fredthe3rd wrote:

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Can't say I'm ever upset when brutalist buildings get knocked down!

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 No, I think you're completely wrong fred. Try and have some perspective. What you consider a real blot in 100 years will be the equivalent of a beautiful Victorian Town Hall. Also, if all the Brutalist buildings are demolished then we lose an important tool for understanding culture and views on post war housing and rebuilding. By the way, Owen Hatherley has a new book out tomorrow about the stunning Brutalist architecture in Sheffield, it's called Brutaliust Speculations and Flights of Fancy. I for one can't wait to read it! Heres a detail from one of my faves; the Electricity Substation. Love that spiral staircase!

 

 

I much, much prefer brutalist architecture to the fussy Victorian stuff which everyone seems to think is so beautiful.

 

I especially love Manors car park in Newcastle- thankfully a listed building:

 

-- Edited by calumlynn on Friday 30th of September 2011 03:21:11 PM

Stockwell Bus garage built 1952, if it makes a feature of its materials to the detriment of any fancy decoration it tends to be brutalist; and it's made entirely from exposed concrete! I think it counts, it's beautiful as well. Here we go, the largest Grade II listed building in Europe; Park Hill Flats, Sheffield

I actually lived in ablock like this in the early 80's. Broomhall Flats, now demolished.

calumlynn wrote:

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I much, much prefer brutalist architecture to the fussy Victorian stuff which everyone seems to think is so beautiful.

 

I especially love Manors car park in Newcastle- thankfully a listed building:

 

-- Edited by calumlynn on Friday 30th of September 2011 03:21:11 PM

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I think you may be the only person in the city to hold that view! That part of town is hideous. Rodney Gordon and his like came close to butchering Newcastle in the 60s. Now we're left with a series of these smeared grey things. Better sandstone or even glass than concrete.

Yeah that was me! Just bits of concrete I found on a bit of waste land. Suckas!

Jazza wrote:

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I'm at Brighton but am applying to do veterinary science at uni (hopefully Liverpool) for 2012 - which means I'm looking at £45 000 debt (yay). Hmmm... not much else really. I play trumpet in a Funk band at college so if anyone in the Brighton area want us to play at any parties/ events... haha!

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Hey - I went to Liverpool uni! It's a great city to be a student in.  Best of luck with your application.

If you do get in, and it comes to applying for halls of residence, I would highly recommend the Greenbank site.

The Rocket's being demolished this year. There's a fair bit of regeneration planned, south of the Tyne. Good luck with the book- I like the NatWest tower. Ben Richards called it the Darth Vader of the London skyline.

anet wrote:

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If you do get in, and it comes to applying for halls of residence, I would highly recommend the Greenbank site.

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 noted :P

this is for abs> There used to be a night called Britpop run by a guy called Johnny - but he stopped doing them last year - as for nights where you can here Pulp being played - to be honest there really isnt, maybe the World Bar at the Cross on a Thursday night - they have one of those Propaganda nights going on - well that was a few months back - but I think all you would get there is Common People or Disco 2000 - and I think its geared for more of the newer stuff and the kids.

Theres lots of interesting stuff going on in Sydney > but Pulp apart from at Indie nights rarely get played. There used to also be Spectrum on a Friday night after the bands and that was wicked! All good old stuff - ooccasionally a night pops up but I really have not seen anything for ages.

Pulp of course get played at my place so feel free to join the Pulp disco around Canterbury/Hurlstone Park kind of way!

littlesaint wrote:

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 it didn't seem to have the social problems of The Manor.

Does anyone know what Owen Hatherley's Sheffield connection is?

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 Owen Hatherley has no Sheffield 'connection' as far as I am aware he just rates the brutalist architecture of Sheffield as probably the finest in the country. He's also a massive Pulp fan having written a mongraph on them; Uncommon. I believe he may be from Southampton. The Manor isn't a block of flats or anything though, it's just the name of a district in Sheffield. Try and check out Hatherley's book 'A Guide to the New Ruins Of Great Britain' as well.

-- Edited by saw119 on Saturday 1st of October 2011 03:14:12 PM

I'm a bigger fan of brutalist buildings now there are fewer of them. I feel we should be keeping examples of these bulidings in our towns and cities for future generations. Yes they pulled down a lot of beautiful old buildings and knocked these up in their place but if we now tear down all of these buliding now 40 - 50 years later then we're kind of making the same mistake. As with everything there are good an bad examples. Trinity Square car park in Gateshead was impressive but in completely the wrong location. I took the tour to the top in it's final days - I've got some pics somewhere. Eldon Square Shopping Centre really annoys me. I think it's a blight of the city centre and the way it had torn streets in half and ripped through Old Eldon Square is appaling. It's T. Dan Smith we have to thank for that one. He was a very naughty boy!

Park Hill in Sheffield I find amazing as it's just so vast. Regeneration or alternative uses for these buildings should be sort before they consider sending in the bulldozers!

I'll private you my email Deborah. I was just going to put it here then thought of the spam I'd be getting in my nice shiney new, spam free email address!

I'm glad I started this thread now. I thought nobody would quite get what I meant but it looks like I underestimated! It's nice innit.

BTW - My album is now finished - if anybody wants a free promo copy the send me a private message with your address and I'll post them out with the rest.