Glendale, CA, USA. Welton Becket & Associates.
Completed 1973. Shot February 2025.
Maybe the best street presence of any of the buildings I've visited for this project. Feels huge and impressive but still perfectly at home in the neighbourhood. (In a rare W for US brutalism, this library got a very respectful restoration in 2018. The two small wooden vestibules front and back are the only noticeable visual changes to the building's exterior.)
New York, NY, USA. I.M. Pei and James Ingo Freed.
Completed 1966. Shot November 2024.
A cool trio of towers in Lower Manhattan. One of them is a housing cooperative, and the other two are NYU student and faculty housing. The art installation in the courtyard is an enlarged version of a Picasso sculpture.
Chicago, IL, USA. Walter Netsch (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill).
Completed 1970. Shot September 2024.
Bonus content from my recent Chicago trip. Northwestern University also has a huge Netsch-designed library! The outdoor courtyards and walkways between the four lobes of this thing feel awesome to hang out in.
Chicago, IL, USA. Walter Netsch (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill).
Completed 1970. Shot September 2024.
The university asked that Netsch make use of the same local limestone as the historic buildings of the main university quad, so what appears to be raw concrete is actually massive slabs of cut limestone. Looks cool!
Los Angeles, CA, USA. A.C. Martin & Associates.
Completed 1969. Shot August 2024.
This one's weird enough that some might argue it's not even brutalism, but it's definitely pretty neato.
Seattle, WA, USA. Lawrence Halprin, Angela Danadjieva.
Completed 1976 (expanded 1982). Shot July 2024.
Landscape architecture can be brutalist too! The verticality of this place and the way it weaves under and around the freeway is remarkable in person.
New York, NY, USA. John Carl Warnecke.
Completed 1974. Shot April 2024.
There was some construction going on across the frontage when I visited, so I didn't get the best photos, but man this thing is wild looking in person.
