How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world ...

The General Services Administration's briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed ...

Its raw concrete exterior, modular design and cavernous interior spaces contrast starkly with the historic brick buildings surrounding it. Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall ...

It amounted to a viral reaction against the tidy reductionism of modernism’s own glass-walled box. Many of America’s brutalist buildings now present a choice between expensive renovation and ...

It is, we are supposed to understand, a brutalist building (hence the title). It is not. The building we see taking form (and in the shape of a huge model being lifted in to a presentation ...

But the English associations of the word "brutal" give "brutalist" architecture a forbidding sound. Imagine a brutalist building, and you imagine something harsh, cruel, barbaric. A not-nice building.

Imagine a brutalist building, and you imagine something harsh, cruel, barbaric. A not-nice building. A building that wants to hurt you. Or at least your feelings. "There's not a lot of middle ...

Now that the White House has decreed that all new government structures be made in a classical style, let’s cue up the ...

Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war. The F.B.I. headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building ...

Geometric Forms: Brutalist buildings favor rigid, block-like shapes and exaggerated proportions, creating a sense of weight and permanence. Function-First Philosophy: Rooted in modernist ...