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new brutalism

British  

noun

  1. another name for brutalism

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Today architects are developing uneasy qualms as the glass-curtain wall begins to turn whole streets into reflecting canyons and reinforced concrete seems headed toward a kind of new brutalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The result is a rugged interplay of concrete masses and angles�a top example of the architectural style that is sometimes referred to as "the new brutalism."

From Time Magazine Archive

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