Top 10 brutalists stadiums in the world There are San Siro and the Latinos ones, but even a Cambodian one

Taking a walk in Piazza Duomo in Milan and moving towards Piazza Diaz it is difficult not to see the antennas and the green roof of the Velasca Tower, the first skyscraper that arose in Milan, in 1954. That skyscraper is one of the greatest examples of Brutalism, an architectural movement born in the 1940s in certain territories of Eastern Europe and then developed until the seventies all over the world, with important examples also in South America and Italy. 

The stadiums, as monumental creatures and locus perfect for this type of architecture, have re-enter Brutalism with very spectacular examples, but over the years they have been lost. In fact, especially in South America, many plants built during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s were modernized with new technologies and their iconic cement was covered (or replaced) by more sustainable and modern materials, redesigning the stadium figure according to postmodern principles and scanning its veins of pipes, bricks and lime. But there are still many examples, and these are the top ten. 

 

Estádio Municipal de Braga

Location: Braga, Portogallo 

Year of inauguration: 2002

Architect: Edoardo Souto de Moura

 

Used mainly for rugby and already known as the Toyota Stadium, the Bloemfontaine Free State was modernised a decade ago for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The roodt architects' studio has maintained its original structure (built in 1955) by enhancing the concave space behind the stands, with concrete walkways - elbow-to-elbow - used as runoff channels from the stands. In addition to the World Cup, football for the Free State Stadium also means Bloemfontaine Celtics, the soccer team of the South African city.