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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jem Bartholomew

After The Brutalist: our readers name their favourite brutalist buildings

Preston bus station
Preston bus station now has Grade II-listed status. Photograph: Paul Melling/Alamy

Modernist architecture enthusiasts hope The Brutalist, the film nominated for 10 Oscars about a fictional architect, will help revive interest in 20th-century brutalist heritage – and stimulate people to protect buildings under threat from demolition.

Hundreds of people got in touch with the Guardian to share their most-loved structures from the brutalist era, which saw its UK heyday roughly from the 1950s to 1970s.

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