Restaurant and coffee bar open inside brutalist Met Breuer museum
The lower level of The Met Breuer museum in New York now houses a space for visitors to dine and drink in the surrounds of the brutalist-style building. More
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Unions ban construction workers from demolishing Sydney's brutalist Sirius building
Australian trade unions have banned construction workers from demolishing one of Sydney's only brutalist buildings, which failed in its bid for heritage listing earlier this summer. More
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Dezeen's latest Pinterest board celebrates iconic Brutalist architecture
We're revisiting the best examples of Brutalist architecture with a new Pinterest board this week, including Sydney's threatened Sirius apartment building and London's soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens.
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Cité Radieuse combines elements from many of Le Corbusier's previous designs
World Heritage Corb: Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille is one of French-Swiss architect's most recognised buildings, and is the last in our series exploring the 17 of his projects added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More
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Heritage listing denied for rare brutalist building in Sydney
New South Wales officials have rejected recommendations to heritage list the Sirius apartment building – leaving one of Sydney's only examples of brutalist architecture at risk of demolition. More
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Replacement housing revealed for London's doomed Robin Hood Gardens
Haworth Tompkins and Metropolitan Workshop have revealed their designs for housing that will replace London's historic Robin Hood Gardens estate by Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson. More
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Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel is one of the 20th century's most important buildings
World Heritage Corb: next up in our series on the 17 buildings by Le Corbusier that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is the architect's Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, the small chapel in Ronchamp, France, that has become one of his most iconic designs. More
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Maison de la Culture by Le Corbusier features an asymmetrically curved concrete roof
World Heritage Corb: next up in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings that have just been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list is the Maison de la Culture, a cultural centre in Firminy, France (+ slideshow). More
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Dramatically overhauled plans unveiled for Preston Bus Station
John Puttick Associates has significantly revised its designs for a new youth centre at Preston Bus Station, a transport hub in northern England that has become an icon of Brutalist architecture (+ slideshow). More
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Competition: win limited-edition Brutalist architecture poster and prints by Studio Esinam
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Studio Esinam to offer five readers the chance to win a limited-edition poster featuring Brutalist building elevations or one of four photography prints (+ slideshow). More
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Alastair Philip Wiper finds "noble failure" at Breuer's Modernist Flaine ski resort
Photo essay: why do some people hate the architecture of Flaine? To find out, photographer Alastair Philip Wiper travelled to the Marcel Breuer-designed Modernist ski resort in the French Alps often referred to as "phlegm". More
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Birth of brutalist Barbican Estate documented in Peter Bloomfield's construction photos
Photographer Peter Bloomfield spent four years behind-the-scenes on the construction site of London's Barbican Estate, documenting the iconic brutalist development as it "emerged from its chrysalis of scaffolding" (+ slideshow). More
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Quinn Architects renovates apartment in London's Brutalist Barbican Estate
London studio Quinn Architects has designed a minimal interior for this apartment in the city's Barbican Estate, pairing white lacquered surfaces with timber skirting and oak cabinets (+ slideshow). More
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Instagram users offer a sneak peek inside The Met's empty Breuer building
Instagram users have been posting images of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's empty Breuer building in New York, before the interiors are populated with art works for its opening next month. More
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Haworth Tompkins appointed to work on Robin Hood Gardens redevelopment
Stirling Prize winner Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to design some of the housing that will replace Robin Hood Gardens, the historic east-London estate by Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson. More
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Arndt Schlaudraff recreates Brutalist buildings in Lego for Instagram
Photo essay: Berliner Arndt Schlaudraff creates intricate Lego models of Brutalist and Modernist buildings, and photographs the results for his Instagram account lego_tonic (+ slideshow). More
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Demonising estates won't solve the UK's housing crisis, says heritage chief
The director of the UK's Twentieth Century Society has urged prime minister David Cameron to ditch plans to demolish post-war housing estates or risk an architectural "tragedy". More
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David Cameron pledges to demolish UK's "brutal" council estates
UK prime minister David Cameron has revealed plans to bulldoze or overhaul 100 so-called "sink estates", blaming their design for fostering crime and poverty. More
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Competition: five Brutalist London Maps to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with conservation group the Twentieth Century Society to offer five readers the chance to win a guide to London's Brutalist architecture. More
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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
