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Arranged by inner London Borough, Brutal London includes examples such as Trellick Tower, Brunswick Centre and many others.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205791908018,"sku":"9781910463635","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910463635_5a00126c-4648-4c37-8088-a33424a12c2e.jpg?v=1786029220"},{"product_id":"9781914613548","title":"Brutal Wales \/ Cymru Friwtalaidd","description":"Representing a new era in Simon Phipps ongoing photographic survey of the UK comes Brutal Wales - perhaps his most visually stunning book yet. With a huge variety of form, detail and photographic atmosphere this is a tribute to not only an era of architecture and a period of political optimism but also a specifically Welsh style and rugged substance. From Conwy Civic Hall to Trostre Steelworks, Tredegar Library to Newport Bridge there are over 60 structures, some, like Margam Crematorium have been rarely photographed and others, such as an electricity substation in Swansea, are hardly known. Beautifully produced and with a new format as befits a devolved nation within the United Kingdom, the book also contains introductory essays in both Welsh and English.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44203747508402,"sku":"9781914613548","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781914613548_57ce90fd-b366-40c4-ad59-d39cffcf2f21.jpg?v=1786030783"},{"product_id":"9781910463123","title":"Concrete Poetry: Post-war Modernist Public Art","description":"The Post-War period of progressive civic architecture and art gave rise to some of the UK's most important pieces of publically owned artwork. Acclaimed photographer Simon Phipps journeyed around the UK uncovering forgotten treasures as well as unexplained losses. This is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist context and a celebration (and lament) for the extraordinary works produced in a period of systemic support and commissioning in the Arts. There is also an urgency to this photographic survey, as many crucial works have been lost or destroyed.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308443218293,"sku":"9781910463123","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910463123_9be6716a-0e9f-43f6-8a4a-5bbed6501cad.jpg?v=1786029217"},{"product_id":"9781912836154","title":"Brutal North","description":"Powerful images by acclaimed photographer Simon Phipps exploring the modernist architecture of cities and new towns of the North from the Sandcastle and Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts in Liverpool, Hadrian Bridge in Newcastle and the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee to estates such as Park Hill in Sheffield and Edith Avenue in Durham. With city and region maps and detailed listings of all the architecture photographed, it also encourages readers to explore more Brutalism across the north of Britain.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309194719605,"sku":"9781912836154","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781912836154_7dc88e3a-42ce-44f6-94a6-5de85ee585c8.jpg?v=1786030686"},{"product_id":"9781914613166","title":"Brutal Outer London","description":"Simon Phipps' photographs of the modernist architecture of Greater London explores the form and beauty of these post war buildings. Following on from his iconic first book, Brutal London, this sequel expands his survey beyond London's inner zones through to the outer perimeters of London, encircled by the M25, and the modernist ambition, scale and structure of these buildings are starkly rendered in his acclaimed photographs. He offers us a chance to look at these everyday buildings in residential, retail and leisure hubs again and appreciate the civic optimism and bold architecture of the 60s and 70s.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309240234357,"sku":"9781914613166","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781914613166_6f2477a3-8f08-4756-b0e0-aac06c76924e.jpg?v=1786030766"},{"product_id":"9781914613883","title":"Brutal Scotland","description":"ARCHITECTURAL BOOK AWARDS 2026 - WINNER A major new photographic survey of Scotland’s post-war architecture by acclaimed photographer of Modernist buildings, Simon PhippsMany of the new buildings that were constructed in the dynamic, socially motivated period of post-war architecture have now been repurposed, pulled down or left to slowly decay. But others still serve their community. Their impact is beautifully and boldly visible in Phipps’ photographs. From the Post Office of Inverness to the Gala Fairydean Rovers Football Club stand in Galashiels, these stadiums and homes, leisure centres and fire stations, churches and libraries, were built for a people and nation in flux, the architects envisioning a new era of opportunity.   Their popularity may have declined by the turn of the century, but recent decades have seen a new recognition of the talent and epochal spirit that created lecture halls and banks with equal emphasis on form, utility and function.   ‘Impelled by ambitions of nation-building, Scotland’s outstanding cache of Brutalist buildings gave shape to how people lived, worked, studied, shopped, worshipped and spent their leisure time.’Catherine Slessor, from the introduction to Brutal Scotland","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368238428533,"sku":"9781914613883","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781914613883_a30f8d36-1926-464d-8a8b-434859e25d8f.jpg?v=1786030806"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-simon-phipps.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}