kylechong:

VERTICALITY

#brutalist #manchester #concrete #architecture #citytower #tower #design #bluesky #verticality

scavengedluxury:

Mercure hotel underbelly. Manchester, Oct 2012.

modernism-in-metroland:

Circular Car Park, Hemel Hempstead

Double helix car park in the Water Gardens area of Hemel Hempstead, built in the late 1950’s and now demolished.

Image from Our Dacorum.

modernism-in-metroland:

Bletchley Leisure Centre (1972-6) by Faulkner-Brown Hendy Watkinson and Stonor.

Leisure complex including a swimming pool enclosed in a galvanised steel pyramid and walkways constructed of glass reinforced plastic. The buildings were demolished in 2010 and replaced with a new centre by Holder Mathias Architects.

Image from Culture24.

mpdrolet:

Lonely pub, Yorkshire, 1964

John Bulmer

new-brutalism:

Moorgreen House 2, Earlstoke Estate, Finsbury, London, Renton Howard Wood Levin Partnership for the GLC, 1972-1976

Photo: Simon Phipps

scavengedluxury:

Brutalist vents. Blackpool, April 2012.

scavengedluxury:

Subliminal cinema. Nottingham, April 2012.

scavengedluxury:

A strange house. Leicester, August 2012.

humanoidhistory:

A World War II pillbox in Acle, England, built to blend in with the townscape.