Bruitalist Architecture and Towerblocks.

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  • Oh jeez...Just like the Byker Wall in Newcastle that place looks like it was designed to keep poor/low income people in one place...
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  • Someone from Chesterfield once told me there was once big water treatment ponds in middle of Sheffield. I don't know if that was true.

    In Sandnes, Norway they've taken crap architecture to a new level. I'm undecided about it. Sorry if it's been posted already.
    The three towers .

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  • Kaija wrote: »
    Someone from Chesterfield once told me there was once big water treatment ponds in middle of Sheffield. I don't know if that was true.
    could be, could be anywhere lol, was a sewage farm near where i lived but thats on the ouskirts where it crosses the border into rotherham.
    Also new tinsley viaduct there could be one, very industrial, near meadowhall
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  • Oh? This fella seemed to think it was a big deal. Said the place was a bloody mess...that's why he moved to Dundee...
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  • Dundee is full of students these days. It's a bit strange.
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  • edited February 2018
    zx1 wrote: »
    Dundee is full of students these days. It's a bit strange.
    so is sheffield LOL, they now have a student quarter Oo and knocked down the row of shops with one of my long loved second hand record shops on :(
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  • dont get me started on Sheffield and its "old" sets of flats lol

    Park Hill anybody?
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    LOL just found out Dr Who is currently being filmed around Park Hill, Sheffield. somebody said its probably so it looks like some 1970s russian place
    and again talking of park hill, sheffield, the artitect has just died

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  • What is your views on the Angle of the North? I think it's really neat and would love to see it some day.

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  • Scottie_uk wrote: »
    What is your views on the Angle of the North? I think it's really neat and would love to see it some day.

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    never been that far up so never seen it in the flesh...so to speak
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  • Scottie_uk wrote: »
    What is your views on the Angle of the North? I think it's really neat and would love to see it some day.
    I think it is a bit over-rated. Usually witnessed as a disappointing glance of a rusty mess when passing on the A1, at a distance that perfectly ruins any impact of scale. The whole concept of holding up one mediocre statue as some kind of symbol of "The North" to London types reflects a lot of what is wrong with the UK. Not terrible, but slightly underwhelming given the hype.
  • edited February 2018
    On the other hand, having re-read your question, my view of the "Angle of the North" - is that it is roughly 90 degrees to the equator.
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  • I thought the Angel of the North was a friggin' eyesore, and a waste of money when it first went up, now it'd be weird if it wasn't there.

    Not that it matters since I haven't lived anywhere near it for 11 years now :))
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  • edited February 2018
    A BIT over rated? Its friggin' bizarre, grotesque, butt ugly. One day a tornado will come along and with that wingspan someones in for a flying lesson. What the hells happening to my country? That ferkin great ferris wheel in London too, its gone to the dogs if you ask me.

    Oh and why is that car in the right lane? Don't English people drive on the left any more?
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  • F_Clowder wrote: »
    This one's for Martijn, wherever he may be.
    https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/bijlmer-city-future-part-1/

    What did he do to deserve that godawful abortion?. Le Corbusier what an over rated tosser!
  • edited February 2018
    mik3d3nch wrote: »
    Oh and why is that car in the right lane? Don't English people drive on the left any more?

    Ah, the old A1 (B), aka everything past Watford Gap...
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  • mik3d3nch wrote: »
    What the hells happening to my country? That ferkin great ferris wheel in London too, its gone to the dogs if you ask me.

    Nothing wrong with the London Eye. The London skyline has been obliterated thanks to some of the ugliest buildings ever designed (the Shard for example) and you pick on a bloody ferris wheel!
  • mik3d3nch wrote: »
    Oh and why is that car in the right lane? Don't English people drive on the left any more?
    They invented dual carriageways...
  • Vampyre wrote: »
    mik3d3nch wrote: »
    Oh and why is that car in the right lane? Don't English people drive on the left any more?
    They invented dual carriageways...
    And then they invented so called intelligent motorways...!!!

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  • edited March 2018
    Kelvin flats, sheffield


    had a few mates lived there lol

    looking back through mi gig book i thought i only saw a couple of gigs at the GEORGE IV pub opposite Kelvin flats (as i was new to gigging) but turns out i saw 8 gigs, which shocked me
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  • edited March 2018
    LOL
    the eggbox


    the "new" townhall, in Sheffield, we used to all sit on the grassy area in front and get **** and stoned (the peace gardens) (ive sat there with our very own Mile before too) there could be like 100 punks, metallers, winos, homeless and smackheads sat there getting wrecked through the 70s, 80s, 90s
    just under the front is a shelter area and theres a fountain? we used to get thrown in there if it was known it was your birthday (after being forced to sup a 2 litre bottle of cider in 1) glad my birthday was in april lol
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  • The hole in the road, sheffield


    miss it :(
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  • Yes, but that is really a UFO
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • Once voted the ugliest shopping centre in the UK, hard to believe this hasn't been knocked down.
    Cumbernauld shopping centre

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  • zx1 wrote: »
    Once voted the ugliest shopping centre in the UK, hard to believe this hasn't been knocked down.
    Cumbernauld shopping centre

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    wheres the shops? Oo
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  • It looks like a processing plant for soylent green :-?
    What now?
  • I'm feeling like maybe since there's a William Hill sign on the side of it the upper part is used to process the race horses from the track that are no longer providing the goods into Superglue, and MacDonalds Cheeseburgers.
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  • edited March 2018
    I see there is a door at one end, where if people try to escape they fall to their deaths. Maybe the William Hill at the bottom takes bets on what injuries will be sustained. 2-1 death, 3-1 paralysis, 4-1 Broken Collarbone and punctured lung and so on.

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  • I'm not sure what it's like inside because i've never been in it. probably never will. :))
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  • redballoon wrote: »
    Horses for courses and all that. Check out this beauty I took just the other week. A classic bit of UK Brutalism.

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    You'll be telling me that The Designers Republic and Build are rubbish, too, with it's use of brutalist buildings within it's design!

    Seriously, though, if we all liked the same things the world would be incredibly boring, eh?


    Is that Forton Services by Lancaster? I think Hilton Park in Birmingham has a similar shaped building, but it's not in such a rural setting, so that makes me say Forton.
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