{"id":1844,"date":"2009-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:15:22","slug":"brutalism-in-tulsa-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Brutalism in Tulsa, OK"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have to apologize for this post. I know that the implied requirement is to show “nice” things. I think I’ve done that with some of my earlier posts with photos of old trains and art deco buildings. Tulsa has a bunch of beautiful buildings, many art deco, many of other styles but on the west end of downtown sits a collection of butt ugly buildings.<\/p>\n

I come to find out that these butt ugly buildings are of a style called “Brutalism” from the French “Breton Brut” which means raw concrete. It is a style of architecture which is supposed to be true to the materials of which the building is constructed. Most of the time that is concrete. The style was started by a French guy named Corbusier. Many college campuses have lots of Brutalist Buildings. I knew that they were ugly. I just didn’t know that ugly had its own name.<\/p>\n

The architecture is certainly true to its material with no decoration but it is ugly. The buildings in Tulsa that I am referring is a complex of the City County Library, old City Hall, Police Headquarters, and the Civic Arena. They are all grouped together and share one of those wide expanses of concrete which is supposed to be a plaza but is brutally cold or hot, depending on the season, but always windswept. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a> Civic Arena – Nice on the inside, Ugly on the outside. Being remodeled to a convention center with lots of meeting rooms.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Tulsa Police Headquarters<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Slightly used vacant City Hall – Asking price about $1 million. Will probably have to be demolished.
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<\/a>Library – cramped outmoded. I love what’s inside but we need a new one. It will be a long time though.<\/p>\n

For learning about other parts of the world we share check out That’s My World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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