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colorful sculpture Le Grand Soir on view at MoMA PS1
“The Big Night”

Yto Barrada’s Le Grand Soir at MoMA PS1 is a concrete manifesto about Moroccan acrobatics, postcolonial Brutalism, and so much more

Set in Stone

Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross – Blue Shield building declared local landmark by Boston Landmarks Commission

Where Old Meets New

Perkins&Will’s D.B. Weldon Library revitalization transforms a Brutalist classic by John Andrews in Ontario

Reskinning a Classic

Work by Bruner/Cott begins at Harvard on a more sustainable and accessible Gund Hall

Berkeley Brut

In Berkeley, one of Louis Kahn’s last designs, the Flora Lamson Hewlett Building, has been renovated by Russell Architects

City of Trees

DLR Group reclads SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center with a perforated aluminum scrim

A Second Act

At the Southern Utah Museum of Art for Brutal D.C. Brooks + Scarpa, Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, and others reimagine Brutalism in the nation’s capital

In Good Company

At Rivermark, Bruner/Cott doesn’t shy away from adding color to Cambridge’s historic, Brutalist shoreline

For All the Haters

Boston City Hall has been recommended by the municipal government for landmark status

Sound the Alarms!

SVP Stadium in Ahmedabad, India by Charles Correa and Mahendra Raj is under threat

Change of Hands

Sotheby’s will move its New York headquarters into the Breuer Building

hurley building redevelopment
Renovating Rudolph

Early renderings of the Hurley Building’s transformation in Boston invite questions about legacy, transparency, and public process

hurley building redevelopment
A New Lease on Life

Massachusetts announces Paul Rudolph’s Hurley Building will be “transformed” as part of mixed-use redevelopment

archival photo showing exterior of a government building designed by paul rudolph
Big Prey

Why can’t Paul Rudolph’s buildings catch a break?

rendering of a sphere covered in birdhouses, the biosphere
It's For The Birds

Daily digest: BIG unveils a hotel covered in birdhouses, the Eiffel Tower gets even taller, and more

exterior view of a brutalist arts center with a sign reading Barbican Centre
In the Can

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Adjaye Associates, BIG and more shortlisted for Barbican Centre revamp

exterior of a brutalist library building in atlanta
Let There Be Light

Cooper Carry reveals an expansive refresh of Marcel Breuer’s Atlanta Central Library

A still from the 2021 dune film of a young man in front of a massive golden bas relief of a worm god
Desert Power

Designing Dune required mining the past to build humanity’s future

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