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Doncaster Magistrates and Law Courts - looks like a nuclear bunker from the outside or indeed something impenetrable.
I love Brutalist architecture. Brantford has some great examples if you know where to look. I took this shot in Blue Hour with my Pixel 6a cell phone.
Architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's Brutalist masterpiece the Barbican Centre in the City of London. Endlessly explorable the Estate is a concrete maze of innovate 1970's architecture, a self-contained city, which includes; a theatre, art gallery, cinema, library, tropical plant filled conservatory and residential towers among much more.
Architecture tours of the Barbican Estate take place regularly and I highly recommend them if you wish to learn more about the buildings design and gain access to some of its hidden features.
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Village Bus Station ✨ | Arménie 2019.
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Cromwell Place is a bold, arrogant and simplistic tower. Threatened with demolition for most of its existence, the tower is now entering the phase of slowly being appreciated. For locals, it serves as the area's tallest building and is somewhat of a landmark, despite its reputation.
Metropolitan Police architect and surveyor's department headed by J. Innes Elliott with Peter Silsby as senior architect in charge.
See more of this building at jza.photography/public-carriage-office/
The Brutalist lines of this building (the term “Brutalism” comes from béton brut, literally meaning ‘raw concrete’) demonstrate a type of architecture that allowed functionality to dictate design. Today this building sits aptly amidst the diverse mixture of old and new buildings in the heart of Ashford’s town centre, and is a totem reminiscent of Ashford’s connections to the wider world.
Theatre Royal Car Park.
Even though I was born in Plymouth i'd never really associated it with Brutal architecture ... how wrong I was!
Nikon D750, Nikkor 50/f1.4
Hotel Croatia, Cavtat, Croatia.
I have a new substack through which I am posting mostly words, it would be lovely to have you there.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 35/f2
Designed by Leandro Locsin, built 1967.
Leandro Valencia Locsin, Sr. (August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994), also known by the initials LVL and the nickname "Lindy", was a Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer known for his use of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his various projects.
Site of Ronald Regan’s Attempted Assassination
With a double-arched design,
the Washington Hilton Hotel was built in 1965
by William B. Tabler, Sr., an American Architect
who designed more than 400 hotels.
Since the hotel opened, it has hosted events like the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner as well as musical performances
by artists like The Doors & Jimi Hendrix.
In March 30, 1981, the hotel was also
the site of an assassination attempt
on U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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White wall tyres adorn Stagecoach in South Wales Alexander Dennis E30D 27276, one of 15 allocated to Cwmbran depot for "gold" Service X24 (Blaenavon-Pontypool-Cwmbran-Newport), as she finds a gap in the long winter shadows whilst passing under Newport's Old Green Interchange in late December 2016, and as a Newport Transport Scania OmniCity traverses overhead.
Contrast the brutal architecture of the Interchange and its spaceship style lighting with the open countryside that the X24 covers between Blaenavon and Varteg Hill:
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