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National Trust launch project celebrating Brutalist post-war architecture
United Kingdom Architecture News - Sep 07, 2015 - 15:51 3694 views
Park Hill Flats Sheffield, image © Alex Currie
Consider the National Trust, and you might think of stately homes filled with tapestries and leather-bound books. But the conservation charity isn’t just about grandeur. This month, the organisation is launching a project designed to celebrate the austere post-war architecture of Brutalism that could hardly be more removed from aristocratic mansions.
Rather than baroque facades and duck-filled lakes, it’s about cutting concrete edges and unremitting urban grey. The National Trust explains that the kind of Brutalism seen at the University of East Anglia or the Park Hill estate in Sheffield has “altered the landscape” of Britain just as much as the country’s palaces, and so deserves to be celebrated......Continue Reading
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