Instagram Account Combines Brutalist Architecture With Cute Cats (87 Pics)

We all know that a cat will sit where it fits, but if they were huge, couldn't that become a little bit problematic? Well, you should never underestimate a cat's ability to curl up in the most unexpected places, and this Instagram account understands that perfectly. "Cats of brutalism" shows what would happen if cats suddenly blew up or cities shrunk. One way or another, black and white digital manipulations show cats taking over the most spectacular examples of brutalist architecture around the world.

Three students of Master of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, Emily Battaglia, Madelaine Ong, and Michaela Senay, set up the account to provide people with a "daily dose of cats and concrete," something you'd probably never have imagined you'd enjoy so much, and didn't expect it to become overwhelmingly popular with 83.7k Instagram followers. However, the juxtaposition of rough brutalist structures with soft and adorable cats creates absurd, yet whimsical images people can't seem to get enough of.

Emily Battaglia, one of the creators of the project, told Bored Panda:

“We never imagined this project would reach the audience it has. Our goal originally was to reach an audience of about 1,500 in 3 months to be able to call it successful. By 3 months, we were close to 20 thousand. The response has been very positive as well. We have received a lot of appraisal and support, which is what motivates us to post daily.”

Scroll through the gallery of cat-zillas and discover the wonders of brutalist architecture at the same time, then let us know which photos you like the most!

More info: Instagram | catsofbrutalism.com

#1 "Musical Island", Villa-Lobos State Park; Decio Tozzi, 1989, São Paulo, Brazil

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#2 Central Post Office; Janko Konstantinov, 1982, Skopje, Macedonia

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#3 Textile Centre; Chee Soon Wah, 1974, Kallang, Singapore

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#4 Milwaukee Police Administration Building; 1971, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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#5 U-House; Toyo Itob, 1977 D. 1988, Tokyo, Japan

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#6 Rivergate Tower; Harry Wolf, 1988, Tampa, Florida

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#7 Omsk Musical Theatre; Lurie, Strigun And Belousova, 1981, Omsk Oblast, Russia

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#8 Tate & Lyle Sugar Silo; Stuart Stephenson, 1957, Liverpool, England

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#9 Mondadori Group Headquarters; Oscar Niemeyer, 1975, Milan, Italy

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#10 Palácio Da Justiça; Oscar Niemeyer, 1962, Brasilia, Brazil

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#11 Dr Seo's Women's Clinic Building (Atrium Office Building); Chung-Up Kim, 1967, Seoul, Korea

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#12 Ohio History Center; Ireland & Associates, 1970, Columbus, Ohio

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#13 Montreal Olympic Stadium; Roger Taillibert, 1976, Montreal, Canada

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#14 Cirqua Apartments; BKK Architects, 2017, Melbourne, Australia

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#15 Sesc Pompéia; Lina Bo Bardi, 1982, São Paulo, Brazil

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#16 Kojomkul Sports Palace; V. Kostin And V. Marukov, 1974, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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#17 "Bublik" Apartment Complex; Eugene Stamo, 1972, Moscow, Russia

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#18 Bruder-Klaus Field Chapel; Peter Zumthor, 2007, Mechernich, Germany

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#19 Salute Hotel; Avraam Miletsky, N. Slogotskaya, Vladimir Shevchenko, 1984, Kyiv, Ukraine

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#20 Shri Ram Center For Art And Culture; Shiv Nath Prasad & Mahendra Raj, 1969, New Delhi, India

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#21 The Rock, Brown University Library; Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde, 1964, Providence, Rhode Island

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#22 Orange County Government Center; Paul Rudolph, 1963, Goshen, New York

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#23 Crosley Tower, University At Cincinnati; A.M. Kinney Associates, 1969, Cincinnati, Ohio

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#24 Milwaukee County War Memorial Center; Eero Saarinen, 1957, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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#25 Rozenburg Wind Wall; Maarten Struijs, 1985, Rozenburg, Netherlands

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#26 Torre Dorrego; Luis T. Caffarini, Alfredo Joselevich, & Alberto Ricur, 1968 - 1970, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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#27 Marina City; Bertrand Goldberg, 1964-68, Chicago, Illinois

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#28 Deaton Sculptured House; Charles Deaton, 1963, Genesee, Colorado

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#29 Hotel Panorama Resort; Zdeněk Řihák, 1969, Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia

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#30 Monument Ilinden; Jordan And Iskra Grabuloski, 1974, Krushevo, Macedonia

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#31 Ponte City Apartments; Manfred Hermer, 1975, Johannesburg, South Africa

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#32 Preston Bus Station; Keith Ingham, Charles Wilson & E.H. Stazicker, 1969, Lancashire, England

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#33 Australian High Commission; Leong Thian And Rakan Rakan, 1978, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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#34 Templo De La Dolorosa; Milton Barragán Dumet, 1978, Quito, Ecuador

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#35 Endo Pharmaceuticals Building; Paul Rudolph, 1962 - 1964, Garden City, Long Island, United States

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#36 Cathédrale Saint-Paul D'Abidjan; Aldo Spirito, 1985, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire

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#37 The Alley Theatre; Ulrich Franzen, 1968, Houston, Texas

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#38 Tower Of Shadows; Le Corbusier, 1952, Chandigarh, India

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#39 River City; Bertrand Goldberg, 1986, Chicago, Illinois

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#40 Hôtel Du Lac; Raffaele Contigiani, 1973,tunis, Tunisia

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#41 Robert C. Weaver Federal Building; Marcel Breuer, 1965, Washington, D.C.

