55-61 Watergate Street, Chester
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55-61 Watergate Street, Chester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 17 Aug 2014
The challenge of inserting a modern building into an historic city centre usually exposes architects' and/or developers' limitations and results in calamity and ugliness, but here the architects, Bradshaw, Rowse & Harker Associates, rose to the occasion. A remarkably successful slice of Brutalism amid the black-and-white and Georgian brick. Dated 1970s.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.189709
Longitude
-2.894043