notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

fuckyeahbrutalism:

Pimlico Secondary School, London, 1967

(Greater London Council Department of Architecture & Civic Design)

Demolished 2010, replaced by an academy. What a deeply sad symbol of the regression from the egalitarian ’60s to the modern day.

Birmingham Central Library, May 2010, posted by r-c-h-t-c-t-r.

Statue and Birmingham City Library, posted by paths-and-angles.

keeptheziggurat:

betonbrute:

Birmingham Central Library. R.I.P. 1973 - 2013.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

A beautiful, early image of Central Library’s inner courtyard. Now due to be demolished in order to make way for corporate office blocks.

Sigh. (keeptheziggurat is a site “celebrating John Madin’s brutalist Central Library building (Birmingham, UK), and questioning the need for it to be demolished.”)

architectureofdoom:

Birmingham Central Library

Unfortunately, the Library itself is doomed.

(Source: eighths, via bbredux)

fuckyeahbrutalism:

Blue Ribbon, Helsinki (Competition Entry), 1952

(Viljo Revell)

An unidentified concrete building in London, by Andy Spain, from an archdaily collection: Architecture Photography: Brutalism in the UK. (indirectly via)

“Building Inside St. Pancras Chambers Room, London, England, 2001” by Abelardo Morell, from his Camera Obscura series.

The building is, I think, one of Camden Council’s offices, and houses their central library.

The entire series is well worth a look.

From Beautiful Brutes, a slide show at the NYTimes:

The Silver Towers complex, originally called University Village, has a sense of intimacy despite the huge scale of the three 30-story buildings. They’re identical — four windows on one side, eight on the other — though the rationalism is more elegant than oppressive.