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.
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 This Street Lamp In Wroclaw, Poland
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#2 Glencairn Tower, Motherwell, Scotland Photo By Les Shafer
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#3 Singapore Photo By Leslie Heng
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#4 Torres Blancas In Madrid. Photo By Gregor Pieplow
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#5 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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#6 Mask Of Sorrow (1996, Dedicated To The Memory For The Prisoners Of Gulag) Magadan, Russia Sculptor : Ernst Neizvestny
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#7 Chongqing, China
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#8 Tbilisi, Georgia
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#9 Haludovo Resort, Malinska, Croatia, Built In The Early 70-S Architect: Boris Magas
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#10 Borisov, Belarus Photo/Collage By Gera More
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#11 Control Room
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#12 The Biosphere Is A Museum In Montreal Dedicated To The Environment
It is located at Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Saint Helen's Island in the former pavilion of the United States for the 1967 World Fair, Expo 67. The museum's geodesic dome was designed by Buckminster Fuller
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#13 Abandoned Modernist Hotel In Bosnia
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#14 Bełchatów Power Station And Osiedle Dolnośląskie Subdivision, Poland
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#15 High Island Reservoir East Dam, Sai Kung East Country Park, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
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#16 Art Work: Martin Loureiro
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#17 Chuvash State Opera And Ballet Center, Chuvash Republic
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#18 Table. Author Stephan Schmitz
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#19 Beirut. Photo By Serge Najjar
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#20 Brutalism Moments
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#21 Chronicles Of Georgia, Tbilisi
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#22 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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#23 Dam Tunnel In The Woods Outside Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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#24 Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, California Built In 1973 Architect John Portman & Associates
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#25 Social Housing. Pardis Town East Of Tehran, Iran
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#26 Banco Hipotecario (Ex Banco De Londres) Buenos Aires Argentina Arquitecto Clorindo Testa Photo By Silvia Otero
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#27 Construction Of The Atomium, The Belgian Pavilion For The World Expo 58 In Brussels, Belgium, 1957. Photo By Dolf Kruger
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#28 Traffic Control Tower, Sofia, Bulgaria
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#29 House Lim-Millan (Also Leme House) By Paulo Mendes Da Rocha Sao Paulo, Brazil 1970-74
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#30 Solna Centrum Station, Stockholm, Sweden
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#31 Douglas House Harbor Springs, Michigan 1971 - 1973 Richard Meier Photographer: Carol M
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#32 Aogashima Island, Japan. Concrete Cell Anchor Ties. Photo By Norio Nakayama
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#33 Backup Power Station, Sweden
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#34 Any Thoughts?
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#35 Congresso Nacional Do Brasil, Brasília, Brazil. 60s Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
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#36 A Vividly-Coloured Apartment Block In Singapore
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#37 Burroughs Wellcome Building, Paul Rudolph Architect Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, 1972
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#38 Playground In Donetsk
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#39 One Of Two Twin Underground Reservoirs In Forstenried Park Holding The Drinking Water For Munich, Germany
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#40 Sentimentalism
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#41 Water Tower, Near Moncontour In Brittany. Photo By Lauren Marsolier
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#42 Palacio Do Buriti Brasilia Image By Bernie Dechant
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#43 Monjitas, San Antonio, Chile
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#44 Offices Of The Central Social Institution, Prague, Czechoslovakia - Ca.1937
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#45 Ww2 German Observation Tower On Guernsey Island
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#46 London Aquatics Centre, 2014
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#47 Sleipner A Is A Combined Accommodations, Production And Processing Offshore Platform At The Sleipner East Gas Field In The Norwegian Sector Of The North Sea
It is a Condeep-type oil platform, built in Norway.
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#48 Cairo, Egypt. Photo By Karim Shafey
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#49 Apartment Complex, Ivry-Seine, France, 1969-75 Architect: Renée Gailhoustet, Jean Renaudie
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#50 Power Lines Are Crushed With The Weight Of Four Days Of Accumulated Freezing Rain In Boucherville Near Montreal, Canada, January 9, 1998
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#51 The Ryugyong Hotel Is An Unfinished 105-Story, 330-Metre-Tall (1,080 Ft) Pyramid-Shaped Skyscraper In Pyongyang, North Korea. (Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers)
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#52 Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant
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#53 What Do You Have In Mind Seeing This Scene ?
