File:North Building - LEnfant Plaza - Washington DC - Brutalist detail.JPG

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English: Detail of the Brutalist concrete facade of the North Building at L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., in the United States. L'Enfant Plaza and L'Enfant Promenade were designed by I. M. Pei for developer William Zeckendorf in the early 1960s. Pei's partner, Araldo Cossutta, designed the North Building and South Building, two office buildings which border the plaza. These were constructed in the late 1960s. Both buildings are Modernist in style. However, they incorporate Brutalism into portions of the facades. "Brut" is a French word meaning "unfinished," and by the 1960s concrete molding and forming techniques had progressed to the point where some architects felt concrete no longer needed to be polished. This type of unpolished concrete was known as "Brutalism."
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