Hello, and welcome to Modernist Delights, a blog where I hope to share my fondness for modernist and brutalist architecture. I have a particular love of anything geometric, be that office buildings or car parks.
My name is Tom, and the idea for the blog was born out of my photo gallery, already overflowing with years of photos of these structures. It seemed a shame to let them linger unseen, confined for my own private viewing.
To me, these buildings represent a (perhaps nostalgic) vision of promise and looking to the future. A past where even quotidian buildings like car parks could be beautiful, rather than just exist as conduits for private equity investment.
One summer I got a bit too into photographing staircases exposed behind thin-framed windows (and never really stopped), so let’s start as we mean to go on with a picture of the Renold Building, its’ staircase photographed from Charles Street, set against a rare Mancunian blue sky.
I can’t promise posts will be regular, but I’ll try my best to post every now and then. I’m also not an architect or a scholar - I’m going to post what I like, even if it doesn’t strictly conform to the definitions of modernism or brutalism. My run down office building blog, my rules!
