tower, like a ship,

On cosmic seas, it makes its trip.

Organic lines, as Einstein said,

From mystic thoughts, the forms are led.

In troubled times or days of peace,

The cosmic reach shall never cease.

Architecture stands, both firm and free,

A testament to what can be.

In stone and light, in curve and line,

The hope of worlds, forever shines.

#Architecture #EinsteinTower #Mendelsohn #Wren #Hooke #Monument #CosmicReach #Astrophysics #Expressionism #GeneralRelativity #SolarObservatory #Potsdam #Berlin #RebuildingHope #Design #Innovation #History #ScienceAndArt #VisionaryArchitecture

[thewolfnessphotography]

Hamburg. Germany

[germanpostwarmodern]

Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium (1930-31) in Lünen, Germany, by D. & K. Schulze. Photo from April 2025.

[dashalbrundezimmer]

zijlstraat // haarlem

architect: hermann friedrich mertens

completion: 1920

the former bank building was built in the style of the amsterdam school and now houses several tenants. the façade has been largely preserved despite the resulting alterations.

das ehemalige bankgebäude wurde im stil der amsterdamer schule erbaut und beherbergt heute mehrere mieter. die fassade blieb trotz der dadurch erfolgten umbauten größtenteils erhalten

[halfcorpse-halfghost]

I think it's interesting that whenever I see photos like these, I get a sort-of liminal feeling when I stare at them. Like I know something is deeply, deeply wrong but it isn't very obvious. The city is too empty for an area as dense as this. Its architecture is similar to my hometown, Winchester, but it's void of life. I guess it's because this was taken in Nazi Germany, but I'm not sure.

Sprinkenhof, Hamburg, 1939. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[salantami]

Böttcherstraße Bremen

Böttcherstraße is a street in the historic centre of Bremen, Germany. Only about 100 m (330 ft) long, it is famous for its unusual architecture and ranks among the city's main cultural landmarks and visitor attractions. Most of its buildings were erected between 1922 and 1931, primarily as a result of the initiative of Ludwig Roselius, a Bremen-based coffee-trader, who charged Bernhard Hoetger with the artistic supervision over the project. The street and its buildings are a rare example of an architectural ensemble belonging to a variant of the expressionist style. Several of the houses can be classed as Brick Expressionism. Since 1973, the ensemble has been protected by the Monument Protection Act

[chamud1964]

#hamburg #modernarchitecture #architecture #1920s #brick #expressionism #streetphotography #cityphotography #city #cityscape #cityview #citylife #mypov (at Sprinkenhof) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGwq-OhnNFo/?igshid=fck1unpy6uff