Many brutalist buildings become almost mythical in their existence; magical alluring places that brutalists and urban explorers alike fantasise about visiting. The Buzludzha Memorial House is such a prime example. I had dreamed of visiting ever since I first heard about it - on an urban exploration message forum in the heady ugly-fonted-scroll-marquee-texted days of the web. As I was eagerly clicking around, salivating over photographs like a kid in a sweet shop, I came upon images of this huge monstrous bowl of concrete - with what looked like a block antennae protruding out from it. What crazy structure was this? It was unlike anything I had ever seen before, certainly architecturally. It resembled a large concrete spaceship. How was this real? And unlike many of these gigantic concrete blobs, it was not standing in an urban or city setting, but of all places, right on top of a mountain in the middle of the balkans. To understand ...