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Pet Milk Building, Saint Louis, MO,
A.L. Aydelott, 1969.
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The prominent vertical shaft of the Pet Building appeared several years earlier in other cities.
Double Tree Hotel Westport Plaza Area, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Sheraton Hotel, Westport Plaza, Saint
Louis, Missouri.
Marriott Hotel, St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
The next several buildings, built in the 1980's are not technically brutalist because they used brick instead of unfinished concrete. However they have a stylistic similarity to the Pet Milk Building and have a prominent vertical shaft.
HBE Building, Creve Coeur, Missouri, 1983.
In the office park next to the HBE building, there are several similar brick buildings built in the 80's.
The Starbucks at 11464 Olive Boulevard has a significant portion of the exterior in large aggregate concrete that has been painted brown.
While I don't find much brutalist architecture to be pretty, I think it does have an appeal. I like your pictures of St Louis' brutalist building s. A couple more that I think may qualify are the KMOV building downtown, the Wellington Apartment building on Sugar Pines in Florissant and a really odd little structure on New Halls Ferry just north of 270 called the Medical Arts building.
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