Brutalism

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.