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A 2018-2019 concept by <n>Basis</n> for the <n>Chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky</n> in Kolomna, Russia.

<n>Giraffe</n>s under the <n>Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway</n> in <n>Nairobi National Park</n>. Photo by <n>Baz Ratner</n>, 2020.

Aerial view of <n>Nouakchott</n>, <n>Mauritania</n>, 1987.

The <n>Sulayman-Too Museum</n> in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, an example of <n>Soviet Modernist</n> architecture. Photo by <n>Arseniy Kotov</n>.

Architectural model for Casa de vacaciones en La Manzanilla, 1979, by <n>Andrés Casillas de Alba</n>.

Architectural rendering by <n>Jason Campbell Studio</n>.

<n>Blocks of Flats in Residential Area C 27</n> in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1973. Designed by <n>S. Adylov</n>, <n>I. Koptelova</n>, and <n>G. Korobovtsev</n>.

The <n>Michigan Theater</n> in Detroit, an <n>Italian Renaissance</n>-style building from 1926, repurposed as a parking garage. Photo by <n>Sean Hemmerle</n>.

The <n>Lego House</n> in Babruysk, Belarus, a <n>Soviet Modernist</n> building designed by architect <n>Vladimir Galushchenko</n> in 1981.

The <n>Maison Hermès</n> flagship store in Tokyo, designed by architect <n>Renzo Piano</n> in 2001.

The <n>Okinawa Prefectural Museum</n> by <n>Ishimoto Architectural & Engineering Firm</n>. Photo by <n>Paul Tulett</n>.

<n>Oleg Vronsky</n>'s <n>Romanita building</n>, a <n>Soviet Modernist</n> residential tower in Chisinau, Moldova.

A photomanipulation from the <n>Transition</n> series by artist <n>Lauren Marsolier</n>.

An aerial view of <n>Paris</n>, <n>France</n>, with the <n>Eiffel Tower</n> in the distance.

The <n>Seagram Building</n> in New York, designed by <n>Ludwig Mies van der Rohe</n> and <n>Philip Johnson</n> in 1958.

<n>Brutalist</n> water tower in Elbeuf, France. Photo by <n>Eric Tabuchi</n> and <n>Nelly Monnier</n>.

<n>Andres Tarto</n>'s photograph of the <n>Socialist Modernist</n> <n>Annelinn micro-district</n> in Tartu, Estonia.

<n>Spiked</n>, an inflatable installation by artist <n>Steve Messam</n> at the <n>Ionic Temple, Rievaulx Terrace</n>, 2015.

The <n>Sino-French Science Park Church</n> (2019) by <n>Shanghai Dachuan Architects</n>. Photo by <n>Arch-Exist Photography</n>.

The <n>Brutalist</n>-style <n>National Historical and Archaeological Museum Complex Sulayman</n> in Kyrgyzstan. Photo by <n>Коля Царев</n>.

An AI-generated image of a conceptual <n>McDonald's</n> in the <n>Brutalist</n> style.

Sunbathing on a rooftop in <n>East Germany</n>, 1982. Photo by <n>Manfred Griebsch</n>.

AI-generated architectural concept <n>Vision Oslo</n> by designer <n>Marius Troy</n>.

A <n>Brutalist</n> <n>Dam tunnel</n> outside Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

The <n>Lenin Monument</n> by <n>Nikolai Tomski</n> at Leninplatz in East Berlin, photographed in 1979.

Dishy, a digital artwork by <n>Till Nowak</n>.

An aerial view of <n>Pulau Bungin</n> in Indonesia. Photo by <n>Jord Hammond</n>.

The <n>Brutalist</n> <n>Amanauz hotel</n> in Dombay, abandoned in 1985. Photo by <n>Frédéric Chaubin</n>.

The <n>Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam</n> in Russia, a <n>Socialist Modernist</n> work by the <n>Hydroproject institute</n>.