Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles presents a completely different architecture of the Colonial-era buildings that neighbor it.

How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world ...

Brutalism has a bad name. That may be, in part, because it is a bad name. This polarizing architectural style of the 1950s and '60s is the subject of the the film "The Brutalist," nominated for 10 ...

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection But heavy-handed motif-wielding has its limits, and The ...

President Trump wants to ditch concrete monstrosities like the FBI building that uglify Washington DC — and federal agencies ...

The brutalist style lent itself to rapid construction and was relatively affordable. ... Boston City Hall, built in the Brutalist architectural style, is seen in Boston on Friday, August 13, 2021.

Boston City Hall, built in the Brutalist architectural style, is seen in Boston on Friday, August 13, 2021. Image: Ted Shaffrey/AP.

Built in the 1960s by architect Paul Rudolph, UMass Dartmouth was his tribute to “raw concrete” and the Brutalist style of architecture. But today, much of that concrete is crumbling.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers its first public peek inside the new David Geffen Galleries building, whose vast ...