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
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
Oh no! Now they're building it back up!
https://i.imgur.com/1XBShvV.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
The ghost of William H Parker is powerful.
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
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
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
always remember them from visits to CP - we used to park opposite
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
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
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
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
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
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/
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
"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
― nickn, Friday, 29 April 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
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
― koogs, Thursday, 7 July 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
?
― sarahell, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:42 (one year 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."
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.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/BlBGVao.jpghttps://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
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
I did whippets behind this one in San Francisco:
http://photos.cinematreasures.org/production/photos/170048/1465168115/large.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
"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/
― nickn, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
Booooooooo!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
most thin shelled concrete buildings won't last 100 years tbh
― micah, Sunday, 9 October 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
Chris Martin Tears Down John Lautner’s Garwood Residence
https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/musicians/chris-martin-house-malibu-teardown-1203603490/garwood3/
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link