What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[PeteXXX]

That's fantastic! Is it really curved or is that just photographic distortion? It reminds me of the wonderful lighthouses on the French Atlantic coast.
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If this helps, yes, it it is curved...

 

[Profpointy]

The Verdun Ossuary . A beautiful building and very moving to visit. A sombre memorial to the 130000 fallen from both sides whose bones are interred within it, quite apart from further 100000 in various other cemeteries nearby. The graves directly outside stretch as far as the eye can see.


Maybe not "brutalist", but more "Totalitarian Art Deco" but a great piece of architecture - fitting its purpose perfectly

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Snapped this beauty in Newcastle city centre yesterday, it's a huge grid-like slab on three huge concrete blocks, marvellous..,

It's like being in North Korea. But with better food and beer. And without a useless fat git in control, oh hang on..,

 

[Piemaster]

I give you the Rio de Janerio Cathederal

Not my picture - I was being driven past it and slow with the camera.
Note some of the other beauties in the background. There are lots and lots of them.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

The Grauniad have this on their site today. Late to the party but welcome nonetheless.

 

[Gravity Aided]

No criticism of your photography intended, GA. Even if it doesn't swell towards the top, it's a blooming horrible building. A bit like an airport control tower on steroids.

Wait! It gets better. Or worse, I suppose. I'll try and get more pictures when it's finished. I ride over by there on my commute each night.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I give you the Rio de Janerio Cathederal

Not my picture - I was being driven past it and slow with the camera.
Note some of the other beauties in the background. There are lots and lots of them.

Ministry of Truth?
Prettiest building in Airstrip One.

 

[Piemaster]

Ministry of Truth?
Prettiest building in Airstrip One.

It's not the only conical Cathedral either - Cathederal of Brasilia.
Brasilia does seem to have used a lot of concrete, though that doesn't make it brutalist though.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Or, as my Father said, when first he saw it,
"Very nice barn, but where is the church?"

Actually my own parish church, well designed interior and quite practical. Dramatic stained glass teaching windows. Circa 1950's.

 

[slowmotion]

Or, as my Father said, when first he saw it,
"Very nice barn, but where is the church?"

Actually my own parish church, well designed interior and quite practical. Dramatic stained glass teaching windows. Circa 1950's.

That's a pretty building and a good photo.

 

[Gravity Aided]

That's a pretty building and a good photo.

A bit brutal to my taste, but I grew up with an old wooden church with painted interior and 1870's decoration.
This churches' modern interior is softened by still having the original 1870's pews mounted in the new church in the 1950's, and having older style stations of the cross, and original marble church altar as an altar in the side chapel.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

It's not the only conical Cathedral either - Cathederal of Brasilia.
Brasilia does seem to have used a lot of concrete, though that doesn't make it brutalist though.

You can find a few of my snaps of Brasilia here on my old blog:

https://ubisurv.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/brazilian-modernism-2/

 

[Gravity Aided]

The finished product, Hyatt, not a Hilton, still quite brutal, but a little softer with the panels.

Red brick, as required by city code for the business district and Main Corridor.

 

[PeteXXX]

Heard this on Sky News this morning, in praise of Brutalist architecture.

~National Trust Brutalist tours~

 

[Drago]

Osaka Castle.