Sixties Concrete

1. Known as the Northern Polytechnic in days when this mural in exposed aggregate concrete was produced. It is still as good as the day it was finished; however, it is now a University. After all, it was finished nearly half a century ago, and things change.

2. Leon House, one of the first office buildings in what was to become a mini New York, namely Croydon. Highly experimental, as it was a structural column, it must remain. If it is removed, the building would collapse.

3. A link corridor between two school blocks. As a matter of interest, the Americans paint and maintain concrete structures, in England we do not. This results in scruffy buildings, there appears to be an introvert emotion which follows Ruskin's "Stones of Venice".

4. One of several sculptures for the BART in San Francisco.

5-9. Examples of major structures executed in various ways, both cast "in situ" and pre-cast. 6-9 are interesting, being an early example of "rolling" formwork, using continuous pouring to give a monumental appearance.