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PARIS — Brutalist architecture, or brutalism, is an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s, when major post-War ...
President Trump wants to ditch concrete monstrosities like the FBI building that uglify Washington DC — and federal agencies ...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers its first public peek inside the new David Geffen Galleries building, whose vast ...
A new exhibition on Prague’s Rašín Embankment showcases the bold embassy architecture of 1960s–70s Czechoslovakia and its ...
Yet that fearsome word, "brutalist," is part of the punch of the 3½-hour (not counting intermission) movie epic — starring Adrien Brody (a Best Actor nominee) as an émigré Hungarian architect ...
A brutal end for one of Raleigh’s best-known brutalist buildings. Richard Stradling. Wed, April 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM UTC. 2 min read.
But the English associations of the word "brutal" give "brutalist" architecture a forbidding sound. Imagine a brutalist building, and you imagine something harsh, cruel, barbaric. A not-nice building.
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 ...
The Bath Building — a mysterious, many say ugly, white cube near North Carolina’s Legislative Building in downtown Raleigh — is coming down. Contractors have begun ripping off the concrete ...