Cypress College was built in the late sixties and features a sort of neo-brutalist esthetic with lots and lots of concrete and exposed piping. Here's a good example, with some nice, sharp shadows shot right around noon. This is one of the few kinds of photographs that are better when the sun is high in the sky.
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Here's one for you Kevin. Paul Rudolph design
SMTI - Southeastern Mass Technological Institute
https://images.app.goo.gl/6z7uttcoMpUmB7bx7
Named changed to Southeastern Mass University (SMU) Now known as UMass Darthmouth
It's one of the coldest campuses I've ever been on. Wind whistled between the buildings and on cold days those buildings stayed awfully cold on the inside
We called it the concrete jungle
Learn to love your concussion.
What my father would call reformed prison architecture...
Don't go to too many military bases unless they're new...
Brutalist architecture can eat my butt.
I like the way a bright post meets up with the sunlit side of a doorway edge to make a seemingly impossible vertical thing running in front of and behind the shadows.
I'm curious as to why you're calling it a "sort of neo brutalist", rather than just Brutalist.
I wondered that myself, almost posted a comment a few hours ago. Unless Kevin means building built more recently but in the style of the old Brutalist buildings.
If it were Brutalist the concrete wouldn't have the vertical texture and both it and the pipes would be unpainted. It's more of a Structural Expressionist building.