🇬🇧 Brutalist Beauty in Bloomsbury: The Brunswick Centre 🏗️✨
📍 Brunswick Centre, Russell Square, London WC1N 1AE This 1972 concrete megastructure isn’t Berlin or Moscow – it’s London’s best-preserved Brutalist icon, where daily life unfolds inside a sci-fi film set. 🏗️ Architectural Drama ✔️ Patrick Hodgkinson’s stepped concrete terraces ✔️ Raw material honesty – no hiding those board-marked concrete seams ✔️ Ziggurat silhouette that glows gold at sunset 📸 Hidden Details We Spied ◼️ Corridor colonnades – a "concrete symphony" of repeating lines ◼️ Vintage signage straight from Blade Runner’s dystopia ◼️ Sunlight slicing through balcony gaps like laser grids 🛍️ Modern Life Inside ✔️ Residential upper floors (private terraces with killer views) ✔️ Ground-level buzz: Waitrose, Curzon cinema, indie shops ✔️ Brutalist benches perfect for people-watching 🌟 Why Architects Love It ✔️ Pioneering "megastructure" concept ✔️ Recently restored (but kept its rugged soul) ✔️ Filming location for 28 Days Later and Attack the Block 🚶 How to Visit ✔️ Russell Square tube (2 min walk) ✔️ Best light: 4-6pm summer sun angles ✔️ Secret spot: Rooftop garden (ask nicely) #BrutalistLondon #ConcretePoetry #UrbanArchitecture #LondonBuildings #Brutalism #CityPorn #ArchitectureLovers #HiddenLondon #SciFiVibes