In some strange way it reminds me of Koyaanisqatsi, now 40 years old (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764584)

I saw it in a movie theater a long time ago, the images where exiting, the music unlike anything I had every heard... It was stimulating and at the same time uncomfortable, I remember I was glad to finally see the credits after 1.5 hours of a bombardment of sound.

Still it made a big impression on me and made me discover a whole new genre of music and composers.

Yeah, I can acknowledge that. Though surveys do show that most people tend to favor classical architecture.

There's also the matter of what you're comparing it to. Some brutalism may not be beautiful, or as beautiful as something classical in form, but the best examples are just interesting in a way that a generic 5-over-2 building isn't.

I think maintenance of materials matters a lot as well. Concrete's aesthetic really depends on it being clean and crack-free.

> Concrete's aesthetic really depends on it being clean and crack-free.

... unless you're into the aesthetic of crumbling urban decay? I mean I should know better than to pick pointless fights on the internet, but you kinda teed it up