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Having participated in the Photo24 Challenge recently, myself & Tim Scott decided another trip into London would be a great idea. This time I only took my little Sony RX100 mk3 & iPhone with me as the thought of carrying my Canon 5d mk4 & associated lenses in 30 degree heat for the day was just too much. Ultimately, this was the right decision & whilst at times the image quality & ability to get certain shots that the Canon would have given me proved frustrating the small bag & weight far outweighed this. We arrived in London at 10.15am & headed straight to The Barbican for some brutal architecture shots, then made our way across London taking in various sites along the way, ending up in Brick Lane for a curry at 7.30pm.
Barbican is one of the best examples of how the British did brutalist architecture in their own way. This residential complex has around two thousand apartments, and it was built in an area devastated by bombings during the Second World War.
We were there for the second time last Sunday and took too many pictures of it.
The wonderful Strathcona Building. - social sciences, built in 1964 to a design of Howell Killick Partidge and Amis, and has recently been restored lovingly to its former glory (yes!) by Berman Guedes Stretton of Oxford.
The brutal architecture of the Guild Hall looms like some invading space craft - really fitting in well with the rest of the buildings. Were the people who designed these hideous monoliths in the 60's and 70's from some other planet ???
Looking from the NCP car park on Wellington Street down onto an already demolished part of the YEP building