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And now the YP is no more, Just a pile of rubble on the floor.
Demolition of the Yorkshire Post Building on Wellington Street in Leeds.
This ugly brutalist structure housed two newspapers; the Yorkshire Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post. It was opened by Prince Charles in 1970 (how ironic) and won a RIBA bronze medal from delusional RIBA judges. It was mercifully put down in 2014.
Few mourned.
A metaphor perhaps for the demise of physical publishing and declining standards of journalism.
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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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
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/
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.
Handheld panorama taken in very bright conditions while surrounded by the brutal architecture of The Barbican Centre (an amazing location).
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.
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
i like the fact that it isnt really round. its in the inside of a ww2 bunker. so just brutal architecture that did not have to look good when it was build.
The Catholic parish church of the Resurrection of Christ was built between 1964 and 1970 according to plans by the architect Gottfried Böhm in the Lindenthal district of Cologne. The two architects Wilhelm Jungherz and Klaus Micheel were also involved in the design.
The church building illustrates to a large extent the idea of architecture as sculpture.
The church is excellently integrated into the urban planning. It serves as a vanishing point for the Lindenthal Canal, which is lined with avenues. At the end of the canal, wide staircases form squares, which are bordered on the sides by community buildings. Finally, the church rises together with the parish tower.
The staggered height development with projections and recesses and beveled edges creates a sculptural character. At the north-west corner, the open spiral staircase emphasizes the tower. The plastic effect is reinforced by the calculated use of the material colors, the change from reddish brickwork to light exposed concrete surfaces.
The floor plan is asymmetrical and polygonal. The angles and niches resulting from this in the outline are assigned liturgical tasks. Together with the different room heights and the reduced incidence of light, the room is given liveliness. The building appears as a walk-in sculpture. The windows, also designed by Böhm, are predominantly red-glazed. Together with the reddish masonry, they reinforce the cave-like atmosphere.
Photography & retouching by Matthias Dengler
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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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During the 1970s this building provided many local people with employment until the mining corporation “Charter Consolidated” moved away around the turn of the century, when it subsequently stood empty until it was sold for residential conversion in 2020.
While some parts of the concrete facade of “The Panorama” are looking slightly worse for wear, generally the building is in a good state of repair.
An art deco styled building in downtown Baton Rouge Louisiana next to the state capitol building. Lighting and color grading in Lightroom. Used ND8 filter and circular polarizer
Golden Mile Complex, April 2023
This landmark 1973 Singapore development is about to be closed for a major redevelopment. The brutalist icon was designed by architects Gan Eng Oon, William Lim and Tay Kheng Soon and engineered by Arup.
Danville Finance Office, formerly First Financial Bank, 17 West Main Street, Danville, Illinois. A stunning example of brutalist architecture. The ellipses are actually drive up teller windows for the former bank.
The desolate Anderston Centre, Glasgow, a deeply unlovely place, even as it was being built, passing it in 1969 I remember thinking how ugly it was and the years haven’t helped - although, astonishingly, the good readers of an architecture magazine, Prospect voted it in at number 54 in the best 100 modern Scottish buildings. #anderson #andersonglasgow #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #brutalist #brutalism #brutal_architecture #brutalistarchitecture #architecture #glasgow #glasgowcity #glasgowcitycentre #geometric #patterns #glasgowblackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochromatic #monochrome #desolate