What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[Glow worm]

Another good choice - spent three happy years in its vicinity and a quite a few happy evenings within its walls

Same here (1987-90). It certainly is a superb part of the world. Absolutely loved it there.

 

[Melvil]

I think they're great from that angle, but seen from the back as you approach them from the main UEA campus area they are hideous, hideous, a gloomy canyon of dank, stained unredeemed concrete.

Maybe, but used to go out with a girl at UEA and remember the nice communal kitchens and the great floor to ceiling windows looking out over the lake. Great buildings from the inside, I thought!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Our old Town hall.

I'm waiting for a couple of works to be finished, they could be quite interesting from a modernist point of view.

 

[robjh]

Maybe, but used to go out with a girl at UEA and remember the nice communal kitchens and the great floor to ceiling windows looking out over the lake. Great buildings from the inside, I thought!

I'd agree with that entirely (even to the point of going out with a girl at UEA, though I expect not the same one). But to get to the lovely inside though you still had to cross those windswept aerial walkways above that stained grey abyss.

To prove that I really do like those buildings, here is another, recent, view, with the university library behind

 

[slowmotion]

Not brutalist, but modernist - Peckham Library, a brilliant building!

The half dozen acrow props are a nice touch. Were the put in during the defects liability period?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

[QUOTE 3509853, member: 9609"]everyone seems to be interpreting "Brutal" as ugly [/QUOTE]
Absolutely not, you may view it as "ugly" but many of the posts have been amazing - and the one I posted is (imo) one of the iconic football stadium designs.

 

[slowmotion]

So how come you are OK with that but not a wind turbine?

Reiver's castle/fort actually performed a useful function perhaps?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

[QUOTE 3509882, member: 9609"]galas in a mess and the new tapestry thing aint going to help
[/QUOTE]

The tapestry thing is a separate issue - but I think that it's a waste of money.

But the Gala Fairdean Rovers ground is still amazing.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

And I also love wind turbines.

 

[slowmotion]

Those of you who don't like Brutalism might like this.



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[Pro Tour Punditry]

[QUOTE 3509891, member: 9609"]It certainly has something about it, i will award it a +1[/QUOTE]

It's the only thing I enjoy about going to Netherdale - apart from beating Gala of course which is easy...

I have not been to a Fairydean game yet but I plan of going soon. I might have gone next Saturday but I see that Melrose and Peebles are playing at The Greenyards in a Borders League match.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

In Melbourne's Federation Square. Yes, I do think it's brutal.

 

[Globalti]

View attachment 78467 Preston Bus Station, there was a long campaign to get it listed to save the council from demolishing it.

Also the Byker Wall. Too expansive and different across its whole length to do justice in one photo nabbed off google.

Preston bus station and that car park above it actually work pretty well.

 

[subaqua]

now what gets mr riled is everybody raves about trrellick tower, but forgets it is not the 1st one.

Balfron and carradale in Poplar were before that. OK carradale is a low level block.

i grew up not far from this. Mold shire Hall

 

[GM]

Oi, I used to live in Balfron Towers! Couldn't afford to now, they'er upgrading it to luxury apartments.