[Krruqgwt]

That's stupid. I suppose that's a "Nay" vote.

[ziIReIGS]

That's better. The first one is OK looking, except that it looks like a tragedy waiting to happen.

[TritteTouff]

I love Brutalism

An example from Buenos Aires

[pertikuss]

Montreal

[ggandibazz]

Attempting to lump Montreal in with the ROQ

[Lillie_Steins]

Montreal not needing apologists

[yatrahnualenu]

First pic is Montreal in the wintertime. A bit difficult to landscape.

[DownloadMan]

It was built deliberately.

[resegooredo]

@KH Evergreens do rather nicely in cold climates, and their color would go naturally with the red in those bricks(?).

[codespokerbonus]

I assumed so.

I had to ask when I first saw it.

[Twelearly]

Another thought: How well would creeping vines do in Mont's climate? I'm talking the kinds that enjoy growing all over the sides of buildings. I can see some decids in there without their leaves, one pine tree (like I said, they're happy in winter and look good with the building), and my eyes can't easily make out what's going on in the space between the street and the building proper. Is that the winter mix of Grass-sidewalk-dirty snow?

[poulaMahmah]

Another thought: How well would creeping vines do in Mont's climate? I'm talking the kinds that enjoy growing all over the sides of buildings. I can see some decids in there without their leaves, one pine tree (like I said, they're happy in winter and look good with the building), and my eyes can't easily make out what's going on in the space between the street and the building proper. Is that the winter mix of Grass-sidewalk-dirty snow?

AFAIK, no vines are possible.

[Vobomei]

Here's an example of brutalism in Washington, D.C. Third Church of Christ Scientist. The Christian Scientists have wanted to tear this damn thing down for years.

The problem with obliterating these abominations is that you have a number of people on architectural boards who will fight for keeping examples of notable architecture styles, even if the building is an abomination.

[indocrew]

It was built deliberately.

Pity. It would have been inpressive if someone had dropped a load of concrete, steel and glass, and it all just fell into an assembled building.

[Dynasty]

So it's modeled on Galveston, Texas?

That would be a hurricane; but yes, a hurricane would work.

[astefecyAvevy]

Here's an example of brutalism in Washington, D.C. Third Church of Christ Scientist. The Christian Scientists have wanted to tear this damn thing down for years.

The problem with obliterating these abominations is that you have a number of people on architectural boards who will fight for keeping examples of notable architecture styles, even if the building is an abomination.

I like that building.

[AmericaAirline 111]

Why is it called brutalism?

[Rasklad]

On second thought, it's not a totally unmitigated NAY. There is one example of brutalist architecture in Washington that I like -- Metrorail.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...university.jpg

Ah, good point. I never think of metro as brutalist, but yea, it totally is. Downtown Rockville has tons of ugly, brutalist buildings, it is horrible and depressing.

[drexigordiche]

I'd like to brutally kill whoever keeps spawning you.

[qwerty1]

Why is it called brutalism?

From Wiki:

The English architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term in 1953, from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete," a phrase used by Le Corbusier to describe the poured board-marked concrete with which he constructed many of his post-WWII buildings. The term gained wide currency when the British architectural critic Reyner Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, to characterize a by then established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.