Brutal Washington

I hang out in DC and take pictures of concrete. I made a book too Also posting on Brutal Boston

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Gonzalo Fonseca, The Sunboat, Reston, Virginia, 1964-1965

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aka Lake Anne! (In Reston, Va)

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FBI building bathed the light of a cool winter sunrise

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Gateway Park, Washington DC. Arlington, VA thanks for the correction @eopederson

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Gorgetown University Library, late Fall, Washington DC

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Health and Human Services Department in late Fall

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Department of Health & Human Services. even in the weak winter sun on a clear day, the concrete  has a bright tone to it.

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Apartments. The brick construction and style are unusual for the area, reminds me of buildings in Europe

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Up the street from the Nat Geo museum, Iw as surprised to see a brick brutalist structure in the area.

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Canadian Embassy, Washington DC

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US Department of Energy, east side

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Somewhere in Chinatown

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Sunderland. something about the negative space makes the building itself more massive

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Sunderland Building. B&W or color is the perpetual battle with brutalism, but when you get some blue skies, cant not do color!

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Johns Hopkins University, Rome Building

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HUD, North side

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Off Kilter. Maybe it’s a metaphor for how the building is literally falling apart; a microcosm of whats happening to Brutalist architecture on a global scale.

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FBI