tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912742963368399051.post429837666846949950..comments2023-04-12T02:10:16.610-07:00Comments on Sea Songs: What would entirely new football grounds built circa 1960 or circa 1970 have looked like?Robin Carmodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912742963368399051.post-41966126990402702302010-04-18T08:39:10.756-07:002010-04-18T08:39:10.756-07:00Not football, but rugby grounds, the National Stad...Not football, but rugby grounds, the National Stadium and Cardiff RFC ground in Cardiff Arms Park fall smack in that period: 1969-70. They should be of help, and one of them's still there (though the main club moved out last year). I've only got the vaguest memory of the National Stadium (as no-one ever called it) before it became the Millennium Stadium, but uncompromising brutalism is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Arms_Park" rel="nofollow">about right</a>.<br /><br />Thanks for the brilliant blog, which I found out about from the footnote in <i>Militant Modernism</i>.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02206087180084777715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912742963368399051.post-17498077230012181722010-04-18T04:35:25.743-07:002010-04-18T04:35:25.743-07:00Very thought-provoking post.
It is easy to imagin...Very thought-provoking post.<br /><br />It is easy to imagine brutalist football grounds rather like the design of Thamesmead, as utilised in Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange". They might have given more excuse to the Thatcherite and petit-bourgeois critics, once public opinion decisively began to turn against modernist architecture. When would you say that was? The collapse of Ronan Point as early as 1968? Or later? The Byker Wall was constructed in the late 1970s, but with an extensive amount of public consultation compared with most earlier modernist housing projects. There is clearly unease by the time of "King of the Castle" (1977) and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1qpf9hogI0<br /><br />Residents of Park Hill and the Hulme Crescents have spoken up for them, in many documentaries on the subjects. Well worth reading on this subject is Owen Hatherley's 'So Much to Answer For: Post Punk Urbanism in Manchester' in the current "Loops" issue.<br /><br />I visited Sheffield and Hillsborough (for a Roy Keane era Sunderland away game) in 2006/7. Both Park Hill and Hillsborough itself seemed contrasting visions of the future abandoned. Hillsborough was a fine ground; very redolent of the Macmillan era, I agree.Tom Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12926419257352932141noreply@blogger.com