deadhead Looks suspiciously like Ed’s roof:

    2 months later

    Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    • Amps

      • Post #89

      This popped up again. Brutalism in the wild etc. What UNVRS should have looked like.

      13 days later

      Only a mock up, but the planting makes it.

        Amps some of these AI architecture designs I’ve seen have been incredible. Will be interesting to see if it has much influence on future buildings

          5 days later

          Different view of the crescents in Hulme, dated around 76.

          Might not be very interesting for those not familiar!

            Mad_Cyril Always a familiar sight to me, whenever we would drive into Manchester when I was a kid it was M56 then up Princess Parkway past these (as opposed to the Thelwall Viaduct-M62 route).

            The ultimate, quite horrifying realisation of Corbusier’s maxim ‘A house is a machine for living in’.

            What the whole of Britain would look like if Amps were in charge.

            Despite the squat parties and creative spark that emerged from these places, we’re much better off without them.

            Something about the British psyche perhaps that turns this style of living into one giant cesspit*. Hong Kongers live like this every day (including the walkways in the sky).

            *Terrible construction could also have played a part, of course.

            • Amps replied to this.

                Have to say there weren’t any buildings like that growing up in Hampton Court.

                In a way, I loved and was fascinated by the urban decay of parts of Manchester when I was younger.

                Also remember the cavernous, sprawling old Victoria station (before they chopped it down in size and built the then Nynex Arena over the top of it).

                Litter and even rubble on the tracks. Diesel fumes. Rusted metal bridges falling apart. You can almost smell the place from the photos. No Pret a Manger in sight.

                  Smallman1 Only people from the North West would feel the nostalgia.

                  Probably why you got glassed when you came up.

                    I got glassed because I came up from the South and didn’t feel the nostalgia?

                    Not sure you’ve thought that through Dave.

                    Here’s a pic Dave getting twatted, in Hulme, for rocking up at Sankeys in his best neon ‘crasher kid outfit and handing out lollipops.

                    Talk about failing read the room

                    The real irony is, that whilst the Hulme projects were knocked down a long time ago, large swathes of Merseydive still aren’t up to the same living standards of mid 1980’s Hulme.

                    The county Dave tentatively calls home is still bathed in squalor whilst Mcr is a thriving metropolis.

                    Fur Q Dave, you ginger BERK

                      Mad_Cyril The county Dave tentatively calls home is still bathed in squalor

                      Cheshire? (I’ve lived in 3 counties in England, MC - Cheshire, Warwickshire, and Greater London - and not one of them is ‘bathed in squalor’)

                      Not sure you’ve thought this through MC.

                      Fuck me, I was only ‘engaging’ with your post, not sure you’ll have many other takers reminiscing good or bad about the Hulme Crescents.

                        Mad_Cyril Fur Q Dave, you ginger BERK

                        Quite telling that you’re obviously in some kind of ‘mood’ today though. Lost this month’s mortgage on the high-stakes gamblers I assume. Or maybe the Ozempic is having its well-known depressive side effects.