My home town of Montreal is a brutalist's dream. A lot of stuff was built during that period (maybe we have a big concrete lobby? Hahah). I've come to accept is as part of my every day life and don't even notice it so much. Here's a couple off the top of my head. Built for the 67 expo in Montreal: My parents wanted to rent a place there but ceilings are crazy low and rooms very small with little to no windows because of the constraints of the cubic design. Big Uglyness: My metro station (it has like 30 meters ceilings, it looks grandiose): My university a couple years ago: They fixed it a bit:
I love brutalist architecture. Maybe it's where I grew up and how old I am, but there is something comforting and "normal" about it to me.
I love brutalist architecture. Maybe it's where I grew up and how old I am, but there is something comforting and "normal" about it to me.
Can't remember if this was ever posted on Hubski, but it would be fun to have a Brutalist skin option:
Raw concrete never really left. And there's been some nice recent of examples of the new plastic form: Preston Scott Cohen, Tel Aviv Musuem of Art Tadao Ando, School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of Monterrey, Mexico
Shared and hated on. Yeah, fuckin' hideous. Brutalism is modernism with the humanity sucked out. That's why humans hate it, but certain antisocial architects think it's the shit.THERE’S NO QUESTION that Brutalism looks exceedingly cool.
But as a dreary stroll down Park Avenue will remind you, Modernism swiftly became a gutless orthodoxy, its high ideals devolving into the rote features of the International Style, a repetitive and predictable series of gestures (curtain walls or ribbon windows, recessed plinths, decorative piloti, windswept plazas, ornamental lawns and flat shimmering pools)
