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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
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UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/artblog/2008/jun/26/
dontknockbrutalism
Brutalism
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/09/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/22/
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http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/apr/08/
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/feb/22/
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/
jonathan-meades-brutalism-a-z
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/27/
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/artblog/2008/jun/26/
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2011/jun/22/
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/20/
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Brutalist / brutalist UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/12/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/15/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/06/
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/10/
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http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/07/
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http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/04/
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/07/
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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 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
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/
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http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/
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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/
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