Monolithic Concrete

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A wide-angle black and white shot of brutalist architecture under an overcast sky. Three monolithic concrete high-rise buildings dominate the frame, standing tall against the cloudy sky. The first building on the left is the tallest and most prominent, featuring a flat, unornamented facade with a few small, square windows and recessed vertical balconies running down its center. Towards the bottom, this building connects to a lower, elongated concrete structure that features a series of repeating pillars forming a colonnade. This horizontal structure extends off the left of the frame and connects further to the other two high-rise buildings, which appear progressively shorter and further back. These buildings share the same stark, unadorned concrete aesthetic as the first. In the foreground, a dark strip of road runs diagonally from the bottom left towards the right, separating a narrow strip of dark grass on the roadside from a larger expanse of dark grass on the right. Sparse, leafless trees and a few streetlights dot the landscape along the road and grass. The overall mood is stark, austere, and somewhat desolate.