How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world became highly covetable and intensely influential all over again.

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concrete-centric design movement associated with the post-war period. Below, we have selected different approaches to the brutalist kitchen, occupying newly built houses as well as apartments in ...

The main green’s sprawling Brutalist buildings have ... cannot be walked on due to broken concrete. (Rhode Island PBS) Outdoor staircases are also crumbling, and the concrete buildings are ...

The Cite Radieuse was just the beginning. Well into the 1970s, brutalist architecture dominated new construction worldwide. Concrete was affordable, and the unadorned forms meant a relatively ...

Grounded on a heavy, concrete base, the home feels at the same time light and sleek. Inspired by brutalist architecture and concrete structures, it features expert joinery and clean, minimalist ...