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The Orlando Public Library is a little too brutalist for my taste, but is an interesting example of board-formed concrete:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County_Library_System#/...

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Yeah a big downside of concrete construction seems to be that a significant proportion of builders/architects just say "fuck it, we'll leave the bare concrete exposed" and you end up with monstrosities like that.

They're not saying "fuck it", it's a deliberate aesthetic.

Not all bare concrete construction is a brutalist nightmare, look up Tadao Ando's work.

This is pretty much the first thing that came up when I searched for him:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPq8IzhBMH8PJBuKcVS...

ngl I think it looks pretty good. Way more visual interest than I expected

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