What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[Blue Hills]

Being constructed of concrete in any old vernacular style doesn't make it a brutalist building.....

see above - I essentially agreed - was following on from the diversion into concrete houses, and then just quoting Ian of Ian Visits, who I recommend as a london guide.
The Pantheon, built by the Romans two millenia ago, also uses concrete of course.

 

[Profpointy]

see above - I essentially agreed - was following on from the diversion into concrete houses, and then just quoting Ian of Ian Visits, who I recommend as a london guide.
The Pantheon, built by the Romans two millenia ago, also uses concrete of course.

But apart from that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

 

[Fab Foodie]

But apart from that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Abromovich bought Chelsea IIRC....

 

[GuyBoden]

The Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool.

 

[bagpuss]

Recycling plant in Austria. Wien
IMG_2276 by rebalrid, on Flickr
Not sure now what this was
IMG_2333 by rebalrid, on Flickr

 

[The Crofted Crest]

Recycling plant in Austria. Wien
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Is that not inspired by the (anything but brutalist) Hundertwassser house? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasserhaus?wprov=sfla1

 

[bagpuss]

Seen in Boston USA some years ago.

IMG_2840 by rebalrid, on Flickr

 

[bagpuss]

Derbys Assembly rooms has alway had a love it or hate view in the city. Soon to be demloished following a plant room roof fire a few years ago.

 

[matticus]

Do I not like that:

chuvash state opera and ballet theatre

 

[Grant Fondo]

Probably my favourite brutalist building. Canova Museum in northern Italy. No photo does it justice, just a beautiful space to be in.

 

[dan_bo]

Hexagon tower, Blackley, Manchester. On a rarish sunny day.

 

[Grant Fondo]

The grand daddy of them all? Designed in 1945 .... Le Corbusier, Marseille

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Hexagon tower, Blackley, Manchester. On a rarish sunny day.

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Big brother of this little fella: https://travelwithintent.com/2013/09/17/toast-rack-and-fried-egg-manchester-fallowfield/

 

[dan_bo]

Big brother of this little fella: https://travelwithintent.com/2013/09/17/toast-rack-and-fried-egg-manchester-fallowfield/

Ah see! Never knew they was related

 

[Grant Fondo]

Big brother of this little fella: https://travelwithintent.com/2013/09/17/toast-rack-and-fried-egg-manchester-fallowfield/

I tried for a job renovating it a few years back, didn't get it, but did the new garden centre in Worsley instead which was fun.