I'm surprised you didn't mention London, Ontario's notorious example, the court house:
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nice shot of the depressing interior of Posvar Hall.. the worst aspect of my University of Pittsburgh education was having to spend every waking moment inside this abomination...
It reminds me of a prison, in many ways - which is ironic for a higher institution of learning.
Brutalism is a relatively cheap and quick building method, if you can account for the amount of labor that goes into fabricating the frames for all of the concrete pours. I wonder if this is the main reason why so many schools and businesses invest in it: concrete is durable and accesible and pretty versatile. Pegging the style as ugly or meaningless is subjective, but I do find it hard to believe that there are that many people out there constructing these types of buildings solely for their aesthetic appeal.
I saw this building on the news last night, and investigated it. It's the international Monetary Funds Building in D.C.
To think they knocked down this classic in Erie PA:
For this brutal piece of awfulness... billed as the "ultramodern" Erie Hilton in the late 1960s (now called the Avalon Hotel - a complete DUMP; the crappy green stuff added on in the early 90s makes it look even worse, if that is even possible):
Life Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
City Hall (Brantford, Ontario)
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For this brutal piece of awfulness... billed as the "ultramodern" Erie Hilton in the late 1960s (now called the Avalon Hotel - a complete DUMP; the crappy green stuff added on in the early 90s makes it look even worse, if that is even possible):
I think any style of architecture has is masters and wannabes. Louis I Kahn would have been a master of the style. The Salk Institute above as well as the Bangladesh capital complex in the photo above are testimony to the power of his work, and give a good indication of what other wannabe architects were aiming for with their work.