Brutalist Architecture

[Meester Pees]

The Fort Ardwick flats were even uglier, mind, like something from Stalin's USSR.

The fort ardwick flats were built by Bison Concrete along with fort Beswick. The building techniques were poor & those flats were not fit for purpose.

Bison Concrete had a number of disgraces up and down the country, including the Hutchinson E area of the Gorbals in Glasgow, blocks of flats known locally as "the dampies". These flats were prone to damp & condensation, but rather than admit there was a problem, a Glasgow city father insisted tenants must've been breathing too hard.

 

[LongsightM13]

The fort ardwick flats were built by Bison Concrete along with fort Beswick. The building techniques were poor & those flats were not fit for purpose.

Bison Concrete had a number of disgraces up and down the country, including the Hutchinson E area of the Gorbals in Glasgow, blocks of flats known locally as "the dampies". These flats were prone to damp & condensation, but rather than admit there was a problem, a Glasgow city father insisted tenants must've been breathing too hard.

I never knew they were built by Bison, a shocking company. Based in Burton, a few of my mates have worked for them in the past and they have a Dickensian attitude to their employees. They are also one of the worst corporate murderers in Britain, an outrageous track record for deaths and maimings on site caused by cutting corners. Fucking scum, but they 'donate' money to whoever is in power, which basically buys them a licence to kill working stiffs with impunity

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I used to work here...

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Fucking horrible building.

That design is very reminiscent of Oscar Niemeyer who essentially designed the City of Brasilia.

I think that we have a lot of truly beautiful buildings being built today, and it is inconceivable that we could have gone from neoclassicism to where we are today without brutalist architecture.

For that reason alone it has been of immeasurable benefit to humanity, ugly or not.

 

[Meester Pees]

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Tower block porn.

 

[stony]

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Tower block porn.

Wey hey, she's back. She was the stuff of bluemoon nightmares in the dim and distant past.

 

[simonr555]

The MI6 headquarters is a strange looking building.

 

[Meester Pees]

The fort ardwick flats were built by Bison Concrete along with fort Beswick. The building techniques were poor & those flats were not fit for purpose.

Bison Concrete had a number of disgraces up and down the country, including the Hutchinson E area of the Gorbals in Glasgow, blocks of flats known locally as "the dampies". These flats were prone to damp & condensation, but rather than admit there was a problem, a Glasgow city father insisted tenants must've been breathing too hard.

I never knew they were built by Bison, a shocking company. Based in Burton, a few of my mates have worked for them in the past and they have a Dickensian attitude to their employees. They are also one of the worst corporate murderers in Britain, an outrageous track record for deaths and maimings on site caused by cutting corners. Fucking scum, but they 'donate' money to whoever is in power, which basically buys them a licence to kill working stiffs with impunity

Doesn't surprise me that bison were/are a bad employer.

 

[stonerblue]

This is where i grew up and lived for 13 years (and this is the re-vamped, done up version !!)

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[york away to this!]

brutalism? - that's a bit harsh.....

 

[Tarlos Kevez]

Two of my "favourites"...

Anyone familiar with Brum city centre will recognise this monstrosity...

And anyone familiar with Runcorn will recognise this monstrosity...

No wonder old Charlie-boy labelled buildings like these "carbunkles".