Category / Bristol / Brutalist / Urban
A collection of blog posts and images about Brutalist architecture.
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Demolition of the Bristol Sorting Office
At the end of March I was fortunate to get a quick tour of the demolition work being carried out by Kier of Bristol’s former sorting office at Temple Meads. The structure, which has been derelict since 1997, is being demolished to make way for the new Bristol University Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus. The building…
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Bristol Temple Meads and Temple Gate
Temple Gate – the area around Bristol Temple Meads station – is changing. It is being redeveloped as part of the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone project. I’m relatively new to this city but it seems like this regeneration is both welcome and long overdue. There are currently a lot of empty and derelict buildings…
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The M4 Footbridge
Since moving to Bristol last year I have spent a bit of time on the M4 motorway and one particular footbridge just outside Swindon has been catching my eye. It’s a wonderfully curved concrete structure with two ramp decks on the North side of the carriageway and a single deck on the South. The other…
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Searching for the Nameless Concrete Church (in Korea)
We were visiting South Korea on a two week holiday and I knew that somehow I had to shoehorn a trip to the ‘Nameless Church’ onto the agenda. I’d seen the stunning images on the Fubiz blog post of the concrete church near Seoul by Nameless Architecture and couldn’t let an opportunity like that pass by. Amazingly I managed to convince…
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Brutal Utopias – The UEA
(from a visit on 3 October 2015) I was delighted when I heard that The National Trust was organising a series of tours to celebrate post-war brutalist architecture. I love concrete buildings – not always the most popular viewpoint I know – but I believe that buildings such as these deserve to be treasured and…
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Brutalism Français
On a recent ten day trip to France we (@clogette and I) managed to take in more examples of brutalist and quirky architecture than I could reasonably have expected from a normal holiday. From subterranean car park art installations to giant concrete cheese wheels in an autoroute service area this was a trip that just…
