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    1. MindGame

      Looks to be too new to be brutalist, which faded out by around the mid 70s. It looks more like a rather subdued example of postmodernist architecture.

      1. D_Ohrk_E1

        That's not Brutalist either. It's just an ugly building. The attempt at simple finials suggest decoration, antithetical to the severe minimalist starkness of Brutalism.

          1. D_Ohrk_E1

            Tadao Ando's works are "brutalistic" in its minimalism and focus on concrete form. So was Le Corbusier's late works, including Chandigarh.

        2. MikeTheMathGuy

          I won't argue, since you certainly know far more about architecture than I do. But FWIW, there are other people who know far more about architecture than I do who consider it a good example of brutalism.

    4. Salamander

      Thanks to you all for the information and links! I actually know nothing about architecture, just what I like.For the record, I also like Louisiana's old state Capitol building, which Mark Twain described as the ugliest building he had ever seen.

  3. Five Parrots in a Shoe

    In a place where real estate is crazily expensive and water is scarce, the city of Irvine sees fit to put a huge grass lawn at their City Hall.

    2. Ken Rhodes

      I live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where land is inexpensive and water is plentiful. Here, many people who live on large properties out in the country lease grazing rights to cattle farmers. Do you suppose the town of Irvine does that, so their City Hall could be profitable?

  4. MindGame

    Hardly blame you for not going into such an oddly uninviting example of civic architecture. The weird, garage-door like openings on the left, the mysterious tiny doorways in the glass facade that recedes away from the public -- there are so many utterly bizarre things going on with this building!

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