Brutal Architecture - an Open Thread

Car park, Swindon...

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A few photos taken in London's Barbican Centre, all Leica M240 with 35mm f/2.5 LTM Voigtlander lens.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2nnvCyU]Barbican L1000052edit by Keith Hudson, on Flickr[/URL]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2nmF8Pp]Gilbert Bridge Barbican L1000039edit by Keith Hudson, on Flickr[/URL]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2nmMGf6]Barbican Centre L1000040editBW by Keith Hudson, on Flickr[/URL]
And a colour one, same camera & lens.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2nmMG9j]Barbican Frobisher interior L1000044editC by Keith Hudson, on Flickr[/URL]
 
MERRY CHRISTMAS ! My dear alma mater Ruhr-Universität Bochum/D :



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HAPPY NEW YEAR ! My dear alma mater Ruhr-Universität Bochum/D :



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Hi, inside a brutalist building. My dear alma mater Ruhr-Universität Bochum/D :


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Hi, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, again :


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(I do not like the term brutalism. Functionalism or functional purism would be more apt. At the time, in the mid-60s, the Ruhr-Universität Bchum was seen as a "learning factory" by its founding fathers. And one showed the building materials, where possible. The wooden boards for the concrete casings were left to be seen clearly. This was called "Sicht-Beton"
("Visible Concrete"). I am a little familiar with concrete building. I wanted to become an architect, completed a 3-year concrete worker apprenticeship, and worked as a skilled concrete
worker for a year, before changing my professional plans ... ---)
 
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Binsey Walk on the Thamesmead Estate in East London.
Built in the 60's by GLC architect Robert Rigg most of it has now been demolished.
It's the location where Alex attacks Dim and Georgie in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Rossini's Thieving Magpie Overture.
Leica Q
 
Plankton said:
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Binsey Walk on the Thamesmead Estate in East London.
Built in the 60's by GLC architect Robert Rigg most of it has now been demolished.
It's the location where Alex attacks Dim and Georgie in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Rossini's Thieving Magpie Overture.
Leica Q
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When did you take that. I went there about 4yrs ago and it had all gone.
 
Plankton said:
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Binsey Walk on the Thamesmead Estate in East London.
Built in the 60's by GLC architect Robert Rigg most of it has now been demolished.
It's the location where Alex attacks Dim and Georgie in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Rossini's Thieving Magpie Overture.
Leica Q
Click to expand...
My shot from 2020. I can see now,they have put boards up and opened the path up.London_Thamesmead_30AUG20_190.JPG
 
Sheffield car park, heavily photoshopped to remove lights, signs & other distractions...

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These flats at Canary Wharf seem to me a fitting background, for a visiting Belgian warship...

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