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This Instagram Account Shares Awe-Inspiring Pics Of Brutalist Buildings Combined With Enormous Cats

If you love architecture, you love history and you also love cats, this post is right up your street! If you don't, giving it a try won't hurt either. It's never late to learn about some pretty cool things on our lovely planet.
Directed by three Master of Architecture students at the University at Buffalo, New York - Emily Battaglia, Madelaine Ong and Michaela Senay - Cats of Brutalism is an inspiring project that shares captivating pictures of brutalist buildings with one or two giant cats around with the aim of "introducing warmth, softness, and whimsy to the often-perceived-as cold, hard, and severe forms of brutalism" (as they introduced on their website).
"As we looked more into the style of brutalism we identified the style to be under-represented. In addressing the challenge this posed, we set out to develop a project that pressed on this style, period, and its association, not only as a means of design and social commentary, but as a way to engage the broader public," they wrote.
Please visit Cats Of Brutalism's Instagram or website for more pictures of countless impressive brutalist buildings and a cute cat. But before you do so, check out some of their most recent works right here below:

#1. Vallaincourt Fountain (1971) | Armand Vaillancourt | San Francisco, California

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#2. Manors Car Park (1963) | Wilfred Burns | Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

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#3. Synagogue, Officers Training School (1968) | Zvi Hecker and Alfred Neuman | Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

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#4. Riverside Plaza (1973) | Ralph Rapson | Minneapolis, Minnesota

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#5. Water Tower, Leudelange (2008) | SchemelWirtz | Leudelange, Luxemburg

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#6. Atlantic Pavilion Sports Center (2018) | Valdemar Coutinho | Viana do Castelo, Portugal

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#7. Pearl Bank Apartments (1976-2020) | Tan Cheng Siong, Archurban Architects Planners | Outram, Singapore

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#8. Mummers Theater (1970-2014) | John MacLane Johansen | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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#9. Steinkirchen Cazis (Stone Church) (1996) | Werner Schmidt | Cazis, Switzerland

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#10. Monument of National Heroes (2002) | Unknown | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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#11. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1959) | Frank Lloyd Wright | New York, New York

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#12. Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) | Kisho Kurokawa | Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan

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#13. Mausoleum of the Martyrdom of Polish Villages (2016) | Nizio Design International | Michniów, Poland

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#14. Ferdowsi Museum (1968) | Houshang Seyhoun | Tus, Iran

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#15. Christian Science Center (1970) | PEI Cobb Freed & Partners | Boston, Massachusetts

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#16. Palais de Justice de Lille (1968) | Jean Willerval and André Lagarde | Lille, France

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#17. Bradfield Hall (1969) | Ulrich Franzen | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

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 #18. Divine Word Seminary Chapel, Nanzan University (1966) | Antonin Raymond | Nagoya, Japan

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#19. Clifton Cathedral (1973) - by Ronald J. Weeks, Frederick S. Jennett, and Antoni Poremba | Bristol, United Kingdom

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#20. Kornhauser Health Sciences Library (1970) - by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates | Louisville, Kentucky

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#21. Art and Architecture Building (1970) | Edwards & Daniels (EDA) | Salt Lake City, Utah

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#22. Middle East Technical University (1960) | Behruz and Altuğ Çinici | Ankara, Turkey

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