I’ve been banging on about brutalism on this blog for years now so it’s heartening to see a growing momentum in the campaign to see our brutalist heritage (yes, heritage) preserved. Yesterday the World Monuments Fund put three UK brutalist buildings on its “watch list”. The three sites, Preston Bus Station, Birmingham Central Library (pictured) and London’s South Bank Centre, are described by the organisation as “monumental structures” that “date from a time when municipal authorities had the financial resources and the political will to contribute major civic buildings to the public realm”. Days that are now long forgotten but deserve to be remembered.
The Rubble Club, the organisation for architects who have had a building demolished in their own lifetime, is on the brink of announcing its first annual award to commemorate The Best Demolished Building.
If anyone needs another reason not to vote BNP in tomorrow’s European elections, it turns out they hate ‘brutalist modernism’.
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