Brutalism

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.