Brutalism is the term coined to describe the raw architecture often made with concrete during the 1950s and 1960s.

They don’t fit into the streets and city centers where they appear but their strength and power speak of a time when people had seen architecture as a force for civic good. These structures were solid spaces to create a solid and strong world emerging from the gloom of WW2.

These buildings are evidence of a modernism, a time when we didn’t dress up architecture but left it cold and honest for all to see.

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