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Greyscape celebrates Brutalist, Modernist and Constructivist architecture. We bring you a carefully considered edit of the best examples of those designs from around the world.

Greyscape was born out of a passion for under-appreciated 20th Century design. Originally launched in 2016 as a passion project an Instagram account, our audience grew fast, with thousands sharing a similar interest in game-changing buildings. We now have an unrivalled position as a crowdsourced archive of little and well-known architecture. Greyscape is a destination where everyone can learn, share and interact with the very best in Brutalism, Modernist and Constructivist design.

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That moment when you come out of the station at Ba

That moment when you come out of the station at Barbican, it’s 7pm it’s a beautiful spring evening and the sunlight has a warm, golden quality, casting long, soft shadows across the landscape signaling the slow transition from day to night.

The City of London was in desperate need of a post

The City of London was in desperate need of a post-war plan. Blitzed by the Nazis, financially hobbled by six years of war, the Corporation, the City’s governing institution dating back 1000 years needed to bring people and business to the Square Mile. People were needed in order that the City retained political influence through representation in Parliament and business, well, because employment and taxes were needed. The support of the Conservative Minister of Housing in Sir Anthony Eden’s government (1955 – 1957), Duncan Sandys (Winston Churchill’s son-in-law and the rumoured ‘headless man’), paved the way to the building of the Barbican Centre, an arts hub. Agreeing that the best way forward was to create a community and an arts centre rivalling its counterparts in other major Western European cities is one thing – getting there – to the Queen laying the Foundation Stone in November 1982, was fraught, punctuated with setbacks, escalating costs, disagreement and strikes. Today the area has realised the vision, it is part neighbourhood, part arts centre and all round brutalist architectural triumph. Who today would agree to design something as bold as a brutalist waterfall and incorporate a lake that is big enough to impact the feeling of the whole space?

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