Brutalism

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.

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.