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EADD Meetup at Castle Shambles (was kinky)

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don't think so no, Birmimgham isn't a particularly attractive city it has to be said, but there's a fair bit to do there. Not sure what the nightlife is like.
 
The old Bullring was a really beautiful brutalist building! Show it some love:

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It's absolutely unrecognisable now, sadly. Not that the new design is all that bad; it's just a shame.

Anyway, I'm out of this thread as to be perfectly honest I wouldn't even cross the road to meet any of you.
 
the new design looks like something that had been lying at the bottom of the sea for 500 years. :-)

Not sure how to take the 2nd bit, have you gone off me and swampdragon now then, are you just 'being controversial' or does it fall under the 'other reasons/ none of the above category' :-(
 
Do you really like that 'brutalist' architechture ? :-0 ive never met anyone that does, perhaps predictably i fall into the prince charles camp and consider designs like that and Prestons bus station hideous carbunkles, cathedrals, and victorian, gerorgian grandeur, and some modern building of the tgime, of right now, are getting it right, i think the 50s was a blip. Concrete was in vogue, at least amongst middle class architects who probably didnt have to live amongst the depressing opressive and ugly buildings every day.
 
I adore brutalist architecture, aye. Modernist architecture in general. I know several people who share this passion, and it's becoming more popular by the day.

Of course it can be (and was) done badly on occasion, but to label all concrete structures as ugly and oppressive is going too far. Have you looked at some of Le Corbusier's designs, for example? Beautiful works of art.

There's a real utopian futurism in a lot of the stuff, which I appreciate, but it stands on its own as great design.

Have you ever walked around the old UMIST campus when it's quiet? You can lose yourself among the walkways.

I can appreciate that it's not everybody's cup of tea but you might be surprised at how much of it you find agreeable and/or inspiring. Give it a go sometime!
 
If it's in Brum, I might actually consider going ... as long as it's not riiite naow.
 
The Bull Ring was/is hideous, if the IRA had blown that up instead of pubs they'd have got major support. Not from Sam obviously.

I can't stand brutalist architecture as you put it but I was highly amused to come across a Stalinist-like hotel in the middle of Cambodia, practically in the middle of nowhere. A massive block of squared off concrete but once inside it was actually quite beautiful. It also helped that my room overlooked a wide river with a copious crop of cannabis plants growing besides it. And the fact the hotel had about 500 rooms but only seemed to be inhabited by us.

You should take a walk around the Chalk Hill estate in Wembley Sam, you'd probably love it. Stonebridge Park too. NW London is full of Labour's 1960's fuck-ups.

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also there was a decent piece on brutal architecture in the guardian this morning but its gone off the front page and i cant find it

loved what they did with the tate modern building (which is fucking hideous but not)
 
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Top is Stonebridge, second one is Chalk Hill. I c ould get done under the sourcing rules putting these pics up.
 
Brum does look like it could suit a few people for a meet up. I believe our mate Bodda is nearby there & would be great to meet him irl as well as the rest of you.
 
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