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Soviet brutalist architecture: beyond the genre's striking image
Soviet brutalist architecture offers eye-catching imagery; we delve into the genre’s daring concepts and look beyond its buildings’ photogenic richness
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Is Rochester Street Office a creative worker’s dream? Inside a Sydney workspace echoing calmness and light
Rochester Street Office by Allied_Office merges utilitarian design with cascading vegetation, presenting a thriving environment for creativity and collaboration
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Brutalism in film: the beautiful house that forms the backdrop to The Room Next Door
The Room Next Door's production designer discusses mood-boarding and scene-setting for a moving film about friendship, fragility and the final curtain
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The finest brutalist architecture in the world
For some of the world's finest brutalist architecture in London and beyond, scroll below. Can’t get enough of brutalism? Neither can we.
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‘Brutalist Plants’ is a new monograph capturing the best of eco-brutalism
'Brutalist Plants,' the new book by Olivia Broome, captures concrete architecture engulfed with nature
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This 1970s brutalist house in Belgium has a new life as a designer’s home and studio
1970s brutalist house Villa Stuyven is now home to creative couple Bram Kerkhofs and Lore Baeyens, providing a concrete-lined backdrop to a life of design and collaboration
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Best of brutalist Italian architecture chronicled in new book
Brutalist Italian architecture enthusiasts and concrete completists will be spoilt for choice by Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego’s pictorial tour
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A show on British cooling towers explores these sculptural giants
'British Cooling Towers - Sculptural Giants' is a new exhibition created by Twentieth Century Society (C20 Society) and Margaret Howell, presented during the London Festival of Architecture 2023
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‘Brutalist Paris’ is a book that lays bare the legacy of the city’s concrete architecture
Architectural cartographer Blue Crow Media launches ‘Brutalist Paris’, its first book, a photographic study of the French capital’s surviving brutalist treasures and concrete impasses
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London’s brutalist Balfron Tower is brought back to life
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Come play at the RIBA’s Brutalist Playground by Assemble and Simon Terrill
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'Building The Brutal': celebrating the construction of London's Barbican
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Isabel Bonner’s Brutalist jewellery gets graphic
Isabel Bonner is inspired by Brutalist architecture and modernist design for simple jewellery which stands out
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Brutalist architecture-inspired diamond rings pave the way in Paris
Paris-based jewellery brand Statement is inspired by the Art Deco period and Brutalist architecture for striking diamond cocktail rings
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The imagined modernist world of 3D artist Alexis Christodoulou
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Future perfect: a new era for Preston Bus Station
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Inside Brian Housden’s masterpiece of British modernism
A meeting with De Stijl master Gerrit Rietveld inspired architect Brian Housden (1928-2014) to throw away the timid first drafts of his London home – and instead design one of Britain’s first brutalist dwellings. In November 2014, 78 South Hill Park achieved Grade II-listed status, the same week that the late architect passed away
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London’s brutalist Balfron Tower opens two eclectically designed show apartments
Ab Rogers Design and Studio Egret West have combined restoration, creativity and collaboration to design the interiors of two show apartments in one of London’s most iconic residential towers
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Minimalist office pops up at London brutalist icon the Smithson Tower
ConForm Architects creates minimalist office at London’s Smithson Tower, uniting brutalist architecture, modernism and a comfortable, almost domestic working environment
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Brutalist architecture meets midcentury interiors in this modern San Francisco home
Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group refresh the brutalist architecture of a midcentury San Francisco home originally designed by Joseph Esherick and the 1960s
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Brutalist cathedral in the UK opens to the public following renovation
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Architect Laurence Quinn welcomes us to his renovated Barbican home
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Accidental heroes: a Mexican concrete master mix
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Belgian Brutalist: Van Wassenhove House by Juliaan Lampens opens its doors
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The hidden Le Corbusier connection in Peter Doig’s landmark painting
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Brutalist book club: colossal compendiums of concrete architecture
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s São Paulo house for art dealer Eduardo Leme
Paulo Mendes da Rocha has a fan in art dealer Eduardo Leme, who commissioned the Brazilian architect to design both his house and art gallery in São Paulo. Wallpaper* visited Casa Millán in 2006 (W*88), to find out how the brutal concrete residence, originally built by da Rocha in 1969 for another art dealer, was adapted for its new owner