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#42 Mube (Museu Brasileiro Da Escultura E Ecologia); Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, 1995, São Paulo, Brazil

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#43 Romanita Collective Housing Tower; O. Vronsky, 1986, Chișinău, Moldova

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#44 Habitat 67; Moshe Safdie, 1967, Montreal, Quebec

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#45 Philips Pavilion; Iannis Xenakis/ Le Corbusier Firm, B.1958 D.1959, Brussels, Belgium

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#46 Il Quadrilatero (Ater), Rozzol Melara Complex; Carlo Celli & Luciano Celli, 1969 - 1983, Trieste, Italy

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#47 Rainier Tower; Minoru Yamasaki, 1977, Seattle, Washington

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#48 Mill Owners' Association Building; Le Corbusier, 1954, Ahmedabad, India

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#49 Unikato; Kwk Promes, 2018, Katowice, Poland

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#50 Libre - Sect. Bnp Paribas Fortis; Marcel Lambrich, C. Grochowski & D. De Laveleye, 1969-73, Brussels, Belgium

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#51 Samuel L. Paley Library, Temple University; Nolen & Swinburne, 1965, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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#52 Torres Blancas; Francisco Javier Saenz De Oiza, 1969, Madrid, Spain

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#53 Macy's Queens Plaza; Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, 1965, Queens, New York

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#54 Dallas City Hall; I.M Pei & Theodore Musho, 1978, Dallas, Texas

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#55 Cathedral Of Brasilia; Oscar Niemeyer, 1970, Brasilia, Brazil

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#56 Johannes XXIII Church; Heinz Buchmann, 1968, Cologne, Germany

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#57 Former Sears Office Building; Maxwell Miller, 1971, Toronto, Canada

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#58 Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall; Pietro Belluschi And Associates, 1969, New York, New York

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#59 E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall; Caudill, Rowlett And Scott Of Houston, And Dalton, Van Dijk, Johnson And Partners Of Cleveland, 1973, Akron, Ohio

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#60 Royal National Theatre; Denys Lasdun, 1976, London, England

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#61 Buffalo City Court; Pfohl, Roberts And Biggie, 1974, Buffalo, New York

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#62 Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium; Kenzo Tange, 1962 - 1964, Takamatsu, Japan

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#63 Barbican Centre; Peter Chamberlin, Geoffry Powell, And Christoph Bon, 1976, London, United Kingdom

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#64 Morisset Library, University Of Ottawa; Cliff Chin, 1972, Ottawa, Canada

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#65 Edificio JK; Oscar Niemeyer, 1952, Belo Horizante, Brazil

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#66 Toronto City Hall; Viljo Revell, Bruce Kuwabara, 1965, Toronto, Canada

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#67 Hubert H. Humphrey Building; Marcel Breuer, 1977, Washington, D.C.

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#68 Unite D'Habitation; Le Corbusier, 1952, Marseille, France

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#69 Museum Of Modern Art In Rio De Janeiro; Affonso Eduardo Reidy, 1948, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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#70 National Congress Of Brasilia; Oscar Niemeyer, 1960, Brasilia, Brazil

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#71 Jerome L. Greene Hall, Columbia University; Harrison & Abramovitz, 1961, New York, New York

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#72 Dunelm House; Architects’ Co-Partnership, 1965, Durham, United Kingdom

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#73 Student Dormitory Goce Delčev; Georgi Konstantinovski, 1969, Skopje, Macedonia

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#74 James V. Forrestal Building; Curtis & Davis, Fordyce And Hamby Associates; Frank Grad & Sons, 1965 - 1969, Washington, D.C.

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#75 Park Hill; Jack Lynn & Ivor Smith, 1961, Sheffield, England

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#76 Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno; Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich & Alicia Cazzaniga, 1972 - 1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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#77 Embarcadero Center; John C Portman Jr, 1971-1989, San Francisco, California

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#78 Burnaby Mountain; Arthur Erickson, 1965, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

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#79 Metropolitan Cathedral; Frederick Gibberd, 1967, Liverpool, England

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#80 Faculty Of Fine Arts, University Of La Laguna; GPY Arquitectos, 2016, Campus De Guajara, San Cristóbal De La Laguna, Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Spain

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#81 Lecture Centre Brunel University; John Heywood, 1965 - 1966, Uxbridge, London

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#82 Gelman Library; Cox Graae + Spack Architects, 1971 - 1973 (Renovated 2013), George Washington University, Washington D.C.

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#83 São Paulo Museum Of Art; Lina Bo Bardi, 1968, São Paulo

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#84 Faculty Of Architecture & Urbanism - University Of Sao Paulo; Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas, 1961, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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#85 Netsch University Hall, UIC; Walter Netsch, 1964, Chicago, Illinois

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#86 Helen C. White Hall, University Of Wisconsin—Madison; Gordon Pierce, 1969, Madison, Wisconsin

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#87 Sirius Building; Tao Gofers, 1980, Sydney, Australia

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