Design | January 06, 2008 | 5 comments

Unlovely '60s Architecture

source: http://www.retrowow.co.uk/architecture/60s/icons_and_eyesores/sixties_architecture.html

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mischabarrett
Everyone in the UK has to suffer at least one of these eyesores, at an average rate of once daily. This site professes to love all things retro but even they draw the line at concrete buildings from the swinging sixties. What were these designers thinking? What are the worst buildings where you live?
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5 comments // Unlovely '60s Architecture

  • graemesmith
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      graemesmith  
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    • Actually yes I thought that was familiar. There is a large body of people who love Trellick tower. A friend of mine studying urban design visited London just to see it! How about nominating this modern marvel ....
      this is the historic facade of Manchester's Trafford Centre in all its mock Georgian glory (built aprox 1997).

    • 4 years ago
  • Simon_S
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    • I actually think the Trellick Tower (the picture you've used) is quite a fantastic building. It's better than most of the new-builds you see in this country - some sort of hybrid faux-cottage chocolate box nonsense.

      And the Trellick was designed by Erno Goldfinger, which is the best name ever. Modernism, brutalism, you either love it or hate it.

    • 4 years ago
  • phillyharper
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    • I found a "better" picture. It's by a photographer talented enough to make this horrendous building slightly more aesthetically pleasing.

    • 4 years ago
  • phillyharper
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    • How can so many architects get it so wrong?

      The Jarvis Hotel in Piccadilly Gardens is the most disgusting building in Manchester. You can only get pictures of it with trees in front of it, trees which are now gone.

      Oh come back tree's, and hide this Shrek beast of a building.....

    • 4 years ago
  • mischabarrett
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