Thanks @TMOWilkinson for asking me to pick 10 loathed buildings.
Doing something slightly different I thought I'd share 10 demolished buildings I loved or would have loved to have seen. I'm limiting myself to post-1945 demolitions & to the UK - otherwise Cluny would be number 1
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10. St Benedict's, Drumchapel by Gillespie Kidd & Coia (1970-1991). Andy Macmillan & Isi Metzstein, who designed it, had so many buildings demolished (many listed) they set up the Rubble Club, an organisation open to architects who have had buildings destroyed in their lifetime.pic.twitter.com/1EWSglMF62
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There is an assault on the finest post-war architecture happening now on a scale equal to if not exceeding the assault on Victorian architecture in the post-war period - often its ideological driven, but sometimes just carelessness. We will regret it. Join the
@C20Society.pic.twitter.com/t4c8HyzCmB
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Heartbreaking & so true. Was there a reason for its destruction?
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It was in a, not very nice, underpass but could easily have been moved. I cried when I saw pictures of it being smashed. Bastards.
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I remember this mural, it was a proud part of the city. There was plans to carefully move it and put it in a museum or something, but the council sent someone in underhand to tear it down before anyone could drum up any protest and delay them
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That's a point I've been making about the strange silence of the

brigade to the steady loss of our architectural and street scape heritage.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I had a student who wrote about this in my iconoclasm seminar this spring
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The deliberate destruction of that mural is sad to see. It should have been transferred to a museum.
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Travesties all, the demolition of the mural was a disgrace
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