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He is best known for designing Habitat 67, a residential building in Montreal. Based on his master’s thesis, it is made up of large concrete blocks and houses no less than 164 apartment units.
1501 S. Semoran Blvd. This is a 1970s-era low-rider with Marcel Breuer-style windows, a crystalline, concrete flat pancake of a building crying out for a garden front and some professional TLC.
Depending on who you ask, brutalist buildings like the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., are little more than misshapen mounds of concrete. But architecture professor Mark Pasnik ...
Brutalism represents a "freedom to be expressive" and has a "distinctive and unique" design, he added. Spaceplay The Elephant Building was built in the 1970s in Coventry city centre ...
The must-see: Belgrade’s tallest building, the 36-storey Genex Tower (officialy the Western City Gate) is a true bastion of brutalism, topped with a revolving restaurant that, ironically, never ...
Designs from the era express Brutalism in myriad ways, from Marcel Breuer’s trefoil-shaped UNESCO headquarters to Pierre Vivien’s saucer-like Murat Telecommunications building.
Post-war concrete architecture was decried by many as ugly – but now Brutalist buildings are back in fashion, writes Jonathan Glancey.
The Orange County government building in Goshen, N.Y., has a leaky roof, faulty ventilation and mold and, in the eyes of many, is just plain ugly. Officials shut it down last year and would like ...
‘Brutalist Plants’ is a new book featuring an impressive selection of imagery that captures the very best of the trend of 'eco-brutalism'. This texture-rich movement has been gathering attention ...