I suppose it's how you define 'favourite', Bollo!
Most attractive despite brutality or fugliest
What's your favourite bit of brutalist architecture?
- Thread starter Yellow Fang
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Most attractive despite brutality or fugliest
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Also my instant response....'My God that's ugly!'
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I see someone's painted out the "i'....On the subject of Yorkshire brutalism there should be a mention for the High Point building in the centre of Bradford. Tis the building of your Kafka-esque nightmares.
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Brutalist architects, concrete masterpiece condemners or internet forum posters?
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
One late addition, that a lot of CCers must have cycled past endless times, is the bunker in The Mall - on one's right on exiting (past the bronze nose) through the Admiralty Arch toward Trafalgar Square.
"The foundations are nine metres deep, and a six metre thick concrete roof protects the principal rooms. It remains a gaunt reminder of the Second World War. In an attempt to disguise the original function of the building, it is now covered with Russian vine and the roof is grassed over, and is cut twice a year."
Apparently, it is called The Admiralty Citadel. Some info here. And, The Quinlan Terry fan club have been thinking of being a bit brutal with it... notwithstanding the man's memorable words: "first we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us".
Winston Churchill24th November 1951
Does anyone work in the Gherkin?
"The foundations are nine metres deep, and a six metre thick concrete roof protects the principal rooms. It remains a gaunt reminder of the Second World War. In an attempt to disguise the original function of the building, it is now covered with Russian vine and the roof is grassed over, and is cut twice a year."
Apparently, it is called The Admiralty Citadel. Some info here. And, The Quinlan Terry fan club have been thinking of being a bit brutal with it... notwithstanding the man's memorable words: "first we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us".
Winston Churchill24th November 1951
Does anyone work in the Gherkin?
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
If you covered that with glossy artisinal tiles in a colorful scheme, that would look downright homey.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Not sure I have a favourite but the Alexandra housing estate has always stood out to me...so I guess it qualifies as a favourite.
Is that too clichéd ?
Is that too clichéd ?
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Probably not brutal enough, but it has a certain charm.
The toast rack. Fallowfield, Manchester
The toast rack. Fallowfield, Manchester
If much-loved Anglia Square in Norwich was good enough for the Alan Partrige movie premiere, it is good enough for me.
I'm a connoisseur of the ill-favoured.
Probably not brutal enough, but it has a certain charm.
The toast rack. Fallowfield, Manchester
My mum did her hairdressing C&G there!
I remember passing it loads of times as a kid on the bus when we had to trek between Moston and Wythenshawe to visit the grandparents.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Fried egg?Probably not brutal enough, but it has a certain charm.
The toast rack. Fallowfield, Manchester
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Who loved Anglia Square? One fictional character perhaps, but anyone else?
Concrete Brutalism does have a place, and this is it: an industrial storage silo that is prettier than it really needs to be.Is this Brutalist?
It was built as a sugar silo for Tate and Lyle.
glenn forger
Guest
Visiting Anglia Square is like visiting a zombie film.
