Deposed buildings

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

;_;

what the fuck

an outrage

couldn't they find someone to stick a McDonald's in it

savages

, disgusting

I dunno. Lose the arches and it looks pretty much like any other branch.

https://i.imgur.com/m7EzBQ0.png

I dig that building in the background though.

https://i.imgur.com/XBJBZea.png

While undoubtedly controversial, I think the addition of a bulldozer is a bold design element.

Developer tears down a Neutra, city orders him to rebuild it.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-requires-property-owner-who-demolished-13467909.php?utm_campaign=CMS+Sharing+Tools+%28Mobile%29&utm_source=whatsapp.com&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR2gEvEvHTM_VH7bmsHC7GF8q3b5gAvyuOhXa7fsPdJOCUL7T9m-YRdycuI#photo-16648644

Zillow of the house pre-tear down.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/49-Hopkins-Ave-San-Francisco-CA-94131/15131464_zpid/?fbclid=IwAR1QNX7XbsfklJwR6CodJTVKfVcD9PJ6ft4iE03FwAmt7BhYnHNGYXFaNXY

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/17/goodbye-to-gomorrah-the-end-of-italys-most-notorious-housing-estate?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

When finished, the corridors were narrower than planned, the tower blocks closer together and the proposed transport links and social spaces non-existent. The effect was to isolate hundreds of the city’s most destitute families without access to work in a vast concrete slum.

a familiar story, but like the parkhill flats in sheffield - despite all the failings of making tower flats that are dignified living spaces - it looks awesome.

Parker Center, Los Angeles, includes a 1-min time lapse.

https://urbanize.la/post/city-completes-above-ground-demolition-parker-center?fbclid=IwAR1GeaqYbn0AAmU-21u2S7i_Pv866kwUB_oa1Pg2YzcFdTwSnZea71fHNEI

Oh no! Now they're building it back up!

https://i.imgur.com/1XBShvV.gif

The ghost of William H Parker is powerful.

here's a nice wee video depicting the whitevale and bluevale towers which were taken down a few years ago.

they were glasgow and scotland's tallest buildings - or thereabouts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluevale_and_Whitevale_Towers

https://vimeo.com/169669169

30% of Glasgow's high rise flats have been demolished in since 2006. Next on the list are the Whitevale and Bluevale flats - Glasgow's so called Twin Towers. When they were built in 1969 they were seen as the utopian answer to the city’s housing crisis. 45 years later they are a dystopian nightmare after years of crime and neglect..Lights Out is a short film that comprises of 4 years of documentation, timelapse recordings and audio interviews with the first and last residents of the Twin Towers in Glasgow prior to their demolition. Photographed, directed and edited by BAFTA Scotland New Talent award winning filmmaker - Chris Leslie. Soundtrack by John Maxwell Hobbs.

a remember someone who had lived in the lower floors of one of the towers when it was still new and he was young telling me that there were huge cracks up his family's living room wall, so no expense was spared clearly!

must admit some of the views look amazing

always remember them from visits to CP - we used to park opposite

Whatever you say about how fucked up and corrupted and incompetent many UK social housing projects were in the 50's/60's, at least there was a will to actually build them.

xp. i always get to one game at cp when I'm home and walk into town down the gallowgate and I'm still not used to those big behemoths being there.

if they'd actually built them well and thought about the social cohesion and community aspects when moving folk then they could've been a success i reckon

The Zack House by Craig Elwood burned by the Getty fire in Los Angeles.

https://www.facebook.com/KCMODERN/photos/pcb.2525595454199945/2525593230866834/?type=3&theater

An MCM in the So Cal desert is slated for demolition. Probably unavoidable as I can't image anyone with the money to restore it would want to live out there. The "Hilltop House" in Apple Valley.

https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/newts-paradise-apple-valleys-spectacular-hilltop-house/

"Marcel Breuer's first binuclear house, Geller I in Lawrence, New York has been demolished in the dead of night."

https://docomomo-us.org/news/marcel-breuer-s-first-bi-nuclear-house-is-demolished

This is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. (Detroit, MI) pic.twitter.com/OHBjTOKuJI

— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) July 6, 2022

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"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."

I remember the Heygate Estate - it was popular with photographers and film-makers. I remember the final gun battle in a film called The Veteran was shot there. It felt odd because the estate was often portrayed as a drug-ridden hellhole, but the few times I visited there was almost nobody about and it was actually quite pretty because it was being reclaimed by nature.

https://i.imgur.com/K7cKTqY.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/BlBGVao.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/a8Ygn7O.jpg

At least it's now still buildings, although they aren't finished and I imagine they aren't cheap:
https://goo.gl/maps/89bAH1MpQzE59NsY8

Top Gear (or whatever the new one is called) did a show that featured that Detroit garage - it was an early 20th century theater that became a concert hall that became a garage IIRC.

I did whippets behind this one in San Francisco:

http://photos.cinematreasures.org/production/photos/170048/1465168115/large.jpg

"In addition to the main sanctuary building locally known as The Egg, there are a trio of additional buildings on the First Christian Church campus, all designed by Conner & Pojezny."

Oklahoma City

https://www.archpaper.com/2022/09/oklahoma-city-egg-shaped-first-christian-church-demolished/

Booooooooo!

most thin shelled concrete buildings won't last 100 years tbh

Chris Martin Tears Down John Lautner’s Garwood Residence

https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/musicians/chris-martin-house-malibu-teardown-1203603490/garwood3/