What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?

[theclaud]

But that lighting effect is a modern addition. ... not part of the original brutalist design

Never said it was - just trying to get @User14044 to recognize it.

 

[PK99]

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.

I'm from Preston and lived there when it was built. Functionally it was and is a complete disaster area.

Only official pedestrian accesss is via underpasses that have always been muggers and druggies heavens and permenantly smell of piss ... as a result far too many people have been killed walking across the bus access areas.

 

[RedRider]

Is this Brutalist?

It was built as a sugar silo for Tate and Lyle.

 

[Profpointy]

Is this Brutalist?

It was built as a sugar silo for Tate and Lyle.

Probably counts as a different genre, but has a certain beauty whatever category it's in.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

The truly wonderful and amazing Trellick Tower

You just wouldn't want to live there!

 

[Hitchington]

You just wouldn't want to live there!

I'd give it a go, see if I liked it (which I think I would). Going to try to visit at the next Open House at least

 

[Archie_tect]

I wouldn't want anyone to live there.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Some of the most brutal architecture is to be found on the military estate. No pictures though as I was never allowed to take my camera in -obviously.

 

[Profpointy]

Never seen it in real life, but how about Bangladhes's parliament?

Or this house near Madrid?

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

I'd give it a go, see if I liked it (which I think I would). Going to try to visit at the next Open House at least

Really?!?! I think you have had one bump on the head too many. Give me a village any day of the week, somewhere you call smell the grass, touch a tree, hear the birds.
I wouldn't live in a tower block for all the money in the world. I hate city life. Have to go into London almost every day for work and cannot wait to get out again.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Demand for flats in Trellick Tower far outstrips supply.... seems lots of people want to live there.

Is it not said "there's nowt so queer as folk".
Different strokes for different folks. There must be a lot of people who do want to live in cities; I'm not one of them.

 

[Mr Celine]

Those rather cuboid houses in the foreground aren't too appealing neither.

But when walking past them you didn't need to worry about the residents chucking loaded nappies off their balconies, which was something that the residents of the flats frequently did.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Weymouth Jobcentre....so ugly it could shatter any camera lens pointed at it!

 

[Maverick Goose]

Aha, Sussex University IIRC? Quite nice with the right light........

 

[Gravity Aided]

But when walking past them you didn't need to worry about the residents chucking loaded nappies off their balconies, which was something that the residents of the flats frequently did.

Another good reason to carry an umbrella in the city.