Finally, I was able to go and see one of the brutalist buildings on my list, the first one sinde the pandemic started…and it poured down!
Never mind, it was good to be out and a useful exercise to have a very quick trot round before the horizontal rain stopped play. I shot just the front of the building but drove around it on my way out and I’ll be back in better weather to photograph this properly.
I made a (rather half-hearted post sometime ago about the brutalism at UEA Norwich campus. It poured on me all the time I was there
The Albert Sloman Library, located on the University of Essex campus in Colchester, UK, is a striking example of Brutalist architecture. Built in the 1970s,
On my annual visit to Blackpool for the Rebellion Festival I popped out in the morning to have a look at the (now vacant) police
This is Terminus House in Harlow. Built originally around 1975 and designed by Principal Architect J C Whitney of the Harlow Development Corporation this office
This is a pretty decent primer on what Brutalism is, it’s history, it’s fall and now, possibly, its rise again.
My (slow) restart of this project stutted on last Sunday when I visited the Worsley Medical and Dental Building in Leeds (on the University campus)
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