About

Welcome to Modernist Delights, a blog where I hope to share my fondness for modernist and brutalist architecture. I have a particular love of anything geometric, be that office buildings or car parks.

My name is Tom, and the idea for the blog was born out of my photo gallery, already overflowing with years of photos of these structures. It seemed a shame to let them linger unseen, confined for my own private viewing.

To me, these buildings represent a (perhaps nostalgic) vision of promise and looking to the future. A past where even quotidian buildings like car parks could be beautiful, rather than just exist as conduits for private equity investment.

One summer I got a bit too into photographing staircases exposed behind thin-framed windows (and never really stopped), so let’s start as we mean to go on with a picture of the Renold Building, its’ staircase photographed from Charles Street, set against a rare Mancunian blue sky.

A quiet urban street lined with parked cars leads to a tall, modern white building with large glass windows. Brick buildings are on either side, and the left building has graffiti. The scene is lit by warm sunlight, casting long shadows.

I can’t promise posts will be regular, but I’ll try my best to post every now and then. I’m also not an architect or a scholar – I’m going to post what I like, even if it doesn’t strictly conform to the definitions of modernism or brutalism. My run down office building blog, my rules!