Disclosure: I am a big fan of brutalism. I had no idea that there was stuff like this in Paris. I'm almost tempted to go out and tour it - it's beautiful.

In Britain, where I live, there is a general tendency to view older buildings as nicer buildings. Generally this is because only the stuff that's nice enough to keep/protect ends up surviving. This leads me to wonder what will we choose to keep from the 20th century. Which buildings will still be standing in 2500?

Buildings like those in the article make me sad. They are currently in horrifically poor condition after decades of neglect. On top of that, they are very unfashionable, brutalism seemingly suffering a similar fate in France to the UK: association with low-quality housing projects, a mid-century utopia that quickly became a dystopia. In London I am surrounded by treasured buildings nearly all of which had to fight against demolition at some point - for example the gothic hotel at St Pancras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pancras_Renaissance_London.... I wonder, if we hung on to them for long enough for the associations to dissipate, would we come to treasure them?