What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[Yellow Fang]

Took this photo in Southampton. I think I had put the camera in room lighting mode, which made it come out a bit blue. I like it; it could make a good album cover, probably of a punk or new-wave band.

 

[User6179]

Cumbernauld Town Centre , I think it is a very interesting building if a bit Fugly .

 

[Dirk]

Favourite piece?
Absolutely none of it. Ghastly edifices foisted on us by a bunch
of 'up their own a**es' architects.
I would happily tear down every single example.

 

[Cuchilo]

Cumbernauld Town Centre , I think it is a very interesting building if a bit Fugly .

I like the fast access to the bookies !

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

What @Dirk Thrust said. ^^^

 

[vernon]

I'm voting for anything designed by @Archie_tect

Fight! fight! fight!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Gotta love them crazy Ruskies...

 

[Profpointy]

the Barbican centre - superb inside & out. I also have a soft spot the South Bank / National theatre thing. There are of course some truly horrible brutalist buildings, bit also some that are rather good. A regular failing was to make the buildings very hostile-seeming at street level,l. Not unique to brutalism but certainly a strong tendency - and arguably this well intentioned segregation of people from roads / cars made the people bit more hostile & lonely

PS for both converts and unconvinced I recomend the book Brutalism & and one simply titled "concrete"

 

[theclaud]

 

[slowmotion]

National Theatre, South Bank, London

I like it's neighbour....

EDIT AND GRAMMAR ALERT! There should have been no apostrophe in " it's" above. I shall wear a dunce's hat.

 

[theclaud]

Blimey, that's good - where is it?

There speaks a man who need to get out on an FNRttC. From which the view is more like this:

 

[glenn forger]

Most of it is total rubbish, including the horrible, ghastly South Bank centre. That said, Hitler's headquarters had Sealion paid off is quite funky:

 

[Dirk]

That's awful.

 

[Bollo]

Also in Southampton, I'm a fan of Wyndham Court.

 

[Glow worm]

Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Great views across Cardigan Bay from there too. Lovely.