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I'm not really feeling up to a lengthy introduction, so here's pics:




anybody have some beautiful photos of these giant naked blocks of faceless concrete?

i wish every city had a whole district of these in it. when the sun hits them it's magical, it's like 1970 reappearing out of nowhere.

I'm at Brunel University here in the UK. The campus was used as a filming location in Clockwork Orange, pretty good example of it. Should get some pics of my own actually.





http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attac ... 1161392771

Can't ge the last one to show for some reason so you'll have to clicky

Vordhosbn wrote:watch this to experience Brutalist architecture to its fullest

that's totally what inspired this thread...hahaha!

turquoise70 wrote:

Vordhosbn wrote:watch this to experience Brutalist architecture to its fullest

that's totally what inspired this thread...hahaha!

I think I remember someone on watmm making this. Great stuff, I'm a huge fan of brutalist architecture.

I used to live in a brutalist-styled condominium as a toddler in Alexandria, Virginia.

Damn, it was soooo early-nineties.

i don't know if this is considered brutalist architecture, but it's a complex at my university. i think it's pretty cool.

I need to visit Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton someday. If I ever get dual citizenship, I'm seriously thinking of settling in one of those cities.

aiming high

silo flame wrote:aiming high

this is where i go to school:








photos are kind of small and crappy. but its a really cool place, maybe ill take some of my own photos

Joebot Kill wrote:this is where i go to school:








photos are kind of small and crappy. but its a really cool place, maybe ill take some of my own photos

That is awesome!! Wish my school looked like that. would've been a better high for sure.

747Music wrote:

Joebot Kill wrote:this is where i go to school:








photos are kind of small and crappy. but its a really cool place, maybe ill take some of my own photos

That is awesome!! Wish my school looked like that. would've been a better high for sure.

its a great place to trip too. feels like space ship ruins!

my favorite building on campus! unfortunately this is an old photo and now there's no park surrounding it, it's all parking lot and new buildings and more parking lot.

http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/uni ... (n.d.).jpg

http://instagr.am/p/V1MA/

http://instagr.am/p/fCWi/ (not so much brutalist as uber-functional)

http://instagr.am/p/_Z6Y/

I don't know why but looking at this kind of architecture hits an unusual nostalgic chord in me. I think it's memories of going downtown and looking up at the facinating buildings as a kid.

Must be some influence from the constructivists on this type of architecture

A_Northern_Soul wrote:http://instagr.am/p/V1MA/

http://instagr.am/p/fCWi/ (not so much brutalist as uber-functional)

http://instagr.am/p/_Z6Y/

that is one COOL app! There's no android equivalent by any chance, do you know?

Twoism-ist wrote:

A_Northern_Soul wrote:http://instagr.am/p/V1MA/

http://instagr.am/p/fCWi/ (not so much brutalist as uber-functional)

http://instagr.am/p/_Z6Y/

that is one COOL app! There's no android equivalent by any chance, do you know?

the closest thing i've found is an app called 'fx camera'.

Brutalism has some rich associations for me, too.

For some reason it makes me think of government bureaucracies (kind of understandable, since brutalism was most popular at a time of intense government expansion) and also educational and psychological testing (?). I imagine all sorts of people sitting in brutalist office buildings being evaluated by official agencies.