ugly buildings coffee table book! does it exist???

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i want to find some coffee table books, and i love to look at "ugly" buildings, i.e. derelict block of 70's flats, pre-fab bungalows etc.

Has anybody seen a coffee table book of these types of pictures?

How about a book about Brutalist architecture?

A friend received a book "Soviet Bus Stops"

Full of most interesting architectural delights. Very few of them attractive.

Maybe something like Eastern Blocks or Soviet Bus Stops ?

Not ugly buildings but various buildings which may contain ugly ones.

The English Buildings Book https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1850749698/ref=cmswwrcppapiii_cdF6Fb2SVVS79

These look like good books

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Simon-Phipps/e/B07JNS3XLW/ref=pdsbssbl2?pddrdw=dD4eq&pffrdp=2304238d-df78-4b25-a9a0-b27dc7bd722e&pffrdr=G1S4MHFPANQ0M5V5KGAY&pddrdr=586b31d2-118d-478e-8c86-edd4c475152e&pddrdwg=Pfwi5&pddrdi=1912836157

I do like Brutalism architecture for all its ugliness.

@Kapalika

How about a book about Brutalist architecture?

ooooh sounds interesting! err, just off to google what that is! thank you!!!

Crap Towns might appeal to you too.

The Barbican online shop has a few interesting books focussing on brutalist architecture

One of my weird Pinterest boards is all Brutalist buildings

You lot are the best. I’m investigating all of the above now. Thank you!

I work in an area of brutalist architecture (as in a physical area, not "the field of")
I find it beautiful in its ugliness

Randomly, I was just looking at this today: uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com/

I love brutalism, too!

OP you may also find the books on British roundabouts interesting, too.

Yes, brutalist architecture, abandoned soviet buildings, anything in that vein will be right up your street I think.

We’ve got a book called CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. And another called Soviet Ghosts.

[quote GravityFalls]Randomly, I was just looking at this today: uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com/[/quote]
We were looking at that just the other day!

Also love brutalist buildings. Give me a bit of angular concrete to look at and I’m happy.

You want to get over to Instagram

www.instagram.com/modernistestates/
www.instagram.com/explore/tags/brutalism/
www.instagram.com/barbican_fan/
www.instagram.com/explore/tags/socialistmodernism/

You might also like sites dedicated to the planning of New Towns (places like Harlow) and development/rebuilding of places like Sheffield or Glasgow in the post war period.

As someone who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s thinking these places had just randomly developed like that, it was eye-opening to find out how much optimism, hope and intention had gone into their planning.

I also think looking at it from that perspective gives you a balanced view of how people really live in these environment, whereas a coffee table book will choose the finest and best preserved examples.