Tag: Westway
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The Westway: A Concrete River Through London’s Past
If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic on the Westway, cursing the gods of urban planning as your car inches forward, it might not feel like you’re travelling through history. But this hulking stretch of elevated motorway, slicing through the city like a brutalist sword, is one of London’s most fascinating and controversial pieces of…
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The Battleship Building: Westway’s Nautical Landmark
London is full of buildings that make you stop and ask, Why? The concrete building that resembles a battleship that looms over the Westway is one such building . A Brutalist Birth If there’s one architectural style that divides opinion like Marmite on crumpets, it’s brutalism. Raw concrete, imposing angles, a distinct lack of frills—these are…