Deposed buildings

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".

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

I can't wait to put the Reeves Center and the Hoover Building on this thread

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

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.

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fp-fst1.pixstatic.com%2F5254438b697ab0510b003947._w.500_h.375_s.fit_.jpg&f=1
BEEP BOOP come inside all are welcome BLEEBOP DEEDOOP

Aw, I really liked that one, was sad to not have gotten inside the one time I saw it.

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.

It was a brutal year for concrete architecture.

gutting.

I drove by the OC Government Center fairly recently. It was depressing.

http://www.amsterdamse-school.nl/Content/images/Building/10699/P1040421.JPG

Villa de Oliphant, Haarlem.

Olifant, sorry.

not so much deposed as never posed:

http://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/10/ordos-a-failed-utopia-china-raphael-olivier-photo-essay/

(also not a city but an entire town)

Another building about to be taken down on the former Ambassador College property (two honeycomb buildings I posted above are gone now). No great shakes architecturally, but it will likely be replaced with pseudo-Mediterranean condos.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12644997_10207845599511699_8223301925690862262_n.jpg?oh=3b194aa496421da2f535085d527a1a19&oe=576C9EA2

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12687999_10207845599271693_3113600707136114589_n.jpg?oh=5eb2f47f484a8b9ff922e87626a377b8&oe=57240E08

A William Pereira complex in Los Angeles, threatened with demo. A larger tower on the property has been preserved, and converted to housing.

http://la.curbed.com/2016/8/22/12553868/william-pereira-mwd-sunset-demolition-photos

From its hetday:

https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/4ZB8Jy4Jd3eXn8q5lk1NMhjrL0M=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6972751/gri_2004_r_10_b289_f12_005.jpg

FLW in peril!

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-lockridge-medical-building-is-slated-for-demolition-17-million-by-tomorrow?mbid=social_facebook

Pictures of some of them (trigger alert).

https://www.curbed.com/2018/4/6/17207934/brutal-destruction-pinkcomma-gallery-photography-exhibit

Dammmn, those are some good photographs. Pouring one out over here.

CBR Building in Brussels is apparently on the chopping block.

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/34746455_1410096875802208_1678301738412539904_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=07c9eba7cc63e915e4746cee9d3d2fba&oe=5BADB53A

More pics here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CBR_Building_in_Brussels

Like a giant cheesegrater full of liquid bronze.

was talking about this on flickr a while back - this particular type of bronze-colored reflective glass is rare among late-modern/brutalist tics in having basically NO defenders, as of yet....

The Founders National Bank of America located in Oklahoma City. Designed by architect Robert Bowlby and completed in 1963. Photo: Julius Shulman

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/43342632_1541533439325217_6375721720749228032_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&oh=ec30bc000f12f914c0f1fcecfbf26257&oe=5C55E972

And today:

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/43384937_1541533419325219_5432836091285602304_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&oh=8e3d2802e9fb281461a55e4d25e7af27&oe=5C6330D8

;_;