What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[Time Waster]

I don't recall back then it was quite an issue. Nobody I knew have ever complained about it. It was just normal. Other towns were the same. I've never lived where bus station is near the train station. Preston, Southport, Blackburn, Leeds, Liverpool, etc. I just don't think you can put this bus station down for something like that which ime is common with a lot of towns.

 

[Blue Hills]

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Keeling House, also Lasdun, East London.
Wonderful arrangement of individual flats.

Originally council housing, went through a difficult period, now sought after expensive private flats for the new London

 

[Blue Hills]

I don't recall back then it was quite an issue. Nobody I knew have ever complained about it. It was just normal. Other towns were the same. I've never lived where bus station is near the train station. Preston, Southport, Blackburn, Leeds, Liverpool, etc. I just don't think you can put this bus station down for something like that which ime is common with a lot of towns.

Integrated transport/easy interchanges have been seen as a good idea for rather a long time for rather obvious reasons.
No reason why the north shouldn't have it.
Vauxhall Bus station London is right next to Vauxhall tube and train station - if it's good enough for London and MI6's spies, good enough for other folks.

Blackburn train station used to be a right old mess of course - when trains were seen as history by some - now sorted - bus station in my view should have been outside - as it effectively used to be.

 

[PK99]

Wiki says it's difficult for pedestrians to get into. Written by someone who had never been there. From town centre there's a shopping centre and from there you walk straight up into he middle of it via a walkway. Plus two other pedestrian underpasses as well. Easier than lancaster bus station and Blackburn iirc.

When I used it buses used both sides and a lot of movement too. The bays at each end tended to be spares for parking up at. Now with changes in the city centre less people go to the bus station. Not so in my day.

Not near the train station? That's a common thing in that area I think. Blackburn train station is a walk away from the buses too. Not a problem ime as bus users and train users aren't the same people back when I got the bus. It's not like Preston was an integrated city.

The underpasses were muggers alleys that smelt of piss.
Many opted to dodge the busses on the concourse rather than use them.

A year os so ago the tunnels were filled with concrete.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

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Keeling House, also Lasdun, East London.
Wonderful arrangement of individual flats.

Originally council housing, went through a difficult period, now sought after expensive private flats for the new London

By odd coincidence I delivered my old Kona Cindercone to a bloke who bought it in one of the houses on the right.

And on my way back home blundered into the charging zone. Expensive delivery!

 

[MontyVeda]

I've never seen it looking that nice MV. Was that when new, post refurbishment or have you done some photoshop jaggery pokery?

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Just a photo i found on Pinterest. Clearly it's been vignetted so i guess other techniques to make it look nicer may have been adopted.

 

[Blue Hills]

Just a photo i found on Pinterest. Clearly it's been vignetted so i guess other techniques to make it look nicer may have been adopted.

Fair enough to say it looks that good I think.

 

[Profpointy]

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

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Hotel Pelegrin, near Dubrovnik.

I think we've been scuba diving from the dive shop in their basement. It was somewhere very similar at any rate. The place we went had the too floor at road level and the

 

[PK99]

absobloodlylutely!
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By way of balance, a few Street view shots


Current : Far side from Town Centre. No pedestrian access

Current : Ditto

2009: Long walk to get in on the Town side. Note high fences and also, if you Zoom in, notice the suicide nets on the top two levels

https://www.google.com/search?q=pre...ome..69i57.15725j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[MontyVeda]

looks a lot nicer these days on the town side

 

[Blue Hills]

By way of balance, a few Street view shots


Current : Far side from Town Centre. No pedestrian access
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Current : Ditto

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2009: Long walk to get in on the Town side. Note high fences and also, if you Zoom in, notice the suicide nets on the top two levels
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https://www.google.com/search?q=pre...ome..69i57.15725j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

don't understand your point about the odd suicide PK - hardly a criticism of the building - folk have been chucking themselves off high structures since we emerged from caves.
I still think it a great building and in fact one of the best things in Preston (one of the others is a very non brutalist pub)

 

[Grant Fondo]

Is this a brutalist church? Our Lady Star of the Sea in Amlwch, Anglesey. Designed in 1932 by an Italian architect. Grade II* listed, but sure it divides opinion. Assume the reinforced concrete hoop roof is intended to look like a boat hull.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Gotta love them crazy Ruskies...

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Er,.... not at the moment

 

[All uphill]

Is this a brutalist church? Our Lady Star of the Sea in Amlwch, Anglesey. Designed in 1932 by an Italian architect. Grade II* listed, but sure it divides opinion. Assume the reinforced concrete hoop roof is intended to look like a boat hull.
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I would have guessed that was Scandinavian; how wrong.

It's lovely, but I don't see it as Brutalist.

 

[PK99]

Is this a brutalist church? Our Lady Star of the Sea in Amlwch, Anglesey. Designed in 1932 by an Italian architect. Grade II* listed, but sure it divides opinion. Assume the reinforced concrete hoop roof is intended to look like a boat hull.
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"Brutalist architecture" first used1950 for this building: