Most examples of "brutalism" are just excuses for local governments to quickly build cheap housing, it looked terrible and was mostly a failure.

The UK is a prime example of it's wrongful use, but there have been some great examples.

Barbican in London is one of those examples, it's the only one I know which I actually really like.

http://mllongworth.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/barbi...