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Building records
Every entry carries architect, engineer, dates of design and completion, structural system, current owner and heritage status. 4,812 records and counting.
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§ 0 — Introduction
The Concrete Archive documents post-war brutalist architecture before it disappears. Buildings, drawings, residents and demolitions, catalogued in plain tables and released as raw data. No accounts. No ads. No rounded corners.
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| 4,812buildings recorded | 61countries | 1,093demolished since 1990 | 412currently at risk | 2,307volunteer contributors |
| No. | Building | Architect | City | Year | Status |
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| CA-4812 | Hallam Terrace Estate | R. Okonkwo & Partners | Northgate | 1968 | [x] Demolished |
| CA-4811 | Palazzo del Lavoro Nuovo | Studio Ferrandi | Turrino | 1961 | [ ] Standing |
| CA-4810 | Krajina Telecom Tower | D. Vukmirović | Brelov | 1974 | [!] At risk |
| CA-4809 | St. Aldric Parish Centre | Whitcombe Hale Assoc. | Dunmere | 1966 | [ ] Listed |
| CA-4808 | Rua Seca Housing Block 3 | Atelier Pinheiro | Vila Alta | 1972 | [ ] Standing |
| CA-4807 | Municipal Library Ost | H. Lindqvist | Kalmhavn | 1970 | [!] At risk |
| CA-4806 | The Engineering Faculty | Marlow, Teague & Ross | Ashbury | 1965 | [ ] Standing |
| CA-4805 | Hotel Panorama Sud | B. Albescu | Costinel | 1977 | [x] Demolished |
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Six collections, one database. Everything is cross-referenced by building number, and everything can be downloaded.
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Every entry carries architect, engineer, dates of design and completion, structural system, current owner and heritage status. 4,812 records and counting.
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Scanned sections, elevations and site plans from municipal archives, released under open licence where the law allows. 19,340 sheets.
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A dated log of every brutalist building lost since 1990, with the last known photograph and the reason given. 1,093 entries.
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Recorded interviews with residents, caretakers, site engineers and the occasional surviving architect. 312 hours, fully transcribed.
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The whole archive as CSV, GeoJSON and SQL dump, updated nightly. No account, no API key, no rate limit worth mentioning.
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Planning applications that threaten a recorded building are flagged within 48 hours and sent to the nearest volunteer chapter.
RECORD CA-4810
NAME Krajina Telecom Tower
ARCHITECT Dušan Vukmirović
ENGINEER Zavod za konstrukcije, Brelov
DESIGNED 1969
COMPLETED 1974
STRUCTURE in-situ reinforced concrete,
cantilevered floor plates
HEIGHT 86.4 m / 21 storeys
STATUS AT RISK (planning ref. BR/26/0417)
SOURCES [1] municipal archive, box 112
[2] interview, M. Kovač, 2023
[3] site survey, 04.2026
LICENCE CC BY-SA 4.0Fig. 2. Every record is a flat text file before it is anything else. The website is just a reading room in front of the files.
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“Ethic, not aesthetic. The building should show how it is made, what it is made of, and who it was made for.”
No. 001 · received 14.08.2026
I grew up on the eleventh floor of Hallam Terrace. When it came down, this archive was the only place that kept the drawings, the names of the caretakers, and my mother’s interview. Thank you.
No. 002 · received 02.06.2026
We cited the Concrete Archive in our listing application for the Engineering Faculty. The inspector called the dossier “unusually complete”. It was granted.
No. 003 · received 19.03.2026
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The archive is free to read, forever. Members pay for the servers, the scanning and the lawyers. Institutions get the printed register.
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