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#54 Panorama Hotel Ski Resort In Štrbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia, 1970
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#55 "L'immeuble En Vague" (The Wave Building), Resort Of La Baule, Brittany, France Built In The 1970-S By Pierre Doucet. Photo By Etienne Gérard
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#56 Fountain Dedicated To José Martí, A Figurehead Of Cuban Independence, And The Revolutionary Leader Abel Santamaría, Santiago De Cuba
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#57 Ruin Of Haludovo Palace Hotel As Seen From Pool Area. Island Krk North Of Malinska, Croatia
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#58 Brooklyn Army Terminal. Architect: Cass Gilbert, 1918-19. Photo By Andreas Feininger
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#59 Castillo Pindu In Asuncion, Paraguay. Architect Jenaro Pindú
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#60 China’s Coal Addiction - Daily Life, Photo By Kevin Frayer, 2016
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#61 Ezüstpart Hotel Siófok, Hungary Built In 1978-1983 Architect: Ernő Tillai
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#62 The Motherland During Restoration
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#63 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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#64 Todoroki Residence, (House Within A Hous), Ichikawa, Japan, (1976) By Hiromi Fujii
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#65 Temppeliaukio Church Helsinki, Finland. 1969 Architects: Timo And Tuomo Suomalainen
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#66 University Of East Anglia Norwich, UK By Feilden And Mawson
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#67 Bed & Bunker (Albania) Design By Students Of Fh Mainz And Polis
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#68 China In China’s Hebei Province, You Can Stay At The Tianzi Hotel Which Is Shaped Like Three Chinese Deities
Tianzi loosely translates to Son of Heaven The Tianzi Hotel was built sometime between 2000 and 2001. The three gods represent figures dating all the way back to the Ming Dynasty. The guy in blue is Shou, and he’s associated with longevity. The one is red is Fu, and he’s associated with fortune. The guy in green is Lu, and he’s associated with prosperity. The entire body of each is a hotel building, and the rooms go all the way up
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#69 Brazilian Embassy, Buenos Aires, 1978-89. Olavo Redig De Campos, Oswaldo Cintra De Carvalho
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#70 Google Search By Image Thinks It Is In Sao Paolo
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#71 Bonaventure Hotel Designed By John Portman, 1976; Downtown Los Angeles, California
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#72 Magnitogorsk, Russia. Photo By Sergey Karpukhin
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#73 African Renaissance Monument Dakar - Senegal Architect: Pierre Goudiaby
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#74 Jean Piaget - Psychologist, Biologist, Pedagogist, And Swiss Philosopher Photographed In His Office. For When They Tell You You're Messy
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#75 Hotel Panorama, By Zdeněk Řihák, Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia, 1967
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#76 Mercedes Garage – Alfonso Molina Ave, Spain This Ghost Car Dealership Had Just One Car Left Over
Apparently, the car was assembled using parts found in around the garage and was abandoned when the dealership, and later the garage, closed up shop
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#77 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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#78 Verne High Angle Battery, Portland, Dorset, England. Photo: Marc Wilson
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#79 Petrol Station, Slovakia, Designed By Atelier Sad
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#80 Designed By Manfred Hermer, Mannie Feldman And Rodney Grosskopf, The Ponte Tower, Completed In 1975, Quickly Became A Monument To Failed Architectural And Social Fantasies Of A Neatly Organized Society
During its existence, the core of the 173 m high cylinder was filled with trash, apartments were used as drug stations and brothels, and gangsters collected rent. Even now, after a decade of restoration, standing on the natural rock at its base, with rain coming down from the heavens, evokes an experience of being in an architecture that belongs to the order of the pyramids
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#81 San Diego Freeway
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#82 The Citroen Karin #brutgroup Photo © 1996 – 2019 The Hagerty Group, Llc
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#83 Palácio Do Planalto, Brazil, Brasília, Built: 1958-60, Oscar Niemeyer
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#84 Espresso Buffet In Budapest, Hungary. Cca 1960s
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#85 Concrete Block Of Flats Abandoned In 1964, Located In Kamchatka, (Russia), The Former Fishing Village Kirovsky
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#86 Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York, United States, Built: 1958. Architect: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe; Philip Johnson
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#87 Now This!
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#88 Erosion Control In Japan. Photo By Yasushi Okano
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#89 The Aillaud Towers (Cloud Towers) Nanterre, France, By Architect Émile Aillaud, 1977. Photo By Alex Maclean
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#90 Traffic Control Booth. Chernivtsi, Ukraine. 1970s
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#91 Benjamin Heath. Under The Golden Gate Bridge
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#92 Telecommunication Office, Detail Skopje, North Macedonia 1972-74
Urban Planning by Kenzo Tange (1960s) Architect Janko Konstantinov (c) BACU photo by Dumitru RUSU
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#93 Restaurant Vasara (Summer) Palanga, Lithuania. Built In 1967 Architect: Aleksandras Eigirdas. Photo By Geert Goiris
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#94 Castillo Pindu In Asuncion, Paraguay. Architect Jenaro Pindú
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#95 Round House In Moscow, Russia Architect: Eugene Stamo Et Al. 1972
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#96 La Cour Des Voraces, Lyon, France, Circa 1840 (Silk Industry) Located On The Slopes Of The Croix Rousse
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#97 Cultural Center Of The Philippines, Manila. Architect: Leandro Locsin, 1969
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#98 Kowloon Walled City, Demolished Around 1992. #brutgroup Photo Via The Book City Of Darkness
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#99 Here Is A Gem For U All!
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#100 The World Trade Center In 1975, Photo By Jean-Pierre Laffont
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#101 World Trade Center Towers, Lower Manhattan, New York Built: 1968-70, Destroyed: 2001 Architect Minoru Yamasaki
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#102 Have A Splendid Day With Photo By John Dominis
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#103 Summer House, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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#104 Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, Armenia
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#105 Ddr Pankow/East Berlin Swimming Pools During Late 1960s
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#106 The Alexandra Road Estate In Camden, North London, Which Is Now Grade II*-Listed
It was designed in 1968 by architect Neave Brown and built in 1978 photo by Ann Cator
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#107 Tanbrook Abbey Church Yorkshire, England
Completion: September 2015 Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. Photo by Dan Kitwood
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#108 Beirut Spiral Beirut, Lebanon, 2007 Photo By Sean Hemmerle
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#109 Ammanauz Hotel (Abandoned) In Dombai, The Karachay-Cherkess Republic 1982-85
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#110 Ryugyong Hotel , Pyongyang, 1987-92 Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers
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#111 Deaton’s House, Genesee Mountain, Golden, Colorado, 1963-66
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#112 In 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright Entered This And Other Sketches As His Vision Of A Master Plan For The Los Angeles Civic Center
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#113 López Balan, Proyecto Conceptual “Church Without God” (“Una Iglesia Sin Dios”,) By Balan Israel
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#114 National Library, (Collage) Minsk, Belarus, The Actual Building Was Completed In 2006. Architects: Viktor Kramarenko And Michael Vinogradov
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#115 Chapel Of The Holy Cross Was Built Between 1955-1956 In Sedona, Arizona, USA By Marguerite Brunswig Staude
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