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HN commenters point to its detailed article on living in the Nakagin Capsule Tower and its piece on Barcelona's superblocks.
The best one is the Bangladesh National Assembly Building: http://architectuul.com/architecture/national-assembly-building-of-bangladesh
I think a lot of brutalist architecture gets a bad rap because it became so commonplace in the mid 20th century. Just like anything that's done "too-much", it became overdone as lesser and lesser architects created less inspirational designs.
PS. Also loved the old Best stores, with ACTUAL crumbling facades as a self-aware statement of consumerism: http://www.failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/
So good.. you could say they were the Best.
Elevated pedestrian catwalks are a recurring architectural fad. They don't tend to work out very well outside of a few specific areas, though, as pedestrians traffic is most popular in situations where pedestrians also have access to lots of street-level homes and businesses.
Consider further coverage and commentary such as
https://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/streets-in-the-sky-the-urban-idiot/
https://failedarchitecture.com/the-downfall-of-londons-streets-in-the-sky/
https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/campaigns/notopia/notopia-the-fall-of-streets-in-the-sky/10006944.article
A fantastic article from the last time this topic came up: https://failedarchitecture.com/2014/06/a-year-in-the-metabolist-future-of-1972/ It goes over the history of the tower, the experience of the author living there, and has better shots of the interiors featuring a variety of tenants.
(How can you have an article about a building with just one picture of the building?)
Here's a more in-depth article, with lots of photos, of the Tower, written by a couple of architects who lived there for a year:
http://www.failedarchitecture.com/nakagin/
It's also an example of failed city planning! The original Cerdà Plan was considerably more human friendly:
https://www.failedarchitecture.com/behind-four-walls-barcelonas-lost-utopia/
Barcelona’s superblocks ended up a little different than planned: https://failedarchitecture.com/behind-four-walls-barcelonas-lost-utopia/