Anza’s rerelease of a no-frills concrete espresso machine is only the latest fetishization of one of architecture’s most severe style. One could surmise that brutalism was born on a coffee high. But ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When an exposed concrete subway vault near the U.S. Capitol was painted white this spring, riders rejoiced at the brightened Washington Metro station. But some preservationists ...

On Monday, May 10, Denver City Council will vote on whether to give landmark status to the building at 123 Speer Boulevard, built decades ago to house Denver7. The owners want to sell the building – a ...

Federal buildings are often targets of criticism, but federal buildings designed in the Brutalist style seem to generate a particularly intense strain of invective. The J. Edgar Hoover Building (1975) ...

Brutalist architecture is present all around the country. The Boston Government Service Center, Phoenix Symphony Hall and the Hilton San Francisco Financial District are all examples. But there is ...

Depending on who you ask, brutalist buildings like the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., are little more than misshapen mounds of concrete. But architecture professor Mark Pasnik ...

For $100 million, Sotheby’s bought a masterpiece by Marcel Breuer, the former home of the Whitney Museum. It has a thoughtful ...

It’s a monument. It’s not meant to be ‘pretty,’” says Piers Daniell, cheerfully shrugging off criticism of the £7.5m, ...

Edward Durell Stone, unlike many other International and Mid-Century Modern architects, has seen a lag in recognition. Though he died in 1978, he has seen no revival in reputation as Eero Saarinen, ...

Brutalism, arguably the easiest architectural language with which to have a love-hate relationship, holds a particularly complex legacy across Africa – welcome to our guide to the continent’s ...