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The beauty of British brutalism

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Original – Lauderdale Tower, one of the four residential high-rises of London's Barbican Estate.

Reason: High-quality image that shows how an architectural style widely reviled today was originally meant to convey a welcoming sense of strength and protection
Articles in which this image appears: Barbican Estate
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Daniel Case

Support as nominator If it looks familiar, it's probably because you remember seeing it on your way to Wikimania 2014 when you got off the Tube at Barbican and looked up – Daniel Case (talk) 07:04, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support, high quality and EV. sst ✈ 14:01, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – The sort of building that's only good for jumping off in sheer aesthetic revulsion.

(Or maybe when the market tanks again & again & again.) Sca (talk) 15:25, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Jobas (talk) 17:40, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I like the building, and the photo to a point, but I really don't think the golden hour shot is ideal. Brutal should be grey :) - Wolftick (talk) 21:10, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I sort of thought so too, until I looked up from the Tube station entrance and saw this. The concrete is more brown than grey. A lot more. Daniel Case (talk) 21:30, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree concrete can and does colour, but in most photos of this building and in person, also typical of the material, it is at least grey-brown and far less yellow. I'm not asking for monochrome but I really don't think a golden hour shot does justice to the palette that typically characterises brutalist architecture. - Wolftick (talk) 21:47, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

To me this is actually a reminder of brutalism's origins, how the architects thought that the raw concrete would seem earthy, inviting and protective—because most of them were living in the sunny south of France at the time, and didn't stop to think about what raw concrete looks like in places with chronically overcast skies, ironically where most such buildings were ultimately erected. Daniel Case (talk) 20:11, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support —Bruce1ee^talk 05:03, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is a good photo of a relative tricky to photograph building given its crowded location, and has strong EV. I'm going to go out on a limb here and also say that it's a mildly attractive building - that said, I do live on the other side of the world from the thing so don't see it very often! Nick-D (talk) 23:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - The estate is not just this tower. And the time of day that this picture was taken misleads the viewer as to the actual colour of the buildings. - hahnch e n 21:47, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that there's any suggestion anywhere that the Barbican only consists of this tower. Nick-D (talk) 23:50, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- There isn't. But it does limit the photo's EV somewhat. My main point of opposition is the colour/time of day. - hahnch e n 00:07, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Lauderdale Tower, Barbican Estate, London.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:10, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]