I think some brutalism is quite good in small doses, but like grollo said, they've often got terrible barren blank-walled windswept street frontages. They usually turn out best when they've only got a small parcel of land to work with and as such are 'forced' into the existing city fabric (e.g. faculty of engineering, Uni of Melb).
I quite like like all of these examples above barring the Swanston Street monstrosity and I'm not too fond on the Harold Holt Swim centre either... although that could just be because I wouldn't be too comfortable swiming in a pool named after someone who....ahhh.... you know the story...
I think a lot more people would shine to these buildings if they sanded back the weathered concrete to reveal a fresh concrete face, or clad them in bluestone.
Am I the only one who love the BHP Billiton concrete?
I quite like like all of these examples above barring the Swanston Street monstrosity and I'm not too fond on the Harold Holt Swim centre either... although that could just be because I wouldn't be too comfortable swiming in a pool named after someone who....ahhh.... you know the story...
I think a lot more people would shine to these buildings if they sanded back the weathered concrete to reveal a fresh concrete face, or clad them in bluestone.
Am I the only one who love the BHP Billiton concrete?
