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Brutalist buildings are often described as ‘concrete monstrosities’ – why are people so scared of them? Jonathan Meades says the answer lies in “a lack of appetite for sublimity, fear of being afraid or overawed, a mistrust of might, despisal of intellectual rigour [and] impatience with anything that might be deemed difficult.”

Each year thousands of Brutalist buildings around the world are demolished – in Britain alone, important examples such as the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, Trinity Square in Gateshead and the Greyfriars bus station in Northampton have recently been razed. Meades suggests the most powerful legacy of the age of Brutalism is the reaction against it.

Episode 2 of Bunkers and Brutalism is on BBC World News on 29 and 30 August 2015.

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