Boston City Hall, which was completed in 1968, is considered a classic example of Brutalist architecture. Yunghi Kim/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably ...
RALEIGH — Among the scores of buildings here, the city will soon lose its "ugliest." At least that’s the description some residents have bestowed, somewhat admiringly, upon the ill-fated Bath Building ...
Few architectural styles provoke as much debate as Brutalism. Once seen as stark and imposing, its unapologetic use of raw concrete and geometric forms is now experiencing a renaissance. Renewed ...
The Department of Housing and Urban and Development announced that it is leaving its headquarters in Washington for a space in northern Virginia. Getty Images There’s a reason God created dynamite.
In Providence, a small number of its Brutalist Buildings are still standing. Brutalism, a style of architecture popularized in the 1950s and 60s, is fading in many parts of the country. In Providence, ...
There’s a reason God created dynamite. The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s ...
Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...
At first look, traditional brutalist architecture doesn't feel like an easy fit with plants and nature. But this paradoxical relationship is part of the appeal, hence the buzz around the term ...
Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Built in 1967, the Orange County Government Center is absolutely gorgeous. Viewed from the south, it’s a ...
There’s a reason God created dynamite. The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s ...