Deposed buildings

He did the Tricorn (and several other centrs under threat) and is still alive.
As is John Maddin, and if Brum city council get their way, his central library will have to be added to this thread at a later date, depressingly. As it is several of his buildings that I liked have already gone.
The Birmingahm Post and Mail
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/typo3temp/pics/P_22ba9f68ad.jpg
and Pebble Mill
http://u.jimdo.com/www7/o/s0031f87db135fdc9/img/i7a36ebeeaca884c7/1279253596/std/bbc-pebble-mill-image-downloaded-from-birminghamuk-in-accordance-with-accordance-with-their-copyright-rules-see-acknowledgements-for-a-link-to-their-website.jpg

York House, Manchester
1911(!)-1974http://iloapp.manchestermodernistsociety.org/blog/a-z?ShowFile&image=1305845251.jpg

woah

! indeed

this is a great thread

Disused Ministry of Defence building on Portsdown Hill near Portsmouth in Hampshire. Not sure if the demolition of this one is complete yet but it is certainly underway. I also worked here for a time, it had excellent views across the Solent.

This is the one the NHS took over and is still standing afaik. I actually dreamt about this building the other night.

DC, can you post some pics or links to the swiss hillside buildings or the indian ones? i don't know them and am interested to see them.

― jed_, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:38 AM Bookmark

Swiss hillside bldgs, there are a number of these (most famous, maybe, is the Halen Sidelung by Atelier 5) - my favorite scheme is the one in Umiken by Atelier 2000.

India - most important figure here is probably B. V. Doshi (see for example his fabulous IIM campus in Bangalore), although it's also worth looking at the earlier, pre-PoMo work of Charles Correa, for example his thoughtful little Gandhi ashram museumin Ahmedabad. Doing a "fusion of East and West" is sort of a standard departure point for the first generation of Indian modernists, although personally I think it's more interesting and more broad-minded to see them as participating in the larger sweep of international Modernism's exploration of complex, locally-informed solutions.)

None of these, of course, have been demolished. :-/ The only big thing here in Columbus, OH that I wish we still had going is this thing:

http://www.cardcow.com/images/set92/card00279_fr.jpg

(The Christopher Inn, by Karlsberger Architects. 1963-1988)

BTW, those down with Brutalism as a style that produced some really fabulous buildings (every once in a while) should add Fuck Yeah Brutalism to their feeds. Lots of eye candy!

Awesome example of "the car is king" architecture.

Richard Seifert - of Natwest, King's Reach and Centrepoint towers fame - is a rich vein to be mined for this thread. To start, Draper's Gardens, at a shade under 100m the tallest building ever to be demolished in the UK! 1967-2007

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/76055876_1bd6d65b89.jpg

and a thoughtful article:
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=648

wow, the same guy did the Command Module AND Centre Point?

He's probably more responsible for London's current skyline than any other individual! Check out his list of works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Seifert

Limebank House, 69-98

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4698132715_e32591a4cd.jpg

This is a great thread. Has there ever been a bad architecture thread on ILX? The Jed/Doctor Casino/et al commentary is icing on the (brutalist, tiered concrete) cake.

There's talk of demolishing Antoine Predock's building at Cal Poly Pomona, built in 1994. Apparently circulation inside is horrible, it's dark, it leaks, etc.

http://la.curbed.com/uploads/2010_09_pomona2.jpg

On the subject of tower blocks, streets in the sky, etc, I suppose soon we'll be able to add the Aylesbury and Heygate estates to this thread. So far I think only one of the buildings has been demolished. The rest are abandoned with boarded-up windows, doors, and walkways. The council or whoever finally managed to force out the few remaining holdouts, it seems... for a while there were still people refusing to move well after everyone else had already left.

> it's dark

it does look like the architect has shares in a lightbulb company...

deposed builders

John Bancroft (1928-2011)

http://www.thecollectormm.com.au/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/YarraView4.jpg

Melbourne. Those buildings in the foreground (Gas & Fuel Corporation Towers) were demolished almost 15 years ago. Not loved by anyone ever.

bizarre to build such a thing on a riverfront.

Christopher Inn looks alot like the Capitol Records Tower.....

It was razed almost a decade ago, but it's still hard for me to believe that the Capital Centre (a.k.a. The Building Shaped Like A Pringle) is just a memory. It doesn't seem that long ago that the building was almost new and held out as the state-of-the-art ultramodern stadium in town with all of the latest amenities (video screens! hot stuff in the '70s). If you grew up near Washington D.C., *this* was the go-to place to see your '70s and '80s arena-rock bands. Immortalized in the indie film "Heavy Metal Parking Lot". The parking areas were A Like seemingly everything in Washington D.C., it wasn't really in DC but rather an hour's drive away in Landover, Maryland, which was one of the main beefs with the place (except for people who happened to live near Landover, Maryland).

But what was contemporary in 1976 somehow was a dinosaur by 1997, when the main Washington hockey and basketball teams moved to a new stadium that actually was in Washington DC and had the all-important big-ticket luxury suites, and five years later after scant use for rock festivals and the like, the Capital Centre was imploded. A new shopping mall, also called Capital Center (now spelled the customary US way) was built on the old site, and it too is underutilized.

