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Tysso II Hydropower Plant (Norway)
Geir Grung, 1967

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was wondering how brutalist power plant arch teams got governmental approval over these

Tom Wolf wrote about this in "From My House to Bauhaus"

Concrete modernism became a favourite for administrators, mostly because it didn't take creative risks for them to cargo cult the prevailing architectural trend, and most modernism was an easy copy-n-paste from the basic idea...flat square surfaces made of concrete).

And the upshot is that most of it was ugly ugly ugly, and soulless, you know...like enterprise software 😆.  These examples in /brutalist  are the exception, not the norm I reckon.

To me, the miracle is when an architect smuggles quality through the gatekeeping committee, without triggering the creative immune system to reject something "good".

(wow...I must be in a cynical mood)