Brutalism, my favourite 
Those are great.
St Peter’s Seminary. A brutalist masterpiece built pretty much in the middle of nowhere about 25 miles outside of Glasgow. It was a originally built as a catholic priest training school but soon fell out of favour and was abandoned. There has been various attempts to repurpose it which have all failed due to funding. Hopefully someone will rescue it before it falls to bits.
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Now it attracts keen photographers, brutalism buffs, graffiti artists and the odd dog walker.
Lots more pictures and a bit of back story
Life after death? Resurrecting a modern ruin - BBC News
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This has been a cause celebre for as long as I can remember.
Sadly I can’t see it suddenly being sorted out.
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Unfortunately I have to agree, it’s going to crumble. If it was in the middle of London or another big European city it would be celebrated and protected as a national monument.
Personally I like all of the curves, when I think brutal I think blocky and function before form. This manages brutal with beautiful curves and arcs throughout.
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You OK Hun? 
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Barbican has the same aesthetic with arches/tubular forms etc.
Stunning, and even more so with nature moving in
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Now listed.
Take that, vandal developer knobheads.
Although now we’re likely to get Nadine Dorries wading in determined to knock it down, as per Dorman Long.
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I do hope that’s grade 2 and not grade 1, that decor is a tad challenging.
Not for me
Nope, nor me
Externally very nice bar the awful red paint
Internally,paint and wallpaper is really poor
I could sort it out at a very reasonable rate
Lovely core design and bones to that house. I can see what they’re trying to do with the colour scheme but they have lacked the skill to execute it to a high enough standard to pull it off.
I loved this place when I lived in Newington in the 80s. But arseholes gonna arsehole.
https://c20society.org.uk/news/development-threat-for-category-a-listed-scottish-widows-hq
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Love this!
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If it had been closer to Faringdon and we had not just signed the contracts on the new house I’d have been all over that!
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Nice land / views
