r/brutalism: A friendly place to discover and appreciate brutalist buildings and architecture. Share photos, read articles, and discuss.

99% of brutalist architecture that isn't major public landmarks is just hostile, antisocial, prison-looking monoliths that completely ruin any chance of fostering community or urban vitality by …

People love to hate on Brutalist architecture to the point where many cities are tearing them down and rebuilding. I think this is a mistake. This is a distinct architectural style with historic value. …

The Lloyd Plaza buildings on Irving between NE 12th and 16th are great. There was a great a brutalist office building across the street at 1500 NE Irving, but they recently ruined it by …

For most brutalist buildings I agree, but I think brutalist architecture can work - The best example I have is The Barbican Centre , a housing estate and arts centre in London. It's got almost a …

Brutalist architecture. Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist …

I'm afraid I don't have time to give a more detailed answer, but Brutalism suffered from a) that name, which as another poster stated, doesn't have the meaning that such a term connotes in …

2022年12月26日 · Glass is by far the most expensive building material and is the hardest to handle. If it curves or has any funny shape, the price is exponentially higher. That’s really …

Brutalist architecture aims to focus on function and cost, maximizing useable space at the cost of things like paneling that might have covered things like pipes/structural pillars. The hard …

2022年2月11日 · This time - rougly from the 1940s to the 1970s - coincided with an enormous expansion of the public sector, mass construction of social housing (which was largely built in …