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Otto Saumarez Smith

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Historian of shopping precincts, leisure centres, power stations, derelict landscapes, inner cities, new towns, & city centre redevelopment. @c20Society trustee

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    1. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      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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    2. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      1. Milton Court, by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, separate yet connected to the rest of the Barbican, & built to house various of the City's public services. It had a thrilling tough aesthetic of solids & voids. It was Geoffry Powell's personal favourite, but was demolished in 2008.pic.twitter.com/5ex43yDMZ2

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    3. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      2. The industrial landscape of Stoke on Trent. In the 1950s there were as many as 2000 bottle kilns, today only 47. Aerial view ironically juxtaposed to Oxford in W.G. Hoskin's guide, but bottle kilns must have made weird & wonderful townscape. Also, the winding gear at Shelton.pic.twitter.com/rUJPoBazht

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    4. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      3. Rhyl Suncentre, by Gillinson Barnett & Partners, (opened 1980) had the world’s only internal rooftop monorail, electronically controlled boats for children, & an artificial surfing pool. Early leisure centres disappearing so there may be none left. This was demolished in 2016.pic.twitter.com/ORY8dWCqKg

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    5. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      4. St Saviour's Bolton, by Paley & Austin (1885, demolished 1975). The extraordinary St George's Stockport gives a sense of what a loss this was. Picking this partly for Ian Nairn's thundering & very moving tv eulogy for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLb4bjd6_4&t=633s … (watch from 8.00)pic.twitter.com/jExfWRp2Vs

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    6. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      5. Patrick Gwynne's Serpentine Restaurant, 1964, demolished 1990. RIBA have wonderful drawings - which give a sense. Now the site is, shamefully, a car park.pic.twitter.com/BUjylUkU52

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    7. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      6. The London Docks, built in the early 19th century, and closed in 1969. Dan Cruickshank recently shared on Instagram his incredible but tragic photographs of it in the Seventies, when it was about to go. Thank goodness same didn't happen to Liverpool.pic.twitter.com/eaFeRhmW2x

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    8. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      7. Everyone who follows me knows I've been agitated about the demolition of power stations (https://www.apollo-magazine.com/power-station-cooling-towers-deserve-to-be-saved/ …), but the loss of Ironbridge 'B' last year was particularly poignant, as the area shows how industrial heritage can be given a new life. Why not for 20th century?pic.twitter.com/XloVxmYvEE

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    9. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      8. Sorry this list is so London-centric. John Bancroft's Pimlico School (1970-2010), described by the AJ as a ‘this 100-odd metre long, turreted, metallic grey thing lying in its own sunken rectangle.' This was unique, the replacement is guff.pic.twitter.com/m0jPxkGpbz

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      Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

      9. Kenneth Budd's Chartist Mural, Newport, 1978, smashed 2013. I've been thinking about it recently as it shows the hypocrisy of the hullabaloo about 'erasing history' when a few of unloved statues of bigots are moved, when beautiful things disappear daily through carelessness.pic.twitter.com/BvTXdPj4bp

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        2. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

          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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        3. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020

          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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        2. saya‏ @SayaSigns 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @OSaumarezSmith

          Heartbreaking & so true. Was there a reason for its destruction?

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        3. Otto Saumarez Smith‏ @OSaumarezSmith 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @SayaSigns

          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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        1. Nik Wolfe‏ @CaptainWolfe 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @OSaumarezSmith @chocosune

          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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        1. Paul K  😷 🦕 🚂‏ @Grumpeogh 9 Jul 2020
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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.

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        1. Sarah May‏ @Sarah_May1 9 Jul 2020
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          I had a student who wrote about this in my iconoclasm seminar this spring

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        1. Richard Smith‏ @rsmith99 10 Jul 2020
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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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        1. Pilgrim House‏ @thepilgrimworld 10 Jul 2020
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          Travesties all, the demolition of the mural was a disgrace

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