What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[mikeIow]

Owen Luder obituary
Architect who gave Britain some of its best-known brutalist buildings, including the car park that features in the cult film Get Carter died today.

~The Times link ~

& a non-paywall link - https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/owen-luder-britains-unluckiest-architect-dies-aged-93

Some good shots of the Tricorn Centre here: reminds me of the late 70s: growing up on the IOW, it would be a great to head to Portsmouth (or Southampton) for a day out….the market was under the Tricorn, I do remember it broadly appearing pretty grim….yet those shots do remind us how “stylish” the design was (like it or not…)

RIP

 

[PeteXXX]

He was in a small 'club' of architects who have had their buildings demolished within their own lifetime.

RIP, maybe within a Brutalist mausoleum.


Edit Thanks for the better link @mikeIow

 

[Grant Fondo]

At Uni, I had my classes here- View attachment 615204 and lived here- View attachment 615205
A rather brutal existence, at that.

Where is that?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Where is that?

Southern Illinois University , at Carbondale, Illinois. Buckminster Fuller taught there, and there were a few geodesic dome houses in the town.

 

[JBGooner]

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this lovely bit of gothic architecture was replaced by

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in 1967, which was then replaced by

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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"

I'd vote for the top one.

 

[JBGooner]

Definitely designed by someone who hates people. Why was this allowed to happen?

 

[JBGooner]

Not unpleasant but somehow I think the Serbian shelling has improved it

Hotel Pelegrin, near Dubrovnik.

 

[oldwheels]

St Peter's Seminary at Kilmahew near Cardross, Dunbartonshire. Been derelict for some years now but apparently is to be rejuvenated. Have not seen it since about 1960ish and have a picture somewhere but apparently of great architectural merit.

 

[oldwheels]

Found one pic so far of St. Peter’s Seminary, Cardoss.
Very important note. The emphasis is on the first part of Cardross. You can get lynched for getting it wrong.

 

[StuAff]

& a non-paywall link - https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/owen-luder-britains-unluckiest-architect-dies-aged-93

Some good shots of the Tricorn Centre here: reminds me of the late 70s: growing up on the IOW, it would be a great to head to Portsmouth (or Southampton) for a day out….the market was under the Tricorn, I do remember it broadly appearing pretty grim….yet those shots do remind us how “stylish” the design was (like it or not…)

RIP

RIP, but the Tricorn was horrible. End of.

 

[Pale Rider]

The Get Carter car park in Gateshead wasn't especially ugly as car parks go.

I think its problem was being on an elevated site, and on stilts, which meant it dominated the skyline.

Seems to me the town planners should have seen that coming.

 

[dodgy]

It looks like a good few of these pictures were taken in Flint, North Wales

 

[Gunk]

Forton Services Lancaster, opened the year I was born

 

[Gunk]

 

[BrumJim]

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Definitely designed by someone who hates people. Why was this allowed to happen?

Miss that building. It had a certain "building crap, service great" feel about it. Now reversed.