What concrete wants to be

[hirez]

This, rather than brutalist shopping centres for grim-faced proles.

(From here.)

Comments

[valkyriekaren]

No, it wants to be this:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23635129-saved-for-britain-the-old-concrete-house-of-dulwich.do

[nalsa]

Rewatched the Troll-A programme with Hammond on Sunday; the bit about the legs and the continuous pouring method never ceases to amaze.

[aoakley]

Nah, that's just some bizarre stillborn product of a mating between a Hochbunker and a French water tower (and you just know who was the giver and who was the receiver in that particular relationship).

I quite like brutalist shopping centres. The Mander Centre in Wolverhampton, particularly. I do dislike the modern contrivance of painting their innards white, rather than leaving the concrete bare like wot woz intended in the 60's. It's like painting the timbers in a half-timbered house the same colour as the wattle-and-daub; you lose the marvel of achievement in the construction. Kidderminster Swan Centre multi-storey car park, there's another unsung brutalist masterpiece.

[quercus]

Stuff the tower, I want the silver coupe at the foot of it.