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A lived-in flat holds out against redevelopment
in Park Hill.
Photograph: Paul
Dobraszczyk
Sheffield's Park
Hill:
the tangled reality of an extraordinary brutalist dream
The Guardian
Friday 14 August 2015 08.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/
park-hill-brutalist-sheffield-estate-controversial-renovation
An overgrown area
in the old part of the Park Hill estate.
Photograph: Paul
Dobraszczyk
Sheffield's Park
Hill:
the tangled reality of an extraordinary brutalist dream
G
Friday 14 August 2015 08.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/
park-hill-brutalist-sheffield-estate-controversial-renovation
Churchill Gardens
estate in Pimlico, London, 1978
This playground
is
on the modernist Churchill Gardens estate
designed by Powell
and Moya,
but clearly built
at a later date.
Before these
postwar playgrounds were built,
children would
have been playing
in the bomb sites
left after the war.
It’s possible the
architects
were referencing
that in their design.
Photograph: John
Donat
RIBA
Britain's
brutalist playgrounds – in pictures
We’re familiar
with the sight of brutalist towers in Britain,
but less well
known are the strange playgrounds built at the same time,
which are the
inspiration for a new installation at the RIBA
by the artist
Simon Terrill and design collective Assemble.
With their rough
surfaces and dangerous drops,
these surreal
concrete structures
were very much a
product of their time
G
Tue 9 Jun 2015
14.21 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/09/
britains-brutalist-playgrounds-in-pictures
Holy
Cross Church, Spotswood Mount, Gleadless Valley,
Sheffield, S14
Designed by Braddock and Martin-Smith. Built 1964–65, not listed.
With
the population of Sheffield Corporation’s Gleadless Valley estate
growing throughout the 1950s,
competitive church-building soon followed.
The
Anglicans announced their presence
with
the highly distinctive Holy Cross.
From
its elevated hillside position,
a
white concrete crucifix at the roof’s apex
looms over the houses below.
Two
full-height windows of concrete and glass,
designed by the artist John Baker, occupy the west end of the church
Concrete jungle: the brutalist buildings of northern England – in pictures
A new
book captures
the most aspirational and enlightened architecture of the north’s
postwar years
–
featuring competitive church building and an endless supply of reinforced
concrete
G
Thu
12 Nov 2020 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/12/
concrete-jungle-the-brutalist-buildings-of-northern-england-in-pictures
An empty Art
Gallery,
ready for its
first exhibition (October 1981)
Peter
Bloomfield
‘I wanted detail
in the foreground,
detail through to
the background
and strong
perspectives that fed you into the picture.’
Concrete plan:
building the Barbican in the 1970s – in pictures
G
Monday 22 February 2016 07.00 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/feb/22/
building-the-brutal-barbican-peter-bloomfield
architectural style
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/artblog/2008/jun/26/
dontknockbrutalism
UK > Brutalism
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/26/
building-behind-brutalism-inside-the-smithsons-solar-pavilion-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/
world/europe/london-trellick-tower-development.html
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/09/
britains-brutalist-playgrounds-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/22/
lived-brutalism-portraits-from-robin-hood-gardens-housing-estate-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/apr/08/
brutal-utopia-modern-heritage-london-architecture-brutalism
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/feb/22/
building-the-brutal-barbican-peter-bloomfield
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/
jonathan-meades-brutalism-a-z
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/27/
brutal-unrepentant
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/artblog/2008/jun/26/
dontknockbrutalism
New Brutalism UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2011/jun/22/
london-new-brutalism-film-appreciation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/20/
architecture
Brutalist / brutalist UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/apr/10/
brutal-wales-architecture-simon-phipps-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/05/
brixtons-barrier-block-when-it-went-up-everyone-hated-it
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/27/
coventry-city-of-culture-brutalist-architecture-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/12/
concrete-jungle-the-brutalist-buildings-of-northern-england-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/15/
the-big-picture-football-sheffield-1960-roger-mayne-park-hill-s1-artspace
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/06/
chunk-of-london-housing-estate-to-star-at-architecture-festival
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/10/
barbican-housing-photography-design-architecture
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/07/
brutalist-world-architecture-peter-chadwick-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/04/
rich-people-reinvention-once-great-naval-city-plymouth
