Its raw concrete exterior, modular design and cavernous interior spaces contrast starkly with the historic brick buildings surrounding it. Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall ...

It amounted to a viral reaction against the tidy reductionism of modernism’s own glass-walled box. Many of America’s brutalist buildings now present a choice between expensive renovation and ...

Adrien Brody's Oscar-winning movie embodies an architectural movement that embraces the raw and the unadorned. And at the movie’s centre is the second most consumed substance on earth—concrete ...

It is, we are supposed to understand, a brutalist building (hence the title). It is not. The building we see taking form (and in the shape of a huge model being lifted in to a presentation ...

Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war. The F.B.I. headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building ...

To some observers, the buildings appear coarse, intimidating and unapproachable, recalling bunkers. Adrien Brody (center) stars in the 2024 film 'The Brutalist,' directed by Brady Corbet Image ...

Brutalism is the techno music of architecture, stark and menacing. Brutalist buildings are expensive to maintain and difficult to destroy. They can't be easily remodeled or changed, so they tend ...

Telling the story of architect Lazlo Toth from his days in Europe to his new life in America, “The Brutalist” sends a ...

The General Services Administration’s briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed in the brutalist style characteristic of many local federal structures.

Right from the get-go, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist sets itself up as an epic ... draws dizzying links between the materiality of building elements and the scar tissue generated by displacement.

Generations of buildings have been raised, then razed, during the slow and constant process of urban development. More than five decades after their heyday, the brutalist buildings of North ...