Brutalist architecture

Examples of some crazy looking abandoned brutalist architecture in and around Berlin.

Buzludzha!

Buzludzha!

A strange UFO perches on a mountaintop in deepest darkest Bulgaria. Buzludzha, the country’s former communist party HQ, has to be seen to be believed.

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Bierpinsel

Bierpinsel

Perhaps the weirdest of Berlin’s buildings, abandoned or not, is the hideously attractive Bierpinsel in Steglitz. It sticks out like a walrus in a tutu.

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Hygiene Institute

Hygiene Institute

The Hygiene Institute is a brutalist architectural marvel. Its twisted forms allude to the work carried out inside the research facility.

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Tegel Airport

Tegel Airport

Tegel Airport (TXL), was formerly Germany’s fourth busiest airport with more than 24 million passengers in 2019. Abandoned Nov. 8, 2020.

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Mouse Bunker

Mouse Bunker

The “mouse bunker” animal-testing facility squats beside the Teltow Canal like a monstrous brutalist toad-tank, long blue turrets pointing every direction.

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Cité Foch shopping center

Cité Foch shopping center

Cité Foch’s closing down sale must have been something else. Everything must go! In the end, even the shopping center, cinema and leisure center had to go.

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