Brutalist architecture, known for its raw concrete ... Designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and completed in 1982, the Barbican in London epitomizes brutalist urban planning.

How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world ...

By the Sixties and Seventies, brutalism began to be used as a broader term to describe architecture characterised by monolithic concrete forms with an imposing or monumental appearance.

Built in a Brutalist style, Balfron Tower is an old council housing block in East London (Picture: Getty Images) Ladbroke Grove’s Trellick Tower’s imposing architecture can be quite polarising ...