brutalist

SAN JOSE — A panel of state judges has backed the city of San Jose’s decision to clear the way for a “brutalist” building on a prime site to be bulldozed as part of the creation of a huge downtown tech campus. The state Court of Appeal, in…

Brutalism sprang from utopian socialist ideas around liberating the workers. But I reckon if the contemporary Labor Party was a building it would be less a brutalist monument than a gleaming CBD tower in which we see ourselves reflected.…