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Source and info: The 17 Most Beautiful Brutalist Buildings in the World From Bulgaria to Buenos Aires, these gems prove that, in architecture, there’s often more than meets the eye https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/most-beautiful-brutalist-buildings-world
Filanwizard
#6 kinda looks like the hotel with the monorail going through it at Disney.
VALKATOVE
I like most of them.
keppler38
Habitat 67 represent.
weirdinchicago
Well that's my daily dose of ugly.
MNutpunchMNICEallday
Yup. Them's's some buildings alright.
magpiegriffin
I hate most of these but I like architecture, so +1
UltraLincoln
Tonight I'ma boot up Empyrion and make some weird, brutalist buildings
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
What is this, Reach??
Wafflesmartano
Yea the first pix was my library at UCSD! LONG study nights at Geisel.
homoneurotic
#3 The Vex have a hideout
greenbikeguy
Not a single Louis Kahn building made it to this list??
tailspin75
Last one is from Sydney, Circular Quay?
Poopypantaloon
Yep the Sirius building. Pic must be from after they kicked all the residents out. Missing the “Jesus Saves” bed sheet window sign.
FriendlyNeighborhoodGrammarPerson
So is brutalism basically just dystopian architecture?
ReginaKasteen
Yes. Very popular in Eastern Europe during the late unpleasantnesses.
HappyDude2
Call me crazy, but I like PIP concrete.
shyriath
Not gonna lie, I hate them all. ...except maybe #14 .
chreberle
piratedn1nj4
Eyy ucsd, the third floor is the outside
DocWino
I really like the first one. The rest, not so much.
TomBrokaw
DocWino
Very cool!
conklin5
Brutalism can be gorgeous and brilliant. But when it's not, it's oppressive and horrifying.
JeffGodofBiscuits
Some of them look like they could be easily fortified into good, strong, zombie resistant homesteads, between 7/10 to 10/10 scores
dawggunner
I swear you people have the weirdest scales so I'll fix it for you: 5/7 perfect zombie bunkers
MachineInterface
Lol, strong; many brutalist buildings are falling appart due to shoddy construction and maintenance, suffering from concrete rot, etc
BryanLaserEpee
That was a huge thing on reddit like 11 years ago. There's some building that got designated THE zombie survival fortress
wooliebooger
SherMattLockSmith
Forgot my favorite, 43 Thomas St NYC
keenharlequin
*33. Probably an NSA surveillance hub these days :)
headkitchen
unclefishbits
Looks like Dredd's Peachtree LOL Thanks!
ReginaKasteen
Those windows (?) make it look like it's a dried-up aqueduct.
deadlywolf04
Air ducts, the only windows are at the entrance.
DaNylz
Also Uni Bochums Audimax lecture hall: https://bigbeautifulbuildings.de/objekte/audimax-ruhr-universitaet
DeepBlueNothing
I love these buidlings, we need more uniqueness in how we construct buildings.
YuffieK
ilost16lbs
I had to spend 4 year studying chemistry in that first one…super brutal….
ilost16lbs
Got a BJ in one of the study rooms once…so that was nice
Rockafella83
Architect's dreams are engineer's nightmares
inthepines
AutoFox
I love brutalist architecture. Most of my family thinks I'm weird.
unclefishbits
Hello weird. I also enjoy brutalist architecture. Most of my family thinks I'm Mike.
AutoFox
Hello Mike!
MachineInterface
Several of these wouldn't be so bad if they didn't insist on "naked concrete" as the only texture.
bikergeek6249
The term "Brutalism" comes from the French "beton brut" which literally means "naked concrete".
FnordGallop
You know, that's a very trenchant criticism of brutalism. Also the fact that typically the interior spaces are terrible places to live and
FnordGallop
work due to the absence of light, the difficulties with climate control and the inability to repair the buildings properly.
FnordGallop
Yes, that's right, the way you repair the exterior of this kind of structure is you jackhammer the concrete off the outside and reapply it.
tinydog
What is "brutalist" architecture?
TheDayTheBrainStoodStill
Strict definition is - architecture that heavily features bare concrete (name is from the French 'beton brut', which means exactly that).
forResearchPurposesOnly
Typically minimal surfaces like cement and steel with emphasis on exposed structural elements. Raw and honest.
DavidBrooker
Brutalism is an architectural style typified by its use of plain, unfinished concrete: a celebration of the mundane materials of 1/n
DavidBrooker
construction over hiding them with facade. However, it has also become associated with concrete buildings absent of ornamentation, 2/n
DavidBrooker
regardless of the philosophical or artistic purpose thereof, such as state housing in the Soviet Union. Brutalism reached its peak in 3/n
DavidBrooker
the 70s and maybe 80s, such that many such buildings are reaching half a century old. Plain concrete requires a lot of maintenance, and 4/n
DavidBrooker
because many brutalist buildings were civic structures, it's also associated with decaying structures suffering deferred maintenance. 5/5
MostlyDinosaurs
AndromedaBlade
Space, but its been gutted.
DarthTronz
Power ranger HQ
CoolestV
Arrakis
babycarrottforscale
Westworld
hymenochirus
Apparently I’m wrong, it’s Bulgaria.
lindalakstigala360
https://www.exutopia.com/buzludzha-memorial-house-bulgaria/
smittyatyou
Planet reach
hymenochirus
It was either Kazakhstan or Azerbaijan, I can’t remember which.
Wiesel2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzludzha_monument
KaptainObveeus
Thanks! Did nobody ever take any pictures in it's heyday?
elnahir
Check this out: https://perito-burrito.com/posts/buzludza
KaptainObveeus
Wow it did look awesome. Thanks!
haadyy
The mother ship that will hopefully rid Bulgaria of Putin's buttholelickers...
callocosplay
That's my secret evil villain lair... You're not some super hero are you?
AndreB86
There is a church in Wisconsin that looks like this....
IHaveNoEyeDeer
You mean the Gobbler restaurant? I thought that closed in 1995
AndreB86
Mt Pleasant Lutheran Church
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DTNenRQHFoUXMxtE8
RICHARDJOKES
reminds me of one oc the temples in morrowind. wild.
GeForcen
Jason Statham goes here in The Mechanic 2 for one of his targets. I thought it was a pretty cool looking building.
milskiCatDiver
Except the real one is in a mountain, 100 miles away from the sea.
ilovedogknots
I dunno why people say they don’t like brutalisim I think it’s friggin sweet
MyDudebroman
Some of the designs remind me of what a prison looks like, but some are very interesting as well.
10wreckedtenrecs
I’m with you. So chunky, so concrete, I can’t even really articulate what is good about it but it’s good none the less.
WeaponizedJerk
It’s almost like everyone forms their own opinions or something.
Ismellofhockey
Because you're looking at the good side of brutalism. But its ugly side is, well, brutal.
dingofdong
But then that's true of any architectural style or movement, *especially* ones which ended up being used for so many cheapskate poorly +
dingofdong
+ thought out projects in the 60s and 70s. I'm not sure it really matters what architectural style you choose, if you ask an architect to +
dingofdong
+ design a housing block capable of containing a thousand people but give them a budget of approximately 40p and half a shoestring then +
dingofdong
+ you're hardly going to get a masterstroke of artistic vision. Imho a large amount of the criticism that gets levelled at brutalism as +