ON A FAR MORE IMPORTANT NOTE...

[tencrush]

Trinity Centre Multi Storey Car Park, Gateshead, aka The Get Carter Car Park by Owen Luder, due for demolition some time in the coming weeks

One day, when THE NEW BRUTALIST REVOLUTION comes, one day, YOU, you detractors and naysayers, your backs will be against the wall. When that revolution comes. Give it a year or two, given the current economic climate, but it will come.



Tricorn Centre, Portsmouth, by Owen Luder, demolished 2004

Town and city councils of Great Britain, admit it, you never really looked after the concrete properly, the way concrete is meant to be looked after, because you never really liked the buildings in the first place. Philistines, the lot of you. When Owen Luder eventually dies, he will come back and haunt you all. And so he should.



Derwent Tower, Gateshead, by Owen Luder, threatened with demolition

This post was sponsored by a brief flare up of architectural rage. Go on, then, tear it ALL down, you've started, you may as well finish.

Comments

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

In defence of the last planned demolition, the Rocket is unfortunately a bit too notorious and full of scary junkies to be all that viable as accommodation. I'd love to see it rehabilitated rather than demolished but I really don't see much hope of that, and I suspect that just leaving it there is not an option. On t'other hand, I doubt anyone really tried.

[tencrush]

Much like the Tricorn (of which we have a chunk on display. With a plaque. That I had made.) and the Trinity car park, I doubt very much effort was put in, and I'm sure the effort that WAS put in was dismissed with the usual derision Luder's work attracts. "It's ugly" in the eyes of a few crumbly councilmen with no taste seems to be sufficient reason to tear the stuff down.

I think Buck Palace is ugly and takes up a lot of prime location land that Tesco's would love to get their hands on, but still.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Much agreement on the palace of bloated pointlessness, yes.

I'm torn on t'Rocket. Purely as a thing to look at and to be there I am very much in favour, but when my mother worked in mental health she kept having clients who'd been dumped in there straight out of hospital because they were in no position to argue and who had a horrifying time.

That said, were it a better-appreciated building it'd be sold off as smug flats instead of reduced to rubble.