UK Brutalist Architecture
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- craigatkinson
I'm working on a research project centering around Modernist / Brutalist buildings in the UK. I'm interested their use and how they are used. I'm particularly interested in visiting those whose future isn't great - Birmingham City Library for example.
Does anyone have any suggestions of other buildings, or texts worth reading?
- alnove0
There's quite a few in Sheffield: Park Hill flats (Urban splash are redeveloping parts) The old Roxy Disco (O2 academy) Moore street Substation
Some stuff on here might give you some ideas:
http://welivehere.co.uk/prints.h…and an article here:
http://www.articlemagazine.co.uk…
- alnove0
Liking the Preston Bus Station shots btw
- thankyoucraigatkinson
- and thankyou ^craigatkinson
- No probs, hope it was helpful
alnove
- LukeO0
Robin Hood in Poplar should help.
- cannonball19780
Ugliest style of architecture ever
- What about modern plasterboard McMansions? They probably won't even last 50 years to love or hate.MrT
- That's not even architecture.cannonball1978
- A very valid point you have there. I like the concrete blocks.MrT
- It really isn't ugly, and it works very well.craigatkinson
- lvl_130
- ore-gentrification this would have been good!craigatkinson
- *pre*craigatkinson
- vaxorcist0
The middle of Coventry... the Germans Bombed it, then the Architects rebuilt everything in brutalist concrete and brick after the war..
- ebertzjaw0
Cumbernauld town centre...
- Cheers been looking for the name of that place for a while.animatedgif
- BBC had a good doc about this and other brutalist failuresanimatedgif
- My bus used to stop there on the way home from Glasgow. Total shit hole of a place.Melanie
- MrT0
I'm being obvious – The Barbican and South Bank Centre are good examples, but their futures are pretty safe, I would imagine.
- raf0
Funny you should start that thread today, I posted this earlier today:
https://twitter.com/cocones/stat…Something to explore:
http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.…
- splendid0
not sure if its relevant as its gone already but theres alway the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri…
I did a little tribute to it a while back
- see_thru0
This is my favourite building in the world...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir…
Used to catch the bus from here with my nan as a kid.
- maikel0
Wood Green's sopping city is a good example of brutalism with less of a bright future than the Barbican. It is already in quite a derelict condition, and if I'd be you I'll make sure to visit during day time.
Mind you I lived in the area for a while and it is not as bad as it looks...
- maikel0
I forgot adding Alexadra Road Estate; the first time I saw it in winter it reminded me to the Nostromo vaguely - again, I wouldn't walk around there when daylight is gone... just saying.
- 23kon0
In Edinburgh's West Port opposite the new Art College buildings and near "The Pubic Triangle" (3 strip clubs on opposite sides of road to each others).
- flashbender0
American Embassy
- flashbender0
alexandria and ainsworthy estate
- oops, I meant alexandra and ainsworth estate ...
playing it fast and loose with extra letters.flashbender - benefit of this is that when you're done you can wander around ST John's wood or Swiss cottage to see nice old buildingsflashbender
- It is, I love St Johns Wood.mikotondria3
- This is where Juliette Binoche lives in Breaking and Enteringraf
- it's just down the street from my flatflashbender
- I almost moved into one of these. They're really wierd inside, lots of odd spaces where you can only store random stuffProjectile
- oops, I meant alexandra and ainsworth estate ...
