How to Make Brutalist Architecture a Little Less Cold

Love it or hate it – the UTS Tower Building is a Brutalist masterpiece. Once just 27 levels of cold, closed classrooms, Gardner Wetherill is now reimagining its interiors.

BY Sam Preston

October 31st, 2016

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