Brutalism is an architectural style that prioritizes bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design. It is generally associated with rough, unfinished surfaces, unusual shapes, and just an overall heavy look.
Originating in the 1950s and 1960s, brutalist buildings were popular in public housing projects, government buildings, and universities. Despite criticism for its rough appearance and perceived coldness, the style has gained a big following in recent years, and the Instagram account BRUTgroup is an excellent illustration of that.
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Sharing pictures of brutalist aesthetics, it has garnered a following of 445K people (one of whom is a brilliant Polish composer, Hania Rani, who has a beautiful Instagram account of her own), and the number just keeps climbing. Continue scrolling to check out some of the account’s most-liked uploads and see for yourself that structures can elicit strong emotions. Whether it’s love or hate.
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#1 Mask Of Sorrow (1996, Dedicated To The Memory For The Prisoners Of Gulag) Magadan, Russia Sculptor : Ernst Neizvestny
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#2 This Street Lamp In Wroclaw, Poland
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#3 Chronicles Of Georgia, Tbilisi
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#4 Table. Author Stephan Schmitz
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#5 High Island Reservoir East Dam, Sai Kung East Country Park, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
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#6 One Of Two Twin Underground Reservoirs In Forstenried Park Holding The Drinking Water For Munich, Germany
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#7 Torres Blancas In Madrid. Photo By Gregor Pieplow
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#8 Ww2 German Observation Tower On Guernsey Island
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#9 Glencairn Tower, Motherwell, Scotland Photo By Les Shafer
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#10 Backup Power Station, Sweden
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#11 Burroughs Wellcome Building, Paul Rudolph Architect Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, 1972
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#12 Art Work: Martin Loureiro
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#13 Climbing Holidays, 2017
This model of a hotel on stilts brings to mind Tatzu Nishi’s suspended spaces, in which rooms, and even functioning hotels, are installed around historical public monuments
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#14 Solna Centrum Station, Stockholm, Sweden
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#15 Chuvash State Opera And Ballet Center, Chuvash Republic
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#16 Any Thoughts?
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#17 Beirut. Photo By Serge Najjar
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#18 Construction Of The Atomium, The Belgian Pavilion For The World Expo 58 In Brussels, Belgium, 1957. Photo By Dolf Kruger
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#19 This Is The View Looking Up To A Spiralling Staircase, Seen Inside The Main Tower Of A Church In France. Building: St. Joseph’s Church
Location: Le Havre, France Architect: Auguste Perret
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#20 Singapore Photo By Leslie Heng
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#21 London Aquatics Centre, 2014
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#22 Offices Of The Central Social Institution, Prague, Czechoslovakia – Ca.1937
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#23 Abandoned Modernist Hotel In Bosnia
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#24 1994. The Hope For Peace (Espoir De Paix) Monument Is A Monument In Yarze, Lebanon
Made to celebrate the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990. It was designed by the artist Armand Fernandez
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#25 Duga, Outside Of Chernobyl, Was A Soviet Experimental Over-The-Horizon Radar System. It Was Developed For The Soviet Abm Early-Warning Network. The System Operated From 1976 To 1989
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#26 Chongqing, China
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#27 House Lim-Millan (Also Leme House) By Paulo Mendes Da Rocha Sao Paulo, Brazil 1970-74
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#28 Dam Tunnel In The Woods Outside Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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#29 Tbilisi, Georgia
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#30 Congresso Nacional Do Brasil, Brasília, Brazil. 60s Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
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