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Nudity, steam and an icy-bath plunge are the only respectable way to lay eyes on Portland's newest slice of Brutalist architecture.
A time capsule from the ’70s, built in the brutalist style of the era, it still offers therapeutic treatments from the glory days of the Soviet Union.
'Sanatorium' is a Gar O'Rourke documentary about the former Soviet Kuyalnyk wellness resort in Odesa, Ukraine that premieres at CPH DOX in Copenhagen.
Social media and coffee table books have been "bringing new attention and new eyes" to the brutalist style, an expert tells Newsweek.
In his foreword to the Capital Brutalism catalog, architecture critic and educator Aaron Betsky contends that Washington’s brutalist buildings “managed to make the case for a heroic”—that word ...
The Brutalist won a trio of Oscars last night, but it failed to say anything meaningful about architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote.
After rising to fame with the success of his photographic project Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig has traveled the world with a keen eye for design. Now based in Sri Lanka, we ...
Brutalism was an architecture that struggled with the history and the drama and violence of 20th-century history. In Europe, it’s literally building on the ruins of the war.
While the Soviet Union’s 1950s and 1960s prefabricated concrete panel housing estates built under Premier Nikita Khruschev embody the Brutalist devotion to cost efficiency and social problem ...
While the Soviet Union’s 1950s and 1960s prefabricated concrete panel housing estates built under Premier Nikita Khruschev embody the Brutalist devotion to cost efficiency and social problem ...
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?
'The Brutalist' is up for 10 Oscars. But real brutalist architecture is seldom celebrated. Here are some local examples in the tristate area.