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	New York Architecture Images- Williamsburg Brooklyn Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center
architect	Kallman & McKiniell /Russo & Sonder, associated architects.
location	760 Broadway at Flushing Avenue Brooklyn
date	1977
style	Brutalism
type	Utility
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A space odyssey that landed at this juncture of Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Bushwick, this machine for health was the most technologically and architecturally up-to-date, and the most expensive, hospital of its time. The self-weathering steel has acquired a deep purple-brown patina on this bold, cubistic place. Great human-high trusses span 69 feet, within which workers can adjust the complex piping and tubing that serve the rooms and laboratories above and below these interleaved service levels. Kallman & McKiniell's first and major monument was the competition-winning Boston City Hall. With this machine for medicine they have created a superbuilding, a somewhat scary ode to health, dedicated more to the efficiency of health economics than to the serenity of its clients. Widely reviewed in architectural literature, it has won many prizes.
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	with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York",