That complex is made up of two long strips of apartment buildings on opposite sides of a garden and helped popularize the concept of "streets in the sky."
The architects of a work in this style called it a failure because the crime level in its neighborhood prevented it from realizing its potential. That complex is made up of two long strips of apartment buildings on opposite sides of a garden and helped popularize the concept of "streets in the sky." The Robin Hood Gardens were designed in this style by Alison and Peter Smithson. A long, inverted ziggurat design was used for a building in this style that sits in front of a large brick plaza in Boston. It's not Futurism, but William Pereira designed a building in this style with uninterrupted windows lining the cantilevered terraced levels, which are widest at the (*) middle floors. That building, located at UCSD, is the Geisel Library. A sprawling complex of gray cubes that jut out of the main structure was designed in this style by Moshe Safdie for Montreal's Expo 67. For 10 points, name this architectural style characterized by rectangular forms, which gets its name from the French for "raw concrete."
The architects of a work in this style called it a failure because the crime level in its neighborhood prevented it from realizing its potential.
Brutalism 