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- adjective architecture A style of
modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-markedconcrete - noun An
architect who used this style
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Examples
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While the term Brutalist is derived from béton brut - French for raw concrete - the interesting thing about 222 Jarvis is that it uses a combination of materials.
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Davies and Kynaston also share villains: the urban planners and bureaucrats who, blinded by a grandiose technocratic ideology, refused to heed what one of them dismissed as “the inarticulate yearnings of the average working-class housewife” and so razed century-old slums, tore apart neighborhoods, and moved their occupants out of the city centers to stack them up in Brutalist tower blocks.
Intimate History 2010
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Davies and Kynaston also share villains: the urban planners and bureaucrats who, blinded by a grandiose technocratic ideology, refused to heed what one of them dismissed as “the inarticulate yearnings of the average working-class housewife” and so razed century-old slums, tore apart neighborhoods, and moved their occupants out of the city centers to stack them up in Brutalist tower blocks.
Intimate History 2010
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The house is concrete and glass, an example of what is called Brutalist architecture.
The Ghost (s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror 2010
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The house is concrete and glass, an example of what is called Brutalist architecture.
William Bradley: The Ghost (s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror 2010
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Frankly, I find the "Brutalist" style of my cell — the plastic bench and exposed toilet-a bit tiresome after three years, two months and twenty-four days.
The Maximum Security Book Group Con Chapman 2010
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He likened the designs to "Brutalist" developments and confessed that his "heart sank" when he saw them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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He likened the designs to "Brutalist" developments and confessed that his "heart sank" when he saw them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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He likened the designs to "Brutalist" developments and confessed that his "heart sank" when he saw them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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He likened the designs to "Brutalist" developments and confessed that his "heart sank" when he saw them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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