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by msla 1117 days ago
Examples of Brutalism:

Hill of the Buddha, Sapporo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_the_Buddha

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_Mary_of_the...

Spomenik Memorials, Former Yugoslavia:

https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/

None of those are ugly.

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My eyes, the goggles, they do nothing!

While those are not hideous, they're hardly anything to write home about, much less call beautiful either. Compare them with a traditional budhist shrine, national monument, or church, and they're seen as the regression to ideology and "architect as god" arbitrariness that they are.