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Answer by Walt Howard for What's the best word to describe the harsh,...

utilitarian, unadorned, plain, grey, gloomy, glum, washed-out, tragic, bunker, fortress, slapped-together, uninviting, imposing, unwashed, weathered, armored, abandoned, run-down, neglected,...

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Answer by Binary Worrier for What's the best word to describe the harsh,...

I'm not sure if it's a colloquialism local to Ireland, but this is what we would call "Institutional".That is having a no-frills functional design, built cheaply disregarding any care for how it looks,...

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Answer by Edwin Buck for What's the best word to describe the harsh,...

This building has a specific architecture related to it. The word is brutalist.Brutalist architecture was a design style that first used concrete in large buildings, where the concrete forms created...

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Answer by cigien for What's the best word to describe the harsh, unaesthetic...

An appropriate word would be austerestern and cold in appearance or mannermarkedly simple or unadornedAn austere building is one that is simple, without any fancy adornments, and gives the sense of...

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What's the best word to describe the harsh, unaesthetic exterior of a building?

Take the image of this building for instance, a good percentage of people would say that it's not pleasant to look at. No colorful tiles, no fancy arcs. In short, it's "harsh-looking." I'm looking for...

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