(N.B. this page is under construction, comments are welcome)
Inspired by the concrete structures of World War Two, brutalist architecture was ubiquitous in the 1960s around the World. Named after the French term for rough cast concrete ‘Beton Brut” and not it’s monumental stature.
Port Hill / Gallowgate
Wide / Establish Shots
(Mid Relation Shots)
West North Street Car Park
Utilitarian infrastructure can be shaped to follow the surrounding landscape. As this example of a car park in Aberdeen shows, as it follows the contours of a city centre high point.
Hutcheon Street / Mounthooly
Castlehill
On the site of the original Castle and infantry barracks sits an identical development to Seamount.
