Brutalist in a sentence

In the post-war era, brutalist designs helped governments fulfill a "deep social need" by engaging in massive civic projects, creating arts and culture spaces and rapidly building housing, she said.

It’s brutalist, functional gear that blends the modernity of the 16:10 display’s black monolith with a machined metal back and frame.

That second bit was added later, when iconic brutalist-style concrete bus shelters made way for ones with dedicated advertising spaces.

Anyone who thinks Brutalist architecture for a home is a good idea needs to have their head examined.

Gleaming, sparkling and glowing, the 18-karat yellow gold and white gold jewels embody quirky silhouettes influenced by boldly scaled Brutalist forms and the earthy, expressive power of tribal jewelry.

It has previously been reported that “The Brutalist” cost $10 million to make, a number that has surprised many people who have seen the film.

Musical thriller "Emilia Perez" and post-World War II epic "The Brutalist" topped the roster of films nominated Monday for the 2025 Golden Globes, the Hollywood honors that kick off the awards season leading to the Oscars.

The Actor of the Year category features Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Daniel Craig (“Queer”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”), and Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”).

Between Romanesque halls and residences on the University of Guelph’s central campus stands a six-storey brutalist building with a stern but kind face.

Added to which Basildon’s brutalist town centre now has a certain retro cachet to it.

Brutalist architecture in particular has fans around the world, who fight to protect buildings from demolition.

It’s home to lovely turn-of-the-20th-century structures designed by Stanford White, as well as several Brutalist structures by Marcel Breuer.

The Art Gallery of Alberta is a public art gallery located in Alberta, Canada that was originally designed in 1968 as a Brutalist building by Don Bittorf.

The popular BBC drama put a London brutalist estate front and centre.

To Westerners, the boxy buildings telegraph the bleak authority of so-called poured-concrete “Brutalist” architecture, which was somehow popular with both democratic and totalitarian governments during the postwar years.

Brutalist architecture has been criticised for being soulless and for promoting the exclusive use of a material that is poor at withstanding long exposures to natural weather. citation He received the AIA Gold Medal in 1966.

Of Brutalist architecture, it was voted "The World's Ugliest Building" in 2008.

Some of the early architecture was unpopular with many, not only for the brutalist designs, but the vast expanses between buildings, which was not viewed as suitable for the climate.