Sirius Building
A striking Brutalist apartment complex in Sydney’s The Rocks, designed by Tao Gofers (1978–79) to house displaced public tenants and later recognised as enduring Australian architecture.
Hutchesontown C
A Brutalist housing scheme by Sir Basil Spence in Glasgow, hailed by modernists but plagued by damp and infestations. Demolished in 1993.
St Andrew House
A 71-metre modernist office tower completed in 1964, St Andrew House now operates as a budget hotel on Glasgow’s West Nile Street—a pragmatic reinvention of one of the city’s signature mid-century high-rises.
Glenkerry House
A 14-storey Brutalist housing block in Poplar, London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger’s studio and completed in 1977. Run as an innovative self-managed housing co-operative since 1979.
Barbican Estate
A landmark residential complex of around 2,000 homes in central London, the Barbican Estate stands as a defining example of British brutalist architecture.
Robarts Library
Toronto’s striking brutalist landmark of 1973 houses over 4.5 million books in a monumental geometric tower, anchoring the University of Toronto’s main research library complex.
Hayward Gallery
A contemporary art gallery at the heart of the Southbank Centre, London’s major arts complex on the Thames’s south bank.
Barbican Centre
A landmark performing arts centre opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982, the Barbican is home to major orchestras and the Royal Shakespeare Company, renowned for its boldly sculptural brutalist architecture.
St David’s Hall
Wales’s national concert hall in Cardiff, hosting world-class classical music, opera, and diverse performing arts in the city centre.
Herlev Hospital
Denmark’s tallest building from 1976 to 2022, Herlev Hospital is a modernist masterpiece in concrete and glass designed by Gehrdt Bornebusch, now a teaching facility near Copenhagen.