Brutalist Architecture

[pinkwheeltrim]

I'm a big fan of this much maligned form of architecture and wish we weren't so keen to knock buildings of this type down.


Anyone else a fan,and what are your favourites(past or present)?

Here are some of mine.......


Shipley Market Hall and clock tower, West Yorkshire

Park Hill Flats Sheffield

The Bradford and Bingley Building,Bingley West Yorkshire

Nelson Old Bus Station,Lancashire. I once spent two nights sleeping in here so became rather fond of it.

And finally..


The sadly missed Crescents in Hulme!

 

[burning blue soul]

somethings are just best left unbuilt mate!!

 

[The Silver Surfer]

While some look striking I'd say some are demolished because they are not practical - the flats look like a muggers haven.

Having said that most are very ugly and drab looking.

I think Manchester City Centre is getting it just right re the archetecture, old and new with some very imaginative building thrown in to he mix certainly with the flats round deansgate.

 

[crizack]

 

[Big G]

The builings IMO depict the kind of era the 70's and 80's were, drab and grey.
Modern architecture is like lego, bobbins IMO,
I like older builings, For example the detail in the Town Hall is brilliant, The features on the Midland hotel, much more appealling than say Beetham tower.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

 

[Lucky Toma]

Not a fan of it myself Pinky but here's my local council offices....

 

[cockneycarparkm32]

I quite like the look of the toast rack near Fallowfield on the campus

 

[bluemoonmatt]

At night that horrible fucking thing in Shipley gets lit up purple, its like they're proud of the fucking monstrosity.

 

[Ducado]

Bloody awful!

Blighted many of our towns and cities, a huge experiment by people who were more interested in making a statement than piratical buildings. Ugly, hard to maintain, poorly built I could go on.

Thankfully most of it is been torn down