Famous Brutalist Buildings Around the World

Raw concrete, heavy forms and structure left on show: this gallery collects the buildings people mean when they say brutalism, from Le Corbusier's postwar housing block in Marseille to the libraries, city halls, housing estates, museums and a radio headquarters that followed on five continents. To earn a place, a building had to be widely described as brutalist and famous enough that fans travel to photograph it. Each photo shows the building itself, and each caption names the architect, when it was finished and what makes it bold. The order is roughly chronological by completion, so the style's spread from France and Britain to the Americas, Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe reads from start to finish. A few, such as the Breuer Building and the Slovak Radio pyramid, are clad in stone or framed in steel, but their heavy, sculptural mass puts them on every brutalism tour.