Brutalist buildings may be growing in popularity, but it's not difficult to find critics: Prince Charles has allegedly described Brutalist buildings as "piles of concrete"; The Barbican may be loved by some Londoners and concrete connoisseurs, but in an article for the City Journal, writer and critic Theodore Dalrymple describes it as "a hideous complex of buildings, built in the 1960s". He says its "concrete brutalism seems designed to overawe, humiliate, and confuse any human being unfortunate enough to try to find his way in it", adding that it was surely inspired by Corbusier's "particular style of soulless architecture".
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