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  • Welcome to Dezeen's Brutalism season

    Brutalism: explore all of the articles in our season dedicated to Brutalism, one of the 20th century's most controversial architecture movements. More

    Anna Winston | 16 October 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Brutalist buildings: National Theatre, London by Denys Lasdun

    Brutalism: Denys Lasdun's National Theatre – one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist buildings – is a layered concrete landscape that Prince Charles once described as being like "a nuclear power station". More

    Olivia Mull | 6 October 2014 | 5 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago by Bertrand Goldberg & Associates

    Brutalism: the design for the clover-shaped tower of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago was enabled by the pioneering application of one of the earliest three-dimensional modelling programmes. With its curving form, Goldberg made a clear break away from the grid formations favoured in Modernist architecture. More

    Jessica Mairs | 2 October 2014 | 5 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Yale Art and Architecture Building, Connecticut by Paul Rudolph

    Brutalism: one of the earliest known examples of Brutalist architecture in America is Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building in New Haven, Connecticut, an imposing, fortress-like building that juxtaposes masses of textured concrete with layers of steel-framed glazing. More

    Jessica Mairs | 26 September 2014 | 8 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Balfron Tower, London by Ernö Goldfinger

    Brutalism: a 27-storey slab block is next up in our Brutalist buildings series. As the precursor to the larger and more famous Trellick Tower, Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower in east London was a testbed for the architect's utopian housing ideals (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 24 September 2014 | 28 comments
  • Architects pick their favourite Brutalist buildings

    Brutalism: as part of our ongoing series on Brutalism, we asked architects including Kengo Kuma, David Adjaye and Amanda Levete to reveal their favourite buildings from the radical post-war movement. More

    Anna Winston | 19 September 2014 | 14 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Pilgrimage Church, Neviges by Gottfried Böhm

    Brutalism: one of the most revered religious buildings of the Brutalist period is Gottfried Böhm's Church of the Pilgrimage in Neviges, the crystalline structure that abandoned traditional Catholic architecture in favour of sharp angles and rough concrete (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 17 September 2014 | 6 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Unité d'Habitation, Marseille by Le Corbusier

    Brutalism: Le Corbusier's first Unité d'Habitation is arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time. With its human proportions, chunky pilotis and interior "streets", it redefined high-density housing by reimagining a city inside an 18-storey slab block. More

    Amy Frearson | 15 September 2014 | 16 comments
  • "There was good brutalism and bad, but even the bad was done in earnest"

    Brutalism: challenging, idealistic and serious – Brutalism is architecture for grown ups, says Jonathan Meades. More

    Jonathan Meades | 15 September 2014 | 8 comments
  • 11 lesser-known Brutalist buildings that helped define the movement

    Brutalism: as part of our series on Brutalism Dezeen invited Michael Abrahamson, editor of the F*ck Yeah Brutalism blog, to choose his favourite buildings. More

    Michael Abrahamson | 14 September 2014 | 9 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Trinity Square car park by Owen Luder

    Brutalism: the seven-storey Trinity Square car park in Gateshead, England, was designed by Owen Luder and is the first ill-fated building in our Brutalism series (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 14 September 2014 | 6 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Barbican Estate by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

    Brutalism: described by Queen Elizabeth as "one of the modern wonders of the world", the Barbican Estate in London is one of the largest examples of the Brutalist style and represents a utopian ideal for inner-city living. More

    Amy Frearson | 13 September 2014 | 15 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Preston Bus Station by Building Design Partnership

    Brutalism: four rows of sculptural concrete fins make up the brazenly brutalist facade of Preston Bus Station in Lancashire, England – the next project in Dezeen's series. More

    Amy Frearson | 12 September 2014 | 1 comment
  • Brutalist buildings: Habitat 67, Montreal by Moshe Safdie

    Brutalism: next up in our series on Brutalist architecture is Habitat 67, the experimental modular housing presented by Moshe Safdie at the 1967 World Expo in Montreal as a vision for the future of cities (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 11 September 2014 | 16 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Park Hill, Sheffield by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith

    Brutalism: to kick off a series of building studies looking back at classic Brutalist buildings from around the world, we revisit Park Hill – the housing estate that brought "streets in the sky" to Sheffield, England, after the Second World War. More

    Amy Frearson | 10 September 2014 | 8 comments
  • The Dezeen guide to Brutalist architecture

    Brutalism: one of the 20th century's most controversial architecture movements is back in vogue with design fans as nostalgia mixes with a new-found respect for its socialist principals. In our new series, Dezeen will be revisiting some of the key projects from the Brutalist period, but first here's a short introduction from the Royal Academy's Owen Hopkins. More

    Owen Hopkins | 10 September 2014 | 17 comments

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