From London’s Barbican to Berlin’s Corbusierhaus, urban concrete edifices continue to inspire us – whether they be art spaces, apartment blocks or even car parks

Modernist architecture enthusiasts hope The Brutalist, the film nominated for 10 Oscars about a fictional architect, will help revive interest in 20th-century brutalist heritage – and stimulate people to protect buildings under threat from demolition.

Hundreds of people got in touch with the Guardian to share their most-loved structures from the brutalist era, which saw its UK heyday roughly from the 1950s to 1970s.