abstract:Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture that flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement. Examples are typically very linear, fortresslike and blockish, often with a predominance of concrete construction.
Not only was the D630 an unintended homage to neo-Brutalist architecture at its ugliest, but I got to know every well how loooonnnggg it took to boot every morning.
Erected by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in 1976, the three towers of the Barbican Estate the Cromwell, the Shakespeare and the Lauderdale then the tallest in town, had been admired for decades by fans of Brutalistarchitecture.
The Georgian government, however, is unperturbed by the critics, saying the move makes a clean break from the brutalist Soviet-era architecture that dominates Tbilisi.