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Brutalist architecture.
With their exposed concrete surfaces, the Sirius Apartments
are a good example of brutalist architecture. Reminiscent
of a child's stacked toy blocks, the top few floors of the
building can be seen driving along the southern approach to
the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (At the left, in the background
of this photograph, the very tips of the sails of the Sydney
Opera House are also visible.)
Brutalism
was a style that flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s,
evolving from the modernist architectural movement. The term
is derived from the French béton brut, or
'raw concrete'.
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