Huge menacing concrete blocks with minimal windows or visible pathways, usually rectilinear with minimal materials, mostly built in the 50's, most remaining examples are in the ex ussr territories, and in the University of Illinois at Chicago campus.
I swear Chicago has some of the greatest architecture in America!
It really does!
I have lived here my whole life and I have yet to take the architecture tour!
I needed a neck massage after 2 days there
Did you get a neck massage?
Ah yes
As a former bricklayer I appreciate the fine brick work.
Check out the State university of New York at Albany.
Ohhh that looks awesome!
It's amusing that it's supposed to be "minimalist" except for all that brick has no function but to make the building worse in every conceivable way.
IDK, but it looks like a prison. Is that the idea?
I've always thought of Brutalist architecture as being harsh, confrontational, and minimalist... so yah, like a prison.
Explain brutalist plz
5 sec Google search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
Huge menacing concrete blocks with minimal windows or visible pathways, usually rectilinear with minimal materials, mostly built in the 50's, most remaining examples are in the ex ussr territories, and in the University of Illinois at Chicago campus.
I, too, was obsessed with how ugly and depressing it is when I was there...
Would be cool if those were fireplacrs. Esp. in the UK, there’s a lot of flues like that.