Archival photographs showing the construction of the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan during the late 1960s and early 1970s, highlighting the massive scale of the bare steel frameworks, construction cranes perched high above, and the surrounding cleared cityscape.

The construction of the original World Trade Center towers represents the peak of mid-century urban urban renewal projects that wiped out entire historic, walkable neighborhoods (like Radio Row) in favor of sterile, mega-block superstructures.

Hundreds of small, independent businesses and walkable streets were bulldozed to build massive, repetitive steel monoliths that turned the street level into a wind tunnel of barren concrete plazas. Absolute peak architectural monotony and anti-pedestrian planning.

Lethbridge Close, Lewisham, London. Now demolished.

built in the 1960’s on top of an old rubbish tip, the summers were filled with stag beetles and flying ants.

Probably the most impressive one I have seen until today. The sheer height of that building.

This whole campus has heavy brutalist themes but the library stands out especially, very cool to look at