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
― ledge, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
wow, the same guy did the Command Module AND Centre Point?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ledge, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
Limebank House, 69-98
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4698132715_e32591a4cd.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
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
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
> it's dark
it does look like the architect has shares in a lightbulb company...
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
deposed builders
John Bancroft (1928-2011)
― conrad, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
bizarre to build such a thing on a riverfront.
― jed_, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Lee547 (Lee626), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lee547 (Lee626), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
The Pan Pacific Auditoriumhttp://laist.com/attachments/lindsayrebecca/PPA_1937_LAPL.jpg
Ambassador Hotelhttp://blog.allanellenberger.com/wp-content/uploads/ambassador.jpg
And too many others in L.A. to even list.
Penn Stationhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Penn_Station3.jpg
― the wheelie king (wk), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 March 2013 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― nickn, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― schlump, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― schlump, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Love that columbia savings/church.
― Another turning point, a stork fuck in the road (ledge), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 April 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
The Ambassador College Fine Arts and Science buildings, Pasadena, being torn down now for condos.
http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/51c0f6faf92ea14ad7034475/ambassador4.jpg
― nickn, Friday, 28 June 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
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
― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Friday, 28 June 2013 10:27 (ten years ago) link
:(
― Tim, Friday, 28 June 2013 10:40 (ten years ago) link
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
― nickn, Thursday, 12 June 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
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/
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
The Windsock, Dunstable
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhZwtHOCcAEa9hw.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 20 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
(1971-1984)
― ledge, Friday, 20 February 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Wow! Do I recall that being featured on one of Ian Nairn's roadtrip TV shows?
― Tim, Friday, 20 February 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
I thought the Nairn one was in Northampton but that does look strikingly similar.
― xelab, Friday, 20 February 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago, 1975 - 2014
http://c1038.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/group5/building43395/media/rsgn_prentice1009bs.jpg
― Tim, Friday, 20 February 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
blasted off into interstellar space no doubt.
― ledge, Friday, 20 February 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 20 February 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah that is great, although lol @ Today many of its 87 roofs leak
― ledge, Friday, 20 February 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
was that building in Dunstable. a pub!
― Fizzles, Friday, 20 February 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Oh dear, a case of abject memory failure.
― xelab, Friday, 20 February 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
and it is hardly a indistinguishable heap of mortar either!
― xelab, Friday, 20 February 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Bertrand Goldberg buildings aren't that common. For shame!
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Saturday, 21 February 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
Some Mid Century Moderns in disrepair.
https://www.mcmdaily.com/mid-century-modern-ruins/
― nickn, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 04:54 (eight years ago) link
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
― xelab, Monday, 16 November 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
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
― xelab, Monday, 16 November 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 08:03 (eight years ago) link
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".
― xelab, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
This was on my route to work, hardly had the panache to be called brutalist but it was certainly imposing, now covered with scaffolding and hoardings, due to be turned into apartments for pricks.
http://i.imgur.com/DR3QUUF.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 11 December 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
I can't wait to put the Reeves Center and the Hoover Building on this thread
― El Tomboto, Friday, 11 December 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
And I was glad to see the following go:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Third_Church_of_Christ%2C_Scientist_-_Washington%2C_D.C..JPG/1024px-Third_Church_of_Christ%2C_Scientist_-_Washington%2C_D.C..JPG
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Saturday, 12 December 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
I dunno, I kind of liked that thing. It was ugly and stumpy but in a kind of "Our Temple Of R2-D2" fashion. Telling out-of-towners that it was a church was usually good for a chuckle.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 December 2015 01:22 (eight years ago) link
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fp-fst1.pixstatic.com%2F5254438b697ab0510b003947._w.500_h.375_s.fit_.jpg&f=1BEEP BOOP come inside all are welcome BLEEBOP DEEDOOP
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 December 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Aw, I really liked that one, was sad to not have gotten inside the one time I saw it.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 December 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
I liked catching a glimpse of that from K St. on my morning commute, but really that just says something about the rest of the garbage buildings in this city.
― how's life, Saturday, 12 December 2015 10:09 (eight years ago) link