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elizabeth  ·  2971 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brutalism is back!

My home town of Montreal is a brutalist's dream. A lot of stuff was built during that period (maybe we have a big concrete lobby? Hahah). I've come to accept is as part of my every day life and don't even notice it so much.

Here's a couple off the top of my head.

Built for the 67 expo in Montreal:

My parents wanted to rent a place there but ceilings are crazy low and rooms very small with little to no windows because of the constraints of the cubic design.

Big Uglyness:

My metro station (it has like 30 meters ceilings, it looks grandiose):

My university a couple years ago:

They fixed it a bit: