>>720094107
>that looks like a place you'll get murdered and raped by some genetic experiment in the basement
These buildings are in part intended to look stark, intimidating, austere.
It's a particular kind of mood, it's good at creating that.

BLAME! is I think something a lot of people read that is pretty explicitly a megastructure of mostly brutalist architecture that is actually very engaging visually. Is it pleasant? No not generally, but it's also not trying to be.