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Carter Is Brutal
December 21, 2005

I was glad to see The Tower in Colliers Wood included in Channel 4's Demolition series - And it's apparently topping the polls! I used to live in the shadow of it and it is an eyesore. What I found worse though was the almost continual vortex of wind that seemed to whip around it. I'm all for Brutalist architecture but this is extreme brutalism!

The only trouble with these concrete structures is they don't appear to age too well. I don't mean they look dated just they don't weather well. They look tatty. As far as I can tell, peple have objected to this building since it was built about 40 years ago but what makes it worse is the fact that it is now empty. The cost of demolishing it would be fantastic though. It sits over the Northern Line and there are shops and a school around it. So what happens if it finishes top of the poll?

Still, if it saves Gateshead Multi-Storey Car Park [famous of course for being the location where Corrie's Alf Roberts gets thrown from in Get Carter] - It seems unlikely that it will though - So much so that I'm thinking of going up to take some shots of it while I can, in the New Year. There's a whole lot of other stuff I want to do up there as well - Oddly enough, Rob [The GingerDJ to you!] posted an image of another of Owen Luder's [multistorey architect] work - The Tricorn Centre, that used to be in Portsmouth but has already been demolished. The image is from a postcard produced by the Caravan Gallery.

The Caravan Gallery is a mobile exhibition venue and visual arts project run by artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale who are on a mission to record the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain. Eager to examine clichés and cultural trends, they are particularly drawn to absurd anomalies and curious juxtapositions, typical of places in transition and in the process of reinventing themselves. They don't have any dates for where they will be in 2006 yet - but keep an eye out for them.

A couple of things via Things - The Pi Project - mathematical music. Mmmm... Also the Bogus Tribute To Douglas Coupland Blog. They also mention Andy Rosen's Punk Photos that have been mentioned all over the place but are well worth a look.

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