(No) respect for brutalism

 

The Prentice Women's Hospital was designed by master modern architect Bertrand Goldberg, in Chicago.

1973

1974

1975

Composed of a nine-story concrete cloverleaf tower cantilevered over a rectangular five-story podium, it was opened in 1975.

Released on October 2013, this 8-minute documentary, The Absent Column, talks about the struggle to save the building from demolition:

http://vimeo.com/77616076

And also:

Prentice Hospital is Falling Down

Prentice Hospital and the Difficult-to-Acquired Taste of Brutalism (;))