Newry Cathedral
Newry Cathedral, designed by architect Thomas Duff and completed in 1829, was Ireland’s first Catholic cathedral to open after Catholic Emancipation. Built from local granite on Newry’s Main Street.
Grunewald Tower
A Victorian observation tower built in 1897–99 in Berlin’s Grunewald forest, offering views across the Havel from a 36-metre viewing platform.
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.