Stop the Crazy Brits

The notorious Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, south east London – used as the gritty backdrop for the film Nil By Mouth – is being demolished and a new 4,000 home suburb built in its place.

For fucks sake.
Aylesbury Estate, soon to follow suit and be demolished and “regenerated”, probably as something equally revolting as the [...]

Commieblocks of the World (Pt. 1)

Some form of large-scale and high-rise public or social housing estates exist in most of the major cities around the world. Their characteristics are different in many regions, and sometimes drastically different within a region, sometimes depending on from where certain influences have come. In some areas, there are even subtle differences and unique designs [...]

SEARS TOWER, SEARS TOWER

On July 16, 2009, at 10:00 am Central Time, the building was officially renamed Willis Tower.
Sears Tower is Sears Tower. Structural names ought to be kept for historic consistency except when the nature of the business in the building is reflected in the name (if a structure housed a court but no longer do so, [...]

Paris Housing Estates

I love tower blocks.

The hate for the Tower block

“the massive scale prohibiting meaningful sense of community—“; “the anonymity of the grey concrete monoliths”; “a failed social experiment”;
Always, forever, in perpetuity, the hatred for the tower block ravages through society. High-rise housing is okay only if it is some flashy office skyscraper or a luxurious tower filled with enormous flats larger than a majority [...]