• Starbuck@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      In case you aren’t joking, brutalist is an architectural style, commonly seen in Washington DC and associated with government buildings. It’s not masochistic, despite brutal being in the name of

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        commonly seen in Washington DC

        Britalism was an architectural movement that started in the post-WW2 UK.

        It became pretty common for ~20 years and was very popular in communist countries due to it being cheap and no frills (commonly associated with western extravagance).

        There are tons of britalism examples all around London.