Carliol House and Commercial Union House, Pilgrim Street, NE1

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Carliol House and Commercial Union House, Pilgrim Street, NE1

Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 22 Apr 2015

See also Image Unfortunately, not only is Commercial Union House a particularly glaring example of early 1970's pre-cast concrete ****-you neo-brutalism, it also has the effrontery to jut out half-way across Pilgrim Street, thereby disrupting the views up and down this historic route - see Image A view north up Pilgrim Street is shown in Image The "Modern Architecture" website somewhat understates the awfulness of this building by saying that it makes "a negative contribution to the streetscape" http://manchesterhistory.net/architecture/1970/commercial.html . One of the highest ranking of Newcastle's Masterpieces of Modern Architecture https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=109769006 .

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