The photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro captures the least-known image of Cairo's architectural legacy by focusing on brutalist structures of the last century. In composing the shots he presents the buildings in a context of abandonment and marginali

John Puttick Associates was awarded the 2021 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize, recognizing its thoughtful and detailed conservation of Preston Bus Station, located in Preston, UK, a civic monument of central importance that serves as a hub

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The rise of a renewed interest in Brutalism seventy years after its birth is reflected both in the growing defense of heritage ascribed to this architectural current – arising from the Modern Movement with Le Corbusier and the use of béton brut (raw

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