BRICK BY BRICK - DEMOLITION OF A NATION | LIVERPOOL MAY 2016

Walked past the freshly demolished Nation in Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool the other day.

In it's late 90s heyday the home of Cream and Bugged Out!, now all remains is that graffiti and a big pile of bricks. RIP.

 

 

  

& to finish up, that mix from the second Cream Live CD that said it was James Lavelle but think was The Psychonauts who actually mixed it..?

A TOUR OF LIVERPOOL CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE | MAY 2016

Various photos from a solo walk around Liverpool city centre, on the look out for 20th century concrete architecture....

 

 

   

If you'd like to know more about this kind of architecture then join the Liverpool Modernist Society - they run a whole range of tours around the city and are part of wider Modernist Society groups, who also publish the excellent Modernist Magazine. 

Plus they make ace badges, worn by people of note

#Liverpool #RadioCity #tower #aerialview #skyline #horizon

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THE ABANDONED ST PETER'S SEMINARY | CARDROSS SCOTLAND

Drone Photograph: Alamy

Tried to get tickets for Hinterland last weekend but it was sold out, the last two days of a run that marked the start of Scotland's Festival Of Architecture 2016. The show was hailed a huge success with lots of great reviews, hence the rush on tickets. 
       
Hinterland was taking place at the abandoned St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, a disused Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll & Bute in Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it has been described by the international architecture conservation organisation DOCOMOMO as a modern "building of world significance"

 I popped up to Cardross at 6am (my gran lives nearby) & had a wander around the site, or at least what was accessible.

Got in via this bridge...

 

 St Peter's Seminary is due for refurbishment and a rebuild, hopefully starting later this year...

**BONUS GLASGOW BRUTALIST PHOTOS**

Later in the day I went up to Glasgow to spot a few more Modernist / Brutalist architecture examples...