wasn't sure if this is the right place for this but...

some fascinating black and white shots

Thank you for sharing these photographs, Royston.

You're in the right place and it's a good article.

Modernist / Brutalist architecture is an interesting thing. Some of it does look good but a lot deserves being pulled down. I personally enjoy looking at this style, I find it fascinating.

Another example - the Hollings Building, now closed and part of the Manchester Metropolitan University, was known as the toast rack.

This one is imo.a blot on the landscape.
City of my birth Selfridges Birmingham.

Landscaped skyline :)

(pic taken by moi)