The Birmingham library is a Brutalist peice of architecture. One of Brutalist architectures main charactoristics is the use of conctrete in thre design. This type of architecture has often been critisised as being ugly.
The choice of this design for Birmingham’s library infers the idealist approach the city had at the time. As ever with the constantly changing nature of Birmingham, this movement was soon replaced and the superseded brutalist typology became increasingly disliked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
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