I grew up in a city called Coventry in the UK- if you like brutalist architecture it was paradise. For me, it was a decaying, grey, tumour-ridden, thorny & hid

I grew up in a city called Coventry in the UK- if you like brutalist architecture it was paradise. For me, it was a decaying, grey, tumour-ridden, thorny & hideous hell-hole. The whole city center was wrapped[0] in a snaking, concrete slabbed, elevated road.[1] Every corner of every stairwell waiting to take its toll out of your flesh with its sharp edges. The grey of the sky blending without contrast into the towering blocks of a building so revered that it would be eponymous with the city[2] and dominated the city center[3] yet was quite literally so forgettable that I could not tell you how large it was or what it looked like- despite seeing it daily. And flanked on all sides by dingy towers[4], each identical, cold, and somehow peering at you: telling you that this place was poor, poor not only in funds, but poor in culture, beauty or any sense of personality. No, it was shit. Fuck brutalist architecture and the car dependent designers of the 60’s. They destroyed even more of what was a beautiful city than the blitz did. Even King Charles said as much “property developers have been more destructive […] than Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe.” Pictures (that, if anything, make it look much better): https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/27/coventry-city-of-culture-brutalist-architecture-in-pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/27... [0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Coventry_city_centre_and_ring_road_%28cropped%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Coventry... [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Moat_street_flyover_2.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Moat_str... [2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Coventry_Point%2C_Market_Way%2C_Coventry_%28geograph_2929944%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Coventry... [3]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/WTC_Anthony_%26_Henri_ThreeSpires6.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/WTC_Anth... [4]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Samuel_vale_house_16s07.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Samuel_v...