What's Your Opinion of Brutalist Architecture?

[Hannoura Az-Zengi]

It's neat and can look elegant but its mainly grey and not colourful at all.
IF you want to use it as a town hall make it pleasing for the townspeople. SImple psychology.

[Transsibiria]

I would consider and define it as absolutely brutal.

[Laka Strolistandiler]

It’s ugly, it’s not cheaper than not building shitty blocks of concrete, and it serves essentially no purpose. Into the trash, alongside Zaha Hadid-ish abominations it goes!

[Lesbias]

It's very practical, it allows you to build good, quality, low-income housing and a lot of it which is obviously nice, but other than that I don't see a reason to use it. If you want to make a city hall or something else of the sort then I don't understand why you'd use it. It's ugly, bland, depressing, and the amount of grey they use makes me want to cry.

In short good for housing, anything else idk why'd you use it.

[Huaren Gongsi state]

I went to Surabaya (Indonesia) to visit a relative and I saw this brutalist-esque building, pretty cool.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paulrudolph.institute%2F199407-surabaya-office-building&psig=AOvVaw37lNJMCxV-e2LhgfbLxuGF&ust=1675994845021000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCKjD9Lyth_0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAR

[Maineiacs]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall
Here is a prime example of why I hate this style of Architecture.

Boston city hall is one of the ugliest buildings i've ever seen and definitely the ugliest government building.

I wasn't aware that Boston had its own Ministry of Love.

[San Lumen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall
Here is a prime example of why I hate this style of Architecture.

Boston city hall is one of the ugliest buildings i've ever seen and definitely the ugliest government building.

I wasn't aware that Boston had its own Ministry of Love.

well thats a comparison i've never heard before.

[Mountains and Volcanoes]

I went to Surabaya (Indonesia) to visit a relative and I saw this brutalist-esque building, pretty cool: Surabaya Building

Him?

[Tsarus 2142]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall
Here is a prime example of why I hate this style of Architecture.

Boston city hall is one of the ugliest buildings i've ever seen and definitely the ugliest government building.

there is this very obvious beauty in its hideousness. the long arrays like some kind of sci fi horror depiction, rows of cells, it's quiet authority. you go in feeling like you're about to be taken away and you leave feeling detest towards the tyrant dogs inside of the building. brutalism is hideous but you can't say it's dishonest.

[Mountains and Volcanoes]

Boston city hall is one of the ugliest buildings i've ever seen and definitely the ugliest government building. Here is a prime example of why I hate this style of Architecture.

It looks like a prison!

[Indecent Anime Empire]

I think it fits in well with graveyards and serious toned structures but not a daycare.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Boston city hall is one of the ugliest buildings i've ever seen and definitely the ugliest government building. Here is a prime example of why I hate this style of Architecture.

It looks like a prison!

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

[Portzania]

It looks like a prison!

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

That is depressing

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

It looks like a prison!

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

it'd be greatly improved if the wall was removed and the building was better kept.

[Bewaffnete Krafte]

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

it'd be greatly improved if the wall was removed and the building was better kept.

Concrete doesn't withstand water well at all. That's why that's even there. It doesn't take long for the building to look moldy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall
Here is a prime example of why I hate this style of Architecture.

Boston city hall is one of the ugliest buildings i've ever seen and definitely the ugliest government building.

there is this very obvious beauty in its hideousness. the long arrays like some kind of sci fi horror depiction, rows of cells, it's quiet authority. you go in feeling like you're about to be taken away and you leave feeling detest towards the tyrant dogs inside of the building. brutalism is hideous but you can't say it's dishonest.

Actually you very much can. The Boston City hall isn't some tyrannical force dictating every aspect of your life. It might be honest if it was for, like, state or national government buildings, but I find it quite hard to say city halls and city governments are some imposing, powerful force to the level of tyranny. I've never lived in a big city, though, so maybe it's different there.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

it'd be greatly improved if the wall was removed and the building was better kept.

it'd be greatly improved if it was blown up and replaced with stuff like that.

[Ifreann]

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

it'd be greatly improved if the wall was removed and the building was better kept.

They need the wall to keep the Romans out.

[Lesbias]

It looks like a prison!

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

It's Britain, it's basically a prison in the first place.

[Mountains and Volcanoes]

It looks like a prison!

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

Oh... god. It actually look like a internment camp! God. Help us!

[-Astoria-]

It looks like a prison!

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

Just needs a dash of upkeep and paint, that's all.

it'd be greatly improved if the wall was removed and the building was better kept.

it'd be greatly improved if it was blown up and replaced with stuff like that.

Ah yes, apartment buildings: the cutting-edge in diplomatic architecture.

[Hurdergaryp]

Could be worse... could be the British Embassy in Rome. Which actually do look like a prison.

It's Britain, it's basically a prison in the first place.

That would explain why that building reminds me of the Tower in London.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

It's Britain, it's basically a prison in the first place.

That would explain why that building reminds me of the Tower in London.

Tower of London looks fit for purpose - the purpose of a fortress. The UK embassy in Rome looks like the Camp Commissar's headquarters for a gulag.

[Lesbias]

That would explain why that building reminds me of the Tower in London.

Tower of London looks fit for purpose - the purpose of a fortress. The UK embassy in Rome looks like the Camp Commissar's headquarters for a gulag.

So that's where they send the French.

[Hurdergaryp]

That would explain why that building reminds me of the Tower in London.

Tower of London looks fit for purpose - the purpose of a fortress. The UK embassy in Rome looks like the Camp Commissar's headquarters for a gulag.

Well, the Tower of London also was a rather infamous prison, and that embassy also has distinct fortress-like features.

[Techocracy101010]

properly made brutalist buildings are string and make good fortified positions so i like them