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If you don't know, the area around that building is surrounded by dismay. The owners could pump a billion with a B into this building... but what about everything around it??? Good luck.

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Look up rattlesnake acres in New Mexico, the land was cleared was larger than the 3 largest cities in New Mexico. They even sold 139000 lots and never developed any.

Overhaul for homeless

Anything that is built in China will fail poor quality of materials that don’t last!

None of them are bealtiful. Exotic? Yes, not bealtiful

Indiana's highway bridge that went to nowhere.

Why Say Government when it was Republicans That Funded it!

Brutalist... certainly. But beautiful??!! I hope we still are a majority of people who have a higher idea of beauty.

Come on man! Where is all Balkans!? former Yugoslavia, Romania!?

It would be Nice to have a closer look,some interior, maby. Looking at the mansion from space doesn't give much information.

Wtf 3 million dollars!? Imagine how much money u could make on this building from rent alone

Send as many homeless people as possible to get them housed.

All mega mansions are failures.

I really appreciate the way you explained each one.

It’s in downtown St. Louis….. not surprised. lol

The MOX project at Savanna River Site in SC

there are probably hundreds or even more failed housing projects in china alone, each one of them bigger than most listed here, just an example, Forest City, Johor in Malaysia, built by a chinese company.

I figured beautiful brutalist buildings would be a very short video. However, you did find some nifty buildings.

These buildings are all hideous, void of inspiration and beyond basic. They also lead to depression.

If you like brutalism buildings I can suggest you 2 in Argentina from Clorindo Testa, the "Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno" and the "Banco de Londres y América del Sur" now "Banco Hipotecario".

3:58 BEHOLD! The flying spaghetti monster appears!! He doth touch us with His noodley goodness! R’Amen

I'D SAY IT'S CALLED, CORONVIRUS "PANDEMIC" AND JOBS GOING OVERSEAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Torres Blancas in Madrid is definitely the best brutal building in Europe

Those are not beautiful at all

Absolutely love the reno/rehab/reuse mindset. There are so many structures we could absolutely NOT replicate today. Why destroy them? Let's just repurpose them. Everyone's happy!

5:21 compared to the IKEA it looks pretty good

7:25 looks like my housing layouts in aoe2

Turkey is extremely strong economically and geopolitically now. Property in Istanbul is crazy expensive. $400k is the value where you get citizenship. It's one of those type deals. The problem is the Turkish passport is not so strong, and people who can afford this development are already well established in Turkey. It's so weird that they build these things without golf courses though. Foreigners aren't interested in Turkish baths or such density without really good amenities. The concept is working elsewhere, although planning is not really a strongpoint of Turkey. They just kind of build things, and as the last tragic quakes showed, not always to the best of standards.

How does fire destroy stone buildings?

There is no such thing as beautiful modernism od butalusm...that is like saying some dog droppings are more pleasing than others. Pull them all down and learn a thing or two about culture than wet dreaming over ticky tacky rubbish

First time (consciously) experiencing a brutalist building was the church in Nazareth. Shocking and depressing at the same time. I have been to churches, mosques, synagogues, temples from many varieties of religion, from many centuries, in many countries. ALL signaling light, beauty and glory to share with you, if you join. The church in Nazareth just signals "You are much smaller than you thought. Get out of here, before I crush you!" Somebody abused the political weakness of the times in the area to plant it in total disregard of people living there.

I bet some six-figure "consultants" made out GREAT on all of these projects.

Brutalist buildings get their beauty from the landscaping and art placed in it. the ugliness of the building lets the beauty of the pieces and plants stand out

Maybe Trump will buy it

Fill them with ai computer servers

I'm surprised these qualify as 'brutalist'. Most brutalist is pretty darned brutal. These are actually...... less ugly. Brutalist usually looks like bomb shelters or military fortifications.

Just found your channel and really enjoy your take on the built and almost-built environment, including nuclear plants that appear to be brutalism at its best. Maybe a little off your track, but Columbus is a small Indiana town that was named America's 6th Most Architecturally Important City by the AIA in 2012. J. Irwin Miller, chairman of Cummins Engine Co., established a program that brought in international superstars to fill this town of 50,000 with amazing stuff. Thanks again for your always-interesting essays.

Turn it in residential, retail, and other mixed use.

Ugh.

Very interesting and illuminating video - thank you! This is why America's cities lack so much grace, and why their centers seldom exhibit even the relatively short history we have a nation. Our cities simply recycle themselves, driven on by commercialism and development pressure. It's good that a preservation movement got started in the 1950's and 1960's - but the defeats continue to this day. Money talks, and the architectural world seem smitten with fashion. Sometimes I wonder if there is even a national will to preserve architectural monuments, or if this will always be how approach our great buildings - as objects to be used and then discarded rather than preserved and studied as part of our culture.

The 60s seem to have been a time for demolition worldwide. Here in Melbourne, Australia, we lost many grand buildings that were replaced by eyesores. Now, many of the eyesores have been replaced by glass and steel monoliths. Such a lack of vision .

You forgot Ponte City in Johannesburg, one of the most extreme examples-

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Wow!

Water supply...

The renovation prices to make this into a residential place would be astonishing for anyone who doesn't understand

Sunny Hills, Florida between Panama City and Chipley is another colossal bust. Heck, the lots are cheap today but homeowners insurance is next to impossible to get.

No mention of Battersea Power Station used as Pink Floyd's "Animals" iconic album cover is a big oversight.

Almost every government project could be on this list