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Brutalist Anthropomorphic War of the Worlds Hoisting House, 1927

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All you really need on this structure to complete its Brutalist International Style is a little swastika on the top.  Seriously, though, the 170′-tall building is located at the pithead of a mine somewhere in Holland. It is found in the June 1927 issue of  Popular Mechanics and celebrates its concrete construction, and was an achievement for the time. Still, it has a very distinct flavor of Wells’ (earlier) aliens in his War of the Worlds. 

…and if this structure does spell anything at all, it is “rigidity”.

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