The 225-year-old Santa Ursula Parish Church was declared a National Cultural Treasure by the National Commission for Culture ...

“Brutalism really is about the rawness of the structure, the kind of immediacy of the material,” said Brother Alan Reed, a monk at St. John’s Abbey and resident expert on the church’s design.

Brutalism is a polarizing design style that ... parapets" or "a bunch of boxes piled up," rather than his extraordinary church. Still, he said, his fellow monks are "quite excited" by the extra ...

What some find beautiful, others find ugly. Brutalist architecture divides opinion. The question now is: demolish or preserve?

Some are fascinated by Brutalism's simple geometric shapes and raw, exposed concrete — while others can't stand it. What makes this architectural style so divisive?