
Diamond Schmitt swaps concrete for glass at brutalist arts centre in Ottawa
Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects has overhauled and expanded Ottawa's brutalist National Arts Centre, cladding it in glass to create a light-filled interior. More
Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects has overhauled and expanded Ottawa's brutalist National Arts Centre, cladding it in glass to create a light-filled interior. More
Demolition of a housing project, designed by late American architect Paul Rudolph in the 1970s, has been blocked in its final stage because a resident has refused to move off the premises. More
Some of the world's best known brutalist buildings have been turned into wallpaper designs, including a London car park that is threatened with demolition and Rio de Janeiro's Mayan-inspired cathedral. More
This exclusive video footage shot by Dezeen shows a huge section of the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens estate being torn apart by a demolition claw. More
One of Sydney's finest examples of brutalist architecture has been put on sale for £75 million by the New South Wales government, despite new evidence that shows the building may already be heritage listed. More
The V&A museum has salvaged a three-storey section of Robin Hood Gardens, the much-debated brutalist social housing estate by Alison and Peter Smithson that is currently being demolished in east London. More
Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. More
Francisco Sutherland Architects has slotted a timber structure containing a bathroom, mezzanine and wardrobes into a triplex apartment in London's brutalist Barbican Estate. More
Despite years of campaigning from architects and heritage bodies, demolition is now underway on Robin Hood Gardens, the post-war housing estate in east London designed by exponents of new brutalism, Alison and Peter Smithson. More
Simon Smithson, the son of the architects behind the soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens, has attacked politicians for tampering with the heritage-listing system, to erase prime examples of the UK's post-war architecture. More
One of Sydney's only examples of brutalist architecture has been given a second chance, after a court ruled against the government decision not to heritage list it. More
US firm Woodhouse Tinucci Architects has spruced up a reading room in the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library, a 1970s building originally designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. More
Located in a brutalist former bank headquarters in Stockholm, Universal Design Studio's latest project, the At Six hotel, is home to one of Europe's most significant hotel art collections. More
Dezeen is giving five readers the chance to win a copy of Residents: Inside the Iconic Barbican Estate, which features photographs of apartments inside the brutalist complex. More
Spanish designer Marta Colmenero has created a set of illustrations that capture the concrete forms of brutalist architecture across the globe. More
Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has envisioned a Tetris-like extension to the demolition-threatened Sirius building in Sydney, which bears a resemblance to Moshe Safdie's iconic Habitat 67 housing. More
Tel Aviv architect Asaf Lerman has renovated a library building designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Israel's Haifa University, and added a new wing to complement its brutalist concrete and glass construction. More
Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Prestel to give away five copies of a book about London's brutalist architecture, featuring nine pull-out 3D models. More
Emulsion has transformed a triplex apartment in London's iconic Barbican Estate with a new mezzanine floor and a colour palette inspired by Le Corbusier. More
Dezeen has teamed up with Blue Crow Media to give away five copies of a map detailing 40 examples of brutalist architecture in Washington DC. More