The Best Brutalist Buildings Around The World...

[spiralout]

I usually don't like brutalist stuff but the Republic tower in Melbourne is one I like. Purely exposed concrete and black windows never looked so good
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[redstone]

That's not brutalist

[redstone]

Jurong Town Hall in Singapore, 1975

[Cesarquitecto]

Centro Civico de Lima in Peru



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[VisionoftheWorld]

These aren't probably the 'best in the world' but they're my own pictures (on flickr) and I love this architectural style. Was amazed that I could find examples of it within an hour of where I live!

Melvin Municipal Building (City Hall) Greensboro, North Carolina:
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with the County Courthouse:
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I took in 2008, one picture only of the famous Sheraton Hotel in Toronto. Probably all over this website, anyway. All the buildings here are from the year 1972!
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[t123]

actually, although they seem dirty and bulky, I kinda like this kind of architectural style. They give you an old-fashion sense of futurist

[S_O_N_Y]

AT&T long lines building

http://wiezowce.blox.pl/resource/33thomas4.jpg

[Benn]

No Yale A&A or late Le Corbusier? seems like a badly incomplete thread on brutalism without those.

Yale Art and Architecture building by Paul Rudoloh its like the definition of brutalism, and done really well in my opinion.


Unite d'Habitation, Marseille, Le Corbusier
A very neat housing project from his later years, was poorly ripped off in the US in the development of some of the infamous housing projects, as well as one or two halfway decent town in town ideas.







By the way brutalism does not come from the term brutal, its from beton brut, the French term for raw concrete, not modernism one might find ugly (though alot of it is pretty bad).

[White Shadows]

London Bank, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Clorindo Testa

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[Botswana]

Brutalism is probably the worst thing to come out of the twentieth century outside of MTV.

[KevD]

Originally Posted by Botswana

Brutalism is probably the worst thing to come out of the twentieth century outside of MTV.

No way!! It's so awesome in a beautifully ugly way. But I guess I can understand why you hate it, since you live in Edmonton and there's so much of it that it can become "too much" perhaps.

[connected_]

University of Technology Sydney, Tower Building:

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[arief_malaysia96]

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[Turbosnail]

This thread title is a contradiction in terms - surely you mean least crap brutalist buildings.

[Brunarino]

Originally Posted by Iluminat

Wisma Dharmala Sakti
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I like the concept of this one, turning the balconies into roof pitches, to remind to the roof, I'd call it post-modern instead of a pure brutalist.

Originally Posted by Natataek

Errrm....it seems some of you need to study architectural styles a bit better: 90% of the photo's posted so far aren't brutalist at all!

Well yeah, it's a style that overlaps modernism, rationalism and the 70s minimal-futuristic architecture.

This one for instance Domus justitiae - Palácio da Justiça - Lisbon, Portugal, LINK with its geometric decorations would fit better the definition of modernist/rationalism than brutalism.

[The Cake On BBQ]

Love the London Bank

[elculo]

Originally Posted by arief_malaysia96

SABAH,MALAYSIA l SABAH FOUNDATION BUILDING l 122m l 30fl
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...5#post62728545

Sorry, but why did you post this here? It has obviously nothing to do with brutalism...

[VisionoftheWorld]

Strom Thurmond Federal Building in Columbia SC, designed by Marcel Bruer (1976-79)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49286546@N08/4871527259

The Morton Funger Hall at George Washington University, DC
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Third Church of Christ Scientist, Washington DC (1970) taken a few weeks ago, my favorite Brutalist building
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side of the church that faces the street, one small window only!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49286546@N08/4911237645
The Third Church plaza also includes the Christian Science Monitor Reading Room, as designed by the architect Arnaldo Cossuta
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49286546@N08/4911237649/

Links.. oh well. Your image thing is broken guys. I done tried.

[minneapolis-uptown]

Brutalist buildings in minneapolis:

Riverside Plaza


Ebenezer tower:


Rarig Center:


Downtown YWCA:
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[Benn]

I see some Rapson, Cedar r\Riverside is well arranged on its site and definitely one of the better federally sponsored housing projects, but the colored panels haven't withstood the test of time very well, and there aren't enough elevators. And I would have to Rarig has the ugliest exterior of his career, wonderful theaters inside though, not quite to the standard of the original Guthrie Theatre, but excellent for a university theater program.