Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Hey 3BM, next time you're up in the Toon, give us a shout. I work 2 mins walk from this building.
What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?
- Thread starter Yellow Fang
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Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I have previously posted an external pic of this place, today I was inside
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Splendid!I have previously posted an external pic of this place, today I was inside
The area the folks are milling around on is the roof of the crypt of the Cathedral that was started bu never completed.
Yeah. According to my Dad the spire was also meant to be a lot taller, but cash ran out.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
The sculptured facade of Leeds University's Mechanical Engineering dept now has a grade II listing. I never valued the aesthetics of the portal for the three years that I used it on an almost daily basis. I was far more interested in the Rolls Royce jet engine that was plinth mounted inside and whose fan could be rotated with the force applied by one finger.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
What about a brutalised brutalist building?
I give you the Ministry of Defense building in Belgrade bearing the scars of Nato's Cruise missiles. A similar building over the road from this had an 'entry wound' that took out the main entrance. The postal service couldn't have been more accurate with the delivery. It's a jaw dropping sight and I marvelled at the lack of collateral damage to the surrounding buildings.
Belgrade is a pretty depressing place if you disregard the main shopping mall and restaurant zone.
I give you the Ministry of Defense building in Belgrade bearing the scars of Nato's Cruise missiles. A similar building over the road from this had an 'entry wound' that took out the main entrance. The postal service couldn't have been more accurate with the delivery. It's a jaw dropping sight and I marvelled at the lack of collateral damage to the surrounding buildings.
Belgrade is a pretty depressing place if you disregard the main shopping mall and restaurant zone.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
You can do better than that @vernon. Here are a few ideas for your period of increasing mischief...What about a brutalised brutalist building?
I give you the Ministry of Defense building in Belgrade bearing the scars of Nato's Cruise missiles. A similar building over the road from this had an 'entry wound' that took out the main entrance. The postal service couldn't have been more accurate with the delivery. It's a jaw dropping sight and I marvelled at the lack of collateral damage to the surrounding buildings.
Belgrade is a pretty depressing place if you disregard the main shopping mall and restaurant zone.
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Colin_P
Guru
I cannot help but include some industrial and military structures which are brutal on the adjacent landscape.
Empress State Building, West Brompton London
Guys Hospital London
Slough Bus station - old
Cardington airship hangars Bedfordshire
Southall water towers
Greenham Common nuclear bunkers (used in the new star wars film and also a very eery place to walk / cycle round although you cannot access the actual bunkers)
Empress State Building, West Brompton London
Guys Hospital London
Slough Bus station - old
Cardington airship hangars Bedfordshire
Southall water towers
Greenham Common nuclear bunkers (used in the new star wars film and also a very eery place to walk / cycle round although you cannot access the actual bunkers)
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I never tire of watching that video. I once felled a 30' conifer with such directional confidence that I only removed one fence panel from the boundary fence with my neighbour and told her that she didn't need to move her car. She didn't trust me and moved it but was subsequently impressed with the tree landing exactly where I said it would.
I wouldn't have been as confident had I used explosives for felling instead of a chainsaw....
I only got to use gas/air and vapour/air mixes for explosions at university only the grown ups got to use the 'good stuff'.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
How about the 'Rusty Building' in Leeds?
It's clad in COR-TEN, was voted best tall building in the world in 2010 and the tower part is student accommodation for Leeds Metropolitan University students. The rest is the faculty of arts, environment and technology.
Colin_P
Guru
Sticks out like a sore thumb, which is good.
Having a look through this I think @User482 posted up a picture of Senate House.
I don't classify that as brutal but it is my favourite building. The scale and aspect of it, it looks infinitely more massive than it actually is. More art deco buildings the better
And more art deco / Bauhaus crossover stuff. I love it.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
There was a COR-TEN clad building in Cambridge in the Seventies. The story went round that a paint company banged on the door and offered to fix the problem. All the architecture students fell about with mirth.How about the 'Rusty Building' in Leeds?
It's clad in COR-TEN, was voted best tall building in the world in 2010 and the tower part is student accommodation for Leeds Metropolitan University students. The rest is the faculty of arts, environment and technology.
BTW, didn't Serra use it somewhere?
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
this lovely bit of gothic architecture was replaced by
in 1967, which was then replaced by
in 1995 .
I worked on the horrible 1960s block when i was an apprentice spark doing alterations in the early 90s , then again after the new facade had been built.
lots more info on the destruction of the old nmarket hall here http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery/market.html
I shall no doubt be able to post a piucture of the new bus station on Gorse stacks which resulted in the destruction of a fine pub called " the ship Victory"
