Brutalist/modern architecture

[Tee Kay]

there's brutalist and brutalist; it can be quite nice, or it can be really ugly

like here's a selection from Wikipedia, I have very different feelings towards each of them

subjective aesthetics aside, the more important thing is if it's good to live/work in. For example, if I have to live in an apartment, I want functioning lifts and plumbing, soundproofing, and a balcony, I don't really care what the building itself looks like.

And of course, ultimately, housing > no housing.

 

[Joij21]

Within a scope I’d say.

I'll take this as meaning explicitly brutalist.

Ok well it's good from a utilitarian perspective, probably not that great for a residential experience. Could be fine for some kind of laboratory, big pharma hq, or perhaps a big tech or high tech chip manufacturer's hq/r&d building. I however would prefer something that shows more metal rather than concrete for high tech industries, but concrete should suffice for big pharma and medical related uses. As far as warehouses are concerned, I believe brutalism is still too aesthetically driven to be useful for something that's really only supposed to be a purely rectangular structure with no design elements besides how much stuff it can store.

Now I mentioned how I prefer metal for the more high tech things. Is there a metallic version of brutalism? You know with all the strange monolithic designs but with blackened metal, perhaps some neon lights included. This could also function as a crypto/nft centric casino for tech bros. Something large, tall, Jenga like, yet looks like a parking garage clad in black metal would be great for a high tech robotics manufactory located within in urban environment. This mega parking garage of blackness could also be used to manufacture EVs (or hover vehicles/flying cars in the future) downtown in the center of the city. It must have a decent size underground component to house the more heavy industrial components to be out of sight from prying nimby eyes.

Some decent looking bridges and causeways could be created in this metallic brutalist style. Especially if one wants to create a car centric city with highways going up and over and under and around one another. Overpasses, underpasses, etc. All using these monolithic bridge like things. Put neon on them every so often to spruce them up and make them just glow and look ethereal at night, helps build a drag racing atmosphere in the city to recklessly drive automobiles at ludicrous speed.

Neon signs must be placed at various places across the city, but not the whole city. We want to balance it between a sort of tech noir/drab, industrial style versus a frat boy/techno bro casino playboy Vegas for the techno elite.

 

[Kyriakos]

This is the new (built a few years ago) brutalist town hall of this city:

Since it is the only building in that block, it should have been more elegant. Whatever, though, it's not the only negative thing about the city.
I do prefer the old town hall, which is a massive (possibly larger than this) and old building.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Monument to Fallen Fighters of World War II

Photographs of Yugoslavia’s Unmissable Brutalist Architecture

Photographer Donald Niebyl documents the architectural monoliths that memorialise the region’s most turbulent era

www.anothermag.com

 

[red_elk]

Monument in Brest, Belarus.
At the memorial dedicated to defenders of the Fortress.

Edit: Not sure it should be in the same category of architecture, but anyway looks quite "brutalist" to me.

 

[EvaDK]

There was an old joke among architect students studying in my city that sounded; 'Brutalism is what happens when you leave the architecture to the engineers.'