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Secretariat Building, Chandigarh, India, part of UNESCO World Heritage site. Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. The following list provides numerous examples of this architectural style worldwide.
"Brutalist buildings often have a stark, monolithic appearance, with exposed concrete as the primary building material," says Nancy Parish, an interior designer in Charlotte, North Carolina. "This ...
Aerial render of the Build The Earth project on a modified Airocean World Map. Build the Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct ...
A notable pairing of brutalist campus buildings is found at Durham University, with Ove Arup's Grade I-listed Kingsgate Bridge (1963), one of only six post-1961 buildings to have been listed as Grade I by 2017, [74] [75] and the Grade II-listed Dunelm House (Richard Raines of the Architects' Co-Partnership; 1964–66), described in its listing ...
Robert T. "Bobby" Burgess Building, DeKalb County Police Department, 3610 Camp Drive (1972) First National Bank of Atlanta, 2849 N. Druid Hills Road NE (ca. 1973) Clairemont Oaks, 441 Clairemont Avenue (1973-1975) DeKalb County Parking Deck, 125 W. Trinity Place (1974) Brevard Professional Building, 246 Sycamore Street (1974)
Brutalist architecture — a mid−20th century style of Modernist architecture. Those buildings and structures built in, or strikingly similar to, the Brutalist architectural style . Subcategories
Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks. Perhaps the most iconic is the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, declared the ugliest building in the U.S. and the second ugliest in the world in a ...
The 300,000-square-foot building [5] "was celebrated worldwide when it was built", according to Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation president Kelvin Dickinson. [7] Rudolph was known for brutalism, and a Historic American Buildings Survey dated 2018 said the building was "frequently described as Brutalist" and that its design was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Rudolph's work on ...