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/07/
concrete-plans-brutalist-buildings-to-be-celebrated-in-national-trust-tours
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/
park-hill-brutalist-sheffield-estate-controversial-renovation
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/23/
preston-brutalist-bus-station-reprieve
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2012/jun/11/
glasgows-red-road-tower-demolished-video
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/
arts/design/unloved-building-in-goshen-ny-prompts-debate-on-modernism.html
Brutalist buildings
USA
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/12/
g-s1-6417/brutalism-architecture-carbon-emissions
UK > London >
brutalist icon USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/
world/europe/london-trellick-tower-development.html
Brutalist estates UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/30/
park-hill-estate
Churchill Gardens
estate
in Pimlico, London, 1978 UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/09/
britains-brutalist-playgrounds-in-pictures
Robin Hood Gardens
estate in east London UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/22/
lived-brutalism-portraits-from-robin-hood-gardens-housing-estate-in-pictures
Park Hill estate,
Sheffield, 1963 UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/09/
britains-brutalist-playgrounds-in-pictures
giant housing estate
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/
park-hill-brutalist-sheffield-estate-controversial-renovation
Coventry’s
radical postwar concrete buildings UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/27/
coventry-city-of-culture-brutalist-architecture-in-pictures
Brutalist school UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2006/oct/23/
architecture.communities
Britain's brutalist
playgrounds – in pictures UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/09/
britains-brutalist-playgrounds-in-pictures
brutalist architect UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/10/
architecture
brutalist architecture UK
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/
curious-allure-brutalist-architecture-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/02/
architecture-brutalism-park-hill
brutalist building UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/mar/15/
architecture.regeneration
brutalist landmark UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/
john-bancroft-obituary
concrete UK / USA
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/feb/22/
building-the-brutal-barbican-peter-bloomfield
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/07/
concrete-plans-brutalist-buildings-to-be-celebrated-in-national-trust-tours
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/
park-hill-brutalist-sheffield-estate-controversial-renovation
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/
arts/design/unloved-building-in-goshen-ny-prompts-debate-on-modernism.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/mar/15/
architecture.regeneration
Alison Smithson (1928-1993)
and
Peter Smithson (1923- 2003)
The
brutalist style
that Peter and Alison Smithson pioneered
was
radical, practical and beautiful.
To their
enemies
– among
whom Prince Charles holds the megaphone –
their
uncompromising concrete boxes
are the
greatest sins that have ever been committed
in a
planning office.
This war
broke out as soon
as the
Smithsons' first building
was completed in 1954.
At the
time,
the blunt rectangularity of Hunstanton school,
with all
its glass and steel,
was profoundly shocking.
And
worse (or better) was to come,
in the
form of the Economist building
and then
the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate,
both in
London.
Though
the couple's idealism was obvious,
they
assiduously researched the habits of the people
they
designed for.
Indeed,
they saw their residential work
as the
compassionate reaction
to Le Corbusier's huge towers.
What
they were building,
as the
doomed phrase had it,
would be "streets in the sky".
Sadly,
practice did not follow theory.
Alison
died in 1993, and Peter in 2003,
but both
lived long enough
to see themselves ridiculed,
especially for the failure of Robin Hood Gardens
to
realise their expectations.
To many,
their
career now stands as a parable of the way
that
naive optimism can condemn the poor to squalor.
Yet to
others, including Richard Rogers,
the
story that Robin Hood Gardens tells
is of a
brilliant design being neglected and mismanaged.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/
lecorbusier-architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alison_and_Peter_Smithson
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/26/
building-behind-brutalism-inside-the-smithsons-solar-pavilion-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/
lecorbusier-architecture
The
building behind brutalism:
inside
the Smithsons’ Solar Pavilion – in pictures
A new
book documents
the
birth of an architect couple’s
experimental summer house,
which
went on to inspire the large-scale blocks
they
became famous for
G
Thu 26
Oct 2023 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/26/
building-behind-brutalism-inside-the-smithsons-solar-pavilion-in-pictures
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