[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Beauty" -- ugliest building material ever! It belongs in prestressed floors and bridge abutments.

Here is concrete "Brutalism" at its finest going up in Chicago right now as a grand testament to our greatest and most egotistical president ever...

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One of the earliest reinforced concrete buildings constructed in the United States was the Pacific Coast Borax Company's refinery in Alameda, California, designed by Ernest L. Ransome and built in 1893. It was the first to use ribbed floor construction as well as concrete columns.

It should have stayed a structural material in floors and columns then covered with something beautiful.

[ClearCase_guy]

Brutalist architecture is just amazing. It’s an excellent way to tell the world that you are now living under a Stalinist dictatorship and all the good times are in the past. Boston has a fair amount of the stuff.

[Dr. Sivana]

Well, it is within a short walk to the similarly brutalizt Regenstein Library, with the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House and some Gothic stuff in between. Not to mention Pick Hall which isn’t even brutalist. Ida Noyes and Harper must be embarrased to share the same neighborhood.

[xoxox]

looks like a 70’s Catholic church.

[pax_et_bonum]

Well, at least the trees are beautiful.

[Bullish]

Jeeze, that looks like a whacked out missile silo. Abysmal, just like Obama's pretend presidency.

[GOPJ]

The only standing building left after Hiroshima was A-bombed wasn’t really a building - - it was a bank vault build with concrete and rebar... reinforced concrete.

That’s a good use for concrete. Bank vaults near World War III targets.

And swimming pools. And bridges. And some parking garages... that’s about it. Everything else is like painting with ugly.

[TexasKamaAina]

It’s not the material it’s what is done with it. That’s what I learned from reading the full article.