[I still care]

Funny, it looks just like all the college buildings I attended in the 70's.

If the preservationists like the style so much, I'm sure there are plenty of other places they can go stare at.

[dodger]

BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE ... what puff, nonsense & ugliness!

[Cicero]

I really, really hate these Internation Style buildings.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Looks like nothing so much as a military bunker. Needs artillery—incoming.

[fso301]

Title had me thinking this was an article about hillary

[dighton]

A Chicago landmark, which some might call Church of Christ, Woofer.

[Socratic]

Is it insured? (Hint, hint).

[DeweyCA]

More and more, people don’t have control over their property. Kelo says that the government can take it away from you and sell to private firms, and in this case, a quasi-governmental group tells a church that they can’t get rid of a building that they can no longer afford. That’s just not right. If the preservationist group wants to keep the ugly building, then they should buy it at market value from the church IF the church wants to sell to them.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Kirkpatrick said without significant changes, his congregation may not be able to stay in the neighborhood they've occupied for more than 100 years. The cumbersome heating system is falling apart, Grier said, and a new one could cost as much as the building itself. The concrete that has started falling off the building is also expensive to fix. The elevator doesn't work, and changing light bulbs alone costs between $4,000 and $8,000 to erect the necessary scaffolding.

Looks like Brutalism was designed to be a gift that kept on giving. Just hope the preservation perps don't try the environmental-impact-to-pigeons habitat angle.

[SuziQ]

Berk said the church meets the landmark designation criteria in that it was created by a master craftsman --architect Araldo Cossutta worked with Pei's firm -- and exemplifies distinguishing characteristics of architecture.

From the looks of that building, Cossutta studied at the B. U. (BUTT UGLY) School of Architecture.

[uglybiker]

Neighborhood preservationists, meanwhile, see a living testament to the type of 1970s architectural ``brutalism'' championed by I.M. Pei and others. It's so distinct, they say, that it should be passed on to future generations.

Fine. If this bunch likes it so much, then they can cough up some cash and buy the church out.

[Fishrrman]

My answer: just plain ugly.

If there is a "Soviet school of architecture", this one fits.

It's about as appealing as Her Heinous' rear end! :)

- John

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Sonoma State University (local to us here in Northern Cal) has several buildings in the “brutalism” style, and they are the ugliest damn things you’ve ever seen. They look like Soviet prisons. The only thing that makes the campus attractive is the very nice landscaping and the new Charlies Schultz library, which is quite nice. But those brutalist buildings ... ugh!

[mkjessup]

Here, just a little touchup:

[sergeantdave]

Reminds me of a large version of a Japanese bunker on Iwo Jima. Give it to the Marines.