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Brutalist high-rises remind us how bad the Sixties really were

United Kingdom Architecture News - Oct 05, 2014 - 12:31   2668 views

Brutalist high-rises remind us how bad the Sixties really were

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Balfron Tower and other similar blocks may be ugly but they can teach us a bold and badly needed history lesson

Looking up at Balfron Tower, it is hard to imagine that this was once somebody’s dream of the future. The rotting concrete service shaft with its arrow-slit gashes of glass. The pebbledashed scrum of boxes for people. The arthritic “sky bridges” between the two. Whose dreams look like...Continue Reading

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