What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[BrumJim]

It was a battle….he lived there a year, & I think survived mostly on veg pizzas & a vege Taco Lyonnais - the French love their meat, & Lyon prides itself on it!

Le Limonade Marionette was good enough to visit twice….
Another spot looks to now be permanently closed (it was a few years ago).

Pizzas and Chinese restaurants are always a good bet. My wife talks about finding a Chinese restaurant in France to get vegetarian food. Having spent a little time in Hong Kong, she was happy to order in Chinese, but the person behind the desk could only speak French. Had to get help from the chef out the back.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Durham Uni SU

Very nearly got demolished until it was grade II listed a couple of years back. Visited when the mrs was studying there, some great buildings, and the cathedral, wow!

 

[All uphill]

This BBC story reminded me of this building, literally a couple of miles from where I now live, & indeed where I spent my first 8 proper adult working years - Leicestershire County Council!
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Proper brutalist, build mid-60s: many happy days there in my younger days!
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Here was an original plan:

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So much optimism back then!

 

[Grant Fondo]

Not that brutal i guess? Always liked it because my old boss designed it whilst at Seifert architects, he was a lovely bloke.
Not far from Covent Garden in London.

 

[Grant Fondo]

St Cross Library, Oxford

A really elegant building, mind you Oxford's got some of the best 60's buildings in the country.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Saw this in Tbilisi - weird.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Saw this building. It reminds me of a dalek.

 

[Grant Fondo]

In this months Architecture Today, Boston Government Center 1971, proper brutal but I like it.

 

[MikeG]

That Durham Uni building is in a terrible state. There is rust showing though all over the place from the reinforcement. I got a look at it when my daughter was studying there, and my opinion hasn't changed. It should never have been listed, and the world would be better off without it.

 

[PeteXXX]

Also posted in the 'Church' thread but I think it fits in well here, too..
The Elim Church, Hamtun.

 

[Yellow Fang]

This is a weird building. There are some offices in there somewhere. I am not sure what the large, concrete cooling fins are for.

 

[slow horse]

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I am not sure what the large, concrete cooling fins are for.

Cooling the passions of architectural critics?

United National Movement Headquarters
United National Movement government focused on urban transformations after the rise to power, which demonstrates how architecture served as a tool for selectively rewriting Georgia’s contemporary “European identity”. Its headquarters, a clear demonstration of the importance they place on architecture are situated in Tbilisi, Georgia and its unique architecture and concrete blades are something to behold.

 

[Yellow Fang]

C

Cooling the passions of architectural critics?

How did you find that out?

 

[slow horse]

How did you find that out?

Image search which led to FaceBorg

 

[Profpointy]

Not sure this quite counts as brutalist but Coventry Cathedral is magnificent, particularly inside. The acoustics are
fabulous too, as when we were
there their organist was playing unlike in most churches it was incredibly clear despite the music's modern complexity