Brutalist Sandcastles By Calvin Seibert

Nov 22, 2025 7:11 PM

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Artist's Page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45648531@N00/

Wow. Those are so much better than you would even think they could be. Love em!

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We just had a sandcastle contest nearby @Pismo Bch, CA. Coincided with a King Tide that washed them all away. :((

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“Then, one day, my maker cast me in concrete and I laughed at you, Relentless Ocean”

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

GREAT work!

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#7 If Syndrome had a house.

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Sandcastles sure have changed

4 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

They're brilliant. Where was this?

4 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Not sure - maybe check out the artist’s Flickr for more information (linked above)

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#5 Brutal

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I love brutalism

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Reasonably sure that’s R‘lyeh

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That’s blursed not brutal. But well done…you get my upvote

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Now that's brutalism. I guess we've all been there.

4 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

... brutal

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Really brutal if they don’t flatten them out and they interfere with sea turtles

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Brutalist style.
The waves will reclaim the beach

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“The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws and attaining the most grotesque extremes of sinister bizarrerie.” Do you want Cthulhus? Because this is how you summon Cthulhus!

4 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

No blasphemous symmetry? No gambrel roofs?

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I know brutalism gets a bad wrap, but there's something about the simple geometric shapes pieced together that I just find really neat

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That's an aesthetic that's present in multiple architectural styles, but it's a specific and strict adherence to that, plus specific materials, and often (but not always) adherence to large scale that combines to create these cold cavernous spaces that aren't really conducive to human habitation. Good brutalist architecture exists, but it's extremely hard to do, and arrogant architects are gonna arrogant. Side note, Le Corbusier can suck a bag of dicks.

4 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's like Bauhaus, done well it is really cool but often was just an excuse to build cheap crap with no soul.

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Brutalism can be nice even as a residence. It's just tricky trying to implement it in a way that looks aesthetically pleasing if you aren't making it look like a traditional house.

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I think they are by human

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They are - I linked to a full page of his work on the top image.

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The top pic says "by the see"

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