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Originally Posted by mdiederi
Why do they have to be so brutalist? Not that there's anything wrong with brutalism, but a lot of these aren't the good kind of brutalism, they're haphazardly brutalist in nature. And why do they have to be downtown, why can't they be in industrial zones?
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seems to be an international thing.
this bizarre brutalist building, near Porto Alegre´s airport, is the Banco do Brasil Data Processing Center for the South Region.
built in the 80s
here, at GoogleMaps/Streetview
http://goo.gl/maps/M2rXW
streetview: from this angle, we can see it´s deceiving... all the floors have windows. The two top floors are not really clad with those concrete slabs... the concrete slabs seem to function as "brise soleils", because from below we can see there is a spacement of about 1 meter between the concrete slabs and the windows behind them
http://goo.gl/maps/IR4Aq