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slideshows/909/slideshow_90938/display_image.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Kiss19790708.jpg

oops started to write "'the parking areas were all named after American symbols like "Eagle" and "Liberty Bell"' in above post, then decided that detail was too trivial to mention, but forgot to delete the first part of the sentence i started to write.... Bad me.

The Pan Pacific Auditorium
http://laist.com/attachments/lindsayrebecca/PPA_1937_LAPL.jpg

Ambassador Hotel
http://blog.allanellenberger.com/wp-content/uploads/ambassador.jpg

And too many others in L.A. to even list.

Penn Station
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Penn_Station3.jpg

http://www.docomomo-us.org/files/404x276xmaritimeunion.jpg.pagespeed.ic.9OzFpFEEr6.jpg

The National Maritime Union's Joseph Curran building, New York City. Later the Edward and Theresa O'Toole Medical Services Building of St. Vincent's Hospital. Albert C. Ledner, 1964.

Not yet flattened AFAIK, but as doomed as doomed can be.

More doomed 60s: Columbia Savings, Los Angeles, by Irving Shapiro, 1965. It had been used as church before being torn down 3 years ago.

http://lac.laconservancy.org/images/content/pagebuilder/15099.jpg

man, pictures of penn station. it is so terrible how they have pictures of old penn station in new penn station. idk if it is an attempt at atonement or if it is just the final straw intended to reduce people forced to spend time in the building into utter breakdown.

Haha totally. I believe there's a plan afoot to shift things around so one enters through the grand old post office building across the street. Which would be an ungodly expensive and complicated thing to do but some kind of sad, late compensation for what was done.

haha. that's total bait & switch! tbh it is just gonna turn the sadness of witnessing the decline of penn station into a one-two punch in which we also mourn the deterioration of the post office. it isn't closing or anything, is it? that you can go mail a letter at 11pm sunday night is one of those awesome uniquely nyc things to me.

Love that columbia savings/church.

http://archpaper.com/uploads/image/american_folk_art_museum.jpg

Old news already but the Folk Art Museum building by Tod Williams & Billie Tsien is doomed, a scant twelve years since it was completed.

The Ambassador College Fine Arts and Science buildings, Pasadena, being torn down now for condos.

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/51c0f6faf92ea14ad7034475/ambassador4.jpg

partnership house, waterloo, london, home of the church mission society and notable for its catchy slogan on the portico.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/imageuploads/1309868174_80.177.117.97.jpg

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/161/433375046_65ef9d7f07_z.jpg

:(

Started being torn down yesterday in Los Angeles. Not a great one, but nice nonetheless.

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/10344840_10152488376575549_7133884080302667381_n.jpg

And more Moderne in LA under the hammer! Not yet demolished but threatened with it.

http://deadhistoryproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/9080-SMB_WurdemanBecket_Dog-Cat-Hospital-exterior-BB.jpg

More info/pics here.
http://deadhistoryproject.com/

The Windsock, Dunstable

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhZwtHOCcAEa9hw.jpg

(1971-1984)

Wow! Do I recall that being featured on one of Ian Nairn's roadtrip TV shows?

I thought the Nairn one was in Northampton but that does look strikingly similar.

Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago, 1975 - 2014

http://c1038.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/group5/building43395/media/rsgn_prentice1009bs.jpg

blasted off into interstellar space no doubt.

Ugh, that whole thing was such a bummer. Really crossing my fingers for Rudolph's government center in Goshen, NY, though things look pretty dicey.

yeah that is great, although lol @ Today many of its 87 roofs leak

I thought the Nairn one was in Northampton but that does look strikingly similar.

was that building in Dunstable. a pub!

Oh dear, a case of abject memory failure.

and it is hardly a indistinguishable heap of mortar either!

Yeah, Bertrand Goldberg buildings aren't that common. For shame!

Some Mid Century Moderns in disrepair.

https://www.mcmdaily.com/mid-century-modern-ruins/

RIP Barnsley Central Offices, it is ugly as hell but just as an iconic part of the town as the Park Hill Flats are in Sheffield imo.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ql_jKFRtSU4/VMYrswbBPEI/AAAAAAAASSI/3eTuKh1kcfg/s1600/SAM_7286.JPG

Pretty sweet temp solution to fill it's space for the next few years, which may end up being decades by Northern standards of "temp" structures.
https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/media/1519/temporary-market.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&rnd=130881006220000000

idk to me it's odd for a public market to be so 'impermeable' and contribute so little to the surrounding streets - are there really no entrances or activity along the sides of this building? Seems like a missed opportunity. But then, I don't know Barnsley at all, and maybe there's a reason for this design.

It gave me some lols when I saw it on Calendar yesterday without actually listening to the program. It is only a temporary solution whilst something a bit more pretty is built on a different site. My stepfather always tells this tale about the apocryphal crying girl he once saw in Blackpool. "What are you crying for?" "Because we are going back home today and I live in Barnsley".