&gt; then not putting in the money necessary to maintain them.<p>I think this is key.  Brutalist architecture tends to weather well <i>on the outside</i>.  Steel reinforced concrete needs maintenance just like everything else, but possible not on the same schedule, and not always of the same type.  I think there&#x27;s a reinforced loop of politicians not wanting to spend money maintaining these large, &quot;ugly&quot; (in appearance and purpose) structures, and getting away with that for a while, possibly for longer than their term.  Then they start degrading from neglect, and now they are <i>truly</i> ugly,both in appearance in in what has happened to the people that live there (through more neglect).