Today, the image of Eastern Europe is largely based on these huge concrete blocks of low-cost housing, which generally seem old-fashioned and depressing. This legacy of the former Soviet Union can be ...

Brutalist architecture is a style of building design developed in the 1950s in the United Kingdom following World War II. With an emphasis on construction and raw materials, the aesthetic evolved as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover creative people, places and projects around the world. Hulking raw concrete, impossibly rigid lines and an undeniable ...

Omnipresent plattenbau housing estates, monumental hochhäuser, cosmic milk bars; the post-war East Germany was rebuilt on concrete foundations to stand for the new modernity and shape the unique and ...

After World War II, the Franco-Swiss architect who went by the name of Le Corbusier erected brazenly expressionistic buildings, including an 18-floor Marseilles housing project and a hilltop ...