Chapotraphouse

Leave it to Amerikkka to ruin brutalism. If the Soviet Union had built this and stuck a statue of Stalin on top of it, y'all would be big fans of it. It just looks evil because the Evil Empire built it. (And because of over a century of "evil empire" aesthetics in fiction being directly taken from actual Soviet brutalism, communism doesn't have an evil empire aesthetic, Western fiction's evil empires have a communist aesthetic, but that's a whole nother struggle session.) Although I will admit, there are ways to do brutalism right and ways to do it wrong, and... there's a reason I tend to like how the Soviets often did it, but hate a lot of Western attempts. Brutalism's one of those things that capitalists just can't ever get right the way communists can, I guess. (Admittedly, not everything the Soviets ever built looked amazing, but overall they have a way better track record at doing brutalism right than any Western nation.)