An image from the New Art Gallery of Western Australia, Structural Engineering Brochure, 1979.
Public Works Department of WA
Often described by critics as dehumanising, depressing and oppressive, Brutalism is having a moment – especially on social media.
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A first glimpse of the low-income housing scheme, designed in collaboration with West, raises red flags.
Gumtree Brutalism: the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library (1968), designed by Queensland architect James Birrell, on the James Cook University campus.
Academics are often in the vanguard of the fight to preserve heritage buildings but they are losing the battle on home turf as universities shed their 1960s and 1970s concrete skins.
The former state secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, Jack Mundey, in front of the Sirius building.
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Dallas Rogers speaks with Nicole Cook about how union 'green bans' in the 1970s stopped the redevelopment of working-class suburbs in Sydney.