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Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings
Architectural historians say success of Brady Corbet’s film could help in fight to protect heritage of divisive style
“The film has generated a lot of interest amongst professionals and lovers of postwar architecture,” said Mary Keating, a co-founder of the Brutiful Action Group, which seeks to defend Birmingham’s brutalist heritage. It looks like a beached ocean-liner, with a stack of immensely long car-parking decks edged with crisply curved concrete panels, whose ribs glint in the (occasional) sunshine, casting graphic shadows across the facade. Featuring in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming, it is a thrilling place of concrete ziggurats rising from rolling green hills, connected by elevated snaking walkways and switchback staircases.
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