What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[Hitchington]

It's all a bit Marmite, ain't it?

Bit like the UKIPs

 

[threebikesmcginty]

St Peter's Seminary, Cardcross is a good one too.

The interior could do with a whip round with a duster.

Think someone's taken this on now with a view to restoring some of it.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Brutal football stadium

 

[Hitchington]

Geisel Library in San Diego looks pretty amazing...

 

[Arrowfoot]

Gosh, didn't realise that we had that many artistic disasters. Some look like it was done on purpose.I am sure a school kid would have them just looking at the drawings that it was going to be butt fugly.

 

[Hitchington]

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

 

[green1]

Brutal football stadium

Does that show up on radar or is it a stealth stand?

 

[Hitchington]

It doesn't qualify, It's off-topic. There isn't much else like it in Watford though.

I come from Watford, what about Charter Place, or the YMCA?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Does that show up on radar or is it a stealth stand?

I have no idea what you are talking about, I see nothing but trees

 

[Hitchington]

This is in Watford - Church Car Park - it mesmerised me as a child.

 

[Saluki]

Does this bloody ugly, award winning, pile of concrete count? I'm told that it's beautiful and ground breaking. Can't see it myself.

 

[palinurus]

This is in Watford - Church Car Park - it mesmerised me as a child.

Same here.

I was going to post a picture of Charter Place too. Maybe I should start a separate thread.

 

[User169]

Does this bloody ugly, award winning, pile of concrete count? I'm told that it's beautiful and ground breaking. Can't see it myself.

One of my fave buildings. Many happy memories!

 

[robjh]

Does this bloody ugly, award winning, pile of concrete count? I'm told that it's beautiful and ground breaking. Can't see it myself.

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.

 

[TVC]

Asking what is your favourite bit of brutalist architecture is like asking what is your favourite skin condition?

It's all pretty nasty.