London's best brutalist homes — from the Alexandra Road Estate to the Barbican - With the capital entranced by The Brutalist, ...

In Pictures via Getty Images One of the most impressive feats of concrete engineering, and a masterpiece in housing design, is the Seventies Alexandra Road Estate in Swiss Cottage, designed by ...

British architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term “New Brutalism” (originating from the French béton brut, meaning “raw concrete”) to describe not just an aesthetic style, but a philosophy ...