The Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, London. This brutalist monolith contrasts strongly with it neighbours in Bloomsbury. Its presence is impressive from outside but for me its the inside that really takes it to another level of brutalist living. The selection of pictures here are taken inside and around the east block, O’Donnel Court. Inside it has a feel of a modernist concrete Cathedral mixed with an industrial complex. Materials? Concrete, concrete and more concrete! This building was to have been about 2x longer and reach all the way to the Euston Rd but the land could not be obtained. Really would have been a megastructure! Strangely enough it was to have been painted cream in reference to Georgian terraces that once stood in its place, thankfully they ran out of money! Was also surprisingly built as private housing but sales were poor so the flats were leased to Camden Council to be used as social housing. Designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, built 1967-1972. Oh and always thought that there is a great similarity to the Futurist illustrations/designs by Antonio Sant’ Elia in the early 20th Century. I think he certainly would have approved of the Brunswick.