25 buildings from the architectural era of brutalism (26 photos)

2 February 2023

Brutalism is an architectural style in which preference given to bare building materials and structural elements, and not decorative design. It is usually associated with rude, raw surfaces, unusual shapes and brutal external view today.





1. Torres Blancas building in Madrid. Architect: Francisco Javier Saenz de Oisa, 1961



2. Building Elyon-Hitchins, North Carolina, USA. Architect Paul Rudolph, 1972 Demolished 2021





3. Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Chuvash Republic (architectural style - Soviet modernism, raised on the basis of brutalism)



4. Bank of London and South America headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1966



5. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Denis Lasdan, 1970



6 Ponte Tower (Ponte City Apartments), Johannesburg, South Africa, 1975 Manfred Hermer, Manny Feldman, Rodney Grosskopf



7. Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada



8. Churchill College, Cambridge, UK



9. Secretariat Building, Chandigarh, India, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site



10. Lichfield Towers, USA



11. Boston College of Architecture, USA



12. Llewellyn Hall, Canberra, Australia



13. Office building, Singapore



14. Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco, 1973



15. MacMillan Bloedel building, Vancouver. Arthur Erickson, 1965



16. Dunelm House - Durham, UK, completed 1966



17. Lupton Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Building demolished in 2014



18. National Library of Argentina



19. Santa Catarina State Court (Brazil)



20. Houses on Brunnadernstraße, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Atelier 5 in 1970



21. Balfron Tower, London



22. Lester B. Pearson Building, Ottawa



23. Big Concert Hall of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Philharmonic



24. National Medical Research Center of Oncology. N. N. Blokhina, Moscow



25. Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. 1981

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