Britannia Hotel, Coventry, from Hill Top
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Britannia Hotel, Coventry, from Hill Top
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 7 Jun 2021
Unlovely modernism: the brutalist, bare-concrete Britannia Hotel, seen from the back, poised over Fairfax Street like a giant sewing machine. It was built in 1972 as the De Vere Hotel; the architects were G R Stone and J Ward. https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1962/3/Coventry%20Guide%202%20Corrected.pdf The contrast between this building and the historic houses and church architecture above it, around Hill Top, is one of the most striking, or jarring, of many such juxtapositions in central Coventry. Beyond the hotel can be seen Pool Meadow bus station.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.409597
Longitude
-1.507336