What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[Gravity Aided]

[QUOTE 3511786, member: 9609"]Architects do some rather odd things, we have a house with a good open aspect facing directly south - it was built (2002) with patio doors and patio on the north side, (i reckon it sees the sun on a handful of days in june at 5am)[/QUOTE]
Auld family home the same, patio on north side. Well adapted to this climate. There were also trees shading it as well.

 

[User169]

Here's an interesting one.

Ministry of Finance in Den Haag as it was..

And as it is now..

 

[User169]

Cracking foreground subject!

Le Meades musing on brutalisme..

"The dependably crass Prince of Wales, the man who sullied Dorset with Poundbury, described the Tricorn as "a mildewed lump of elephant droppings", a simile as vulgar as it is visually inept."

 

[pplpilot]

Quite like brutalist.

From my home town , about to be demolished.

Birmingham central library

 

[accountantpete]

Can't find a picture worthy of this beast but here is Wrexham Police Station.

 

[palinurus]

I'm from Preston and lived there when it was built. Functionally it was and is a complete disaster area.

Only official pedestrian accesss is via underpasses that have always been muggers and druggies heavens and permenantly smell of piss ... as a result far too many people have been killed walking across the bus access areas.

Pedestrian access is pretty poor to the bus station in general. This really needs some work.

 

[Cheddar George]

You know, sometimes concrete brutalism just isn't enough and you need to add something else to create the right atmosphere.

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...e-launcher-history-now-hayward-gallery-london

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Just remembered this 1950s beauty in Milan, saw it when we were on hols last year, it's called Torre Velasca and it's kinda cool.

 

[Chromatic]

Here's my contribution to the things on the roof theme, sorry the underlying building is not a brutalist monstrosity.

 

[Tim Hall]

Here in Sussex we had a similar great idea, softer and more stylish though.

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Eddie Izzard put up a wodge of cash for that. There was some blurb from him when it was there:

By the end of 2012 I would hope that the word goes out from our country that not only do we run excellent world events, but also we balance coaches on the edges of buildings like no one else ever could”

 

[robjh]

A corker from (West) Berlin. What do you do if a massive WW2 air-raid bunker stands in your way? Why, you just build your flats over and around it.

Honestly not my favourite example, but I was so struck by it that I had to jump off the bus and go and look.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

The Roger Stevens Building at Leeds Uni

 

[Booyaa]

Central Library in Brum is one of my favourites. Shame it is being knocked down. The National Theatre is also lovely and very complex when you go around it.

 

[ThinAir]

This... Swinton...Salford...

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Birmingham Central Library should be protected IMHO.

Not exactly brutalist, but certainly concrete, here are three of my favourites:

The Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa, in Tokyo (now demolished):

Inside:

The also demolished Sofitel in Ueno by Kiyonori Kikutake, also in Tokyo...

And finally the Habitat 67 apartments in Montreal, by Moshe Safdie