Brutalist architecture

This is southampton Guildhall with the clock tower poking over the top in the background. Southampton has a lot of brutalist architecture, so named not because it is brutal in appearance (though it is rather) but from the French word for ‘raw’, referring to raw concrete. The style was popular from the 1950s to 1970s. As Southampton was rebuilt after the war, having experienced considerable bombing, much of it is in this style.