AlrightFlower

By AlrightFlower

Around campus: day 2

Not much opportunity for photos today - a combination of getting caught up in a million little things (from searching through someone else's emails to arranging for a non-flushing toilet to be fixed) and a horrible weather day. Snow, sleet, rain and general bloody chilliness made me reluctant to go outside!

So, a quick snap on the way to the car at the end of the day. This is a small section of the building I work in. To some, quite possibly the ugliest structure in the entire world. To others (and indeed legally) a grade II listed building. Designed in the 1960s by Chamberlin Powell and Bon, it's listed (with others linked to it on campus) because "they are excellent examples of post-war architectural design as influenced by Le Corbusier, both in their structural design using reinforced concrete and in their clean and sweeping lines used on a grand scale; they form a distinctive group, linked stylistically as well as physically, with repeated structural patterns of concrete beams and continuous glazing".

I can see that, I really can.

I also just like looking to see if I can see an intentional pattern in the glazing colours, or if they're accidental...

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