We were on a train from Slough this afternoon and I spotted this:
A Brutalist bookend-er of a building. I did a Street View search and found the name of it, and then the Wikipedia page for Trellick Tower. Stuff:
- There is an entry once every two floors is because each flat is a duplex
- It was designed by Erno Goldfinger, a Hungarian architect who hung out with Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier in Paris. And yes there’s a movie named after him
- It features prominently in a number of music videos, especially by Blur and Depeche Mode
Brutal + Beautiful.
Here’s a video from our whole day, which included Windsor Castle and Notting Hill: