Thanks @TMOWilkinson for asking me to pick 10 loathed buildings.

Doing something slightly different I thought I'd share 10 demolished buildings I loved or would have loved to have seen. I'm limiting myself to post-1945 demolitions & to the UK - otherwise Cluny would be number 1
1. Milton Court, by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, separate yet connected to the rest of the Barbican, & built to house various of the City's public services. It had a thrilling tough aesthetic of solids & voids. It was Geoffry Powell's personal favourite, but was demolished in 2008.
1. Milton Court, by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, separate yet connected to the rest of the Barbican, & built to house various of the City's public services. It had a thrilling tough aesthetic of solids & voids. It was Geoffry Powell's personal favourite, but was demolished in 2008.
1. Milton Court, by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, separate yet connected to the rest of the Barbican, & built to house various of the City's public services. It had a thrilling tough aesthetic of solids & voids. It was Geoffry Powell's personal favourite, but was demolished in 2008.
1. Milton Court, by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, separate yet connected to the rest of the Barbican, & built to house various of the City's public services. It had a thrilling tough aesthetic of solids & voids. It was Geoffry Powell's personal favourite, but was demolished in 2008.
2. The industrial landscape of Stoke on Trent. In the 1950s there were as many as 2000 bottle kilns, today only 47. Aerial view ironically juxtaposed to Oxford in W.G. Hoskin's guide, but bottle kilns must have made weird & wonderful townscape. Also, the winding gear at Shelton.
2. The industrial landscape of Stoke on Trent. In the 1950s there were as many as 2000 bottle kilns, today only 47. Aerial view ironically juxtaposed to Oxford in W.G. Hoskin's guide, but bottle kilns must have made weird & wonderful townscape. Also, the winding gear at Shelton.
2. The industrial landscape of Stoke on Trent. In the 1950s there were as many as 2000 bottle kilns, today only 47. Aerial view ironically juxtaposed to Oxford in W.G. Hoskin's guide, but bottle kilns must have made weird & wonderful townscape. Also, the winding gear at Shelton.
2. The industrial landscape of Stoke on Trent. In the 1950s there were as many as 2000 bottle kilns, today only 47. Aerial view ironically juxtaposed to Oxford in W.G. Hoskin's guide, but bottle kilns must have made weird & wonderful townscape. Also, the winding gear at Shelton.
2. The industrial landscape of Stoke on Trent. In the 1950s there were as many as 2000 bottle kilns, today only 47. Aerial view ironically juxtaposed to Oxford in W.G. Hoskin's guide, but bottle kilns must have made weird & wonderful townscape. Also, the winding gear at Shelton.
3. Rhyl Suncentre, by Gillinson Barnett & Partners, (opened 1980) had the world’s only internal rooftop monorail, electronically controlled boats for children, & an artificial surfing pool. Early leisure centres disappearing so there may be none left. This was demolished in 2016.
3. Rhyl Suncentre, by Gillinson Barnett & Partners, (opened 1980) had the world’s only internal rooftop monorail, electronically controlled boats for children, & an artificial surfing pool. Early leisure centres disappearing so there may be none left. This was demolished in 2016.
3. Rhyl Suncentre, by Gillinson Barnett & Partners, (opened 1980) had the world’s only internal rooftop monorail, electronically controlled boats for children, & an artificial surfing pool. Early leisure centres disappearing so there may be none left. This was demolished in 2016.
4. St Saviour's Bolton, by Paley & Austin (1885, demolished 1975). The extraordinary St George's Stockport gives a sense of what a loss this was. Picking this partly for Ian Nairn's thundering & very moving tv eulogy for it: (watch from 8.00)
4. St Saviour's Bolton, by Paley & Austin (1885, demolished 1975). The extraordinary St George's Stockport gives a sense of what a loss this was. Picking this partly for Ian Nairn's thundering & very moving tv eulogy for it: (watch from 8.00)
4. St Saviour's Bolton, by Paley & Austin (1885, demolished 1975). The extraordinary St George's Stockport gives a sense of what a loss this was. Picking this partly for Ian Nairn's thundering & very moving tv eulogy for it: (watch from 8.00)
4. St Saviour's Bolton, by Paley & Austin (1885, demolished 1975). The extraordinary St George's Stockport gives a sense of what a loss this was. Picking this partly for Ian Nairn's thundering & very moving tv eulogy for it: (watch from 8.00)
5. Patrick Gwynne's Serpentine Restaurant, 1964, demolished 1990. RIBA have wonderful drawings - which give a sense. Now the site is, shamefully, a car park.
5. Patrick Gwynne's Serpentine Restaurant, 1964, demolished 1990. RIBA have wonderful drawings - which give a sense. Now the site is, shamefully, a car park.
5. Patrick Gwynne's Serpentine Restaurant, 1964, demolished 1990. RIBA have wonderful drawings - which give a sense. Now the site is, shamefully, a car park.
5. Patrick Gwynne's Serpentine Restaurant, 1964, demolished 1990. RIBA have wonderful drawings - which give a sense. Now the site is, shamefully, a car park.
6. The London Docks, built in the early 19th century, and closed in 1969. Dan Cruickshank recently shared on Instagram his incredible but tragic photographs of it in the Seventies, when it was about to go. Thank goodness same didn't happen to Liverpool.
6. The London Docks, built in the early 19th century, and closed in 1969. Dan Cruickshank recently shared on Instagram his incredible but tragic photographs of it in the Seventies, when it was about to go. Thank goodness same didn't happen to Liverpool.
6. The London Docks, built in the early 19th century, and closed in 1969. Dan Cruickshank recently shared on Instagram his incredible but tragic photographs of it in the Seventies, when it was about to go. Thank goodness same didn't happen to Liverpool.
6. The London Docks, built in the early 19th century, and closed in 1969. Dan Cruickshank recently shared on Instagram his incredible but tragic photographs of it in the Seventies, when it was about to go. Thank goodness same didn't happen to Liverpool.
6. The London Docks, built in the early 19th century, and closed in 1969. Dan Cruickshank recently shared on Instagram his incredible but tragic photographs of it in the Seventies, when it was about to go. Thank goodness same didn't happen to Liverpool.
7. Everyone who follows me knows I've been agitated about the demolition of power stations ( https://www.apollo-magazine.com/power-station-cooling-towers-deserve-to-be-saved/), but the loss of Ironbridge 'B' last year was particularly poignant, as the area shows how industrial heritage can be given a new life. Why not for 20th century?
7. Everyone who follows me knows I've been agitated about the demolition of power stations ( https://www.apollo-magazine.com/power-station-cooling-towers-deserve-to-be-saved/), but the loss of Ironbridge 'B' last year was particularly poignant, as the area shows how industrial heritage can be given a new life. Why not for 20th century?
7. Everyone who follows me knows I've been agitated about the demolition of power stations ( https://www.apollo-magazine.com/power-station-cooling-towers-deserve-to-be-saved/), but the loss of Ironbridge 'B' last year was particularly poignant, as the area shows how industrial heritage can be given a new life. Why not for 20th century?
7. Everyone who follows me knows I've been agitated about the demolition of power stations ( https://www.apollo-magazine.com/power-station-cooling-towers-deserve-to-be-saved/), but the loss of Ironbridge 'B' last year was particularly poignant, as the area shows how industrial heritage can be given a new life. Why not for 20th century?
8. Sorry this list is so London-centric.

John Bancroft's Pimlico School (1970-2010), described by the AJ as a ‘this 100-odd metre long, turreted, metallic grey thing lying in its own sunken rectangle.' This was unique, the replacement is guff.
8. Sorry this list is so London-centric.John Bancroft's Pimlico School (1970-2010), described by the AJ as a ‘this 100-odd metre long, turreted, metallic grey thing lying in its own sunken rectangle.' This was unique, the replacement is guff.
8. Sorry this list is so London-centric.John Bancroft's Pimlico School (1970-2010), described by the AJ as a ‘this 100-odd metre long, turreted, metallic grey thing lying in its own sunken rectangle.' This was unique, the replacement is guff.
8. Sorry this list is so London-centric.John Bancroft's Pimlico School (1970-2010), described by the AJ as a ‘this 100-odd metre long, turreted, metallic grey thing lying in its own sunken rectangle.' This was unique, the replacement is guff.
9. Kenneth Budd's Chartist Mural, Newport, 1978, smashed 2013.

I've been thinking about it recently as it shows the hypocrisy of the hullabaloo about 'erasing history' when a few of unloved statues of bigots are moved, when beautiful things disappear daily through carelessness.
9. Kenneth Budd's Chartist Mural, Newport, 1978, smashed 2013.I've been thinking about it recently as it shows the hypocrisy of the hullabaloo about 'erasing history' when a few of unloved statues of bigots are moved, when beautiful things disappear daily through carelessness.
9. Kenneth Budd's Chartist Mural, Newport, 1978, smashed 2013.I've been thinking about it recently as it shows the hypocrisy of the hullabaloo about 'erasing history' when a few of unloved statues of bigots are moved, when beautiful things disappear daily through carelessness.
9. Kenneth Budd's Chartist Mural, Newport, 1978, smashed 2013.I've been thinking about it recently as it shows the hypocrisy of the hullabaloo about 'erasing history' when a few of unloved statues of bigots are moved, when beautiful things disappear daily through carelessness.
9. Kenneth Budd's Chartist Mural, Newport, 1978, smashed 2013.I've been thinking about it recently as it shows the hypocrisy of the hullabaloo about 'erasing history' when a few of unloved statues of bigots are moved, when beautiful things disappear daily through carelessness.
10. St Benedict's, Drumchapel by Gillespie Kidd & Coia (1970-1991). Andy Macmillan & Isi Metzstein, who designed it, had so many buildings demolished (many listed) they set up the Rubble Club, an organisation open to architects who have had buildings destroyed in their lifetime.
10. St Benedict's, Drumchapel by Gillespie Kidd & Coia (1970-1991). Andy Macmillan & Isi Metzstein, who designed it, had so many buildings demolished (many listed) they set up the Rubble Club, an organisation open to architects who have had buildings destroyed in their lifetime.
10. St Benedict's, Drumchapel by Gillespie Kidd & Coia (1970-1991). Andy Macmillan & Isi Metzstein, who designed it, had so many buildings demolished (many listed) they set up the Rubble Club, an organisation open to architects who have had buildings destroyed in their lifetime.
10. St Benedict's, Drumchapel by Gillespie Kidd & Coia (1970-1991). Andy Macmillan & Isi Metzstein, who designed it, had so many buildings demolished (many listed) they set up the Rubble Club, an organisation open to architects who have had buildings destroyed in their lifetime.
10. St Benedict's, Drumchapel by Gillespie Kidd & Coia (1970-1991). Andy Macmillan & Isi Metzstein, who designed it, had so many buildings demolished (many listed) they set up the Rubble Club, an organisation open to architects who have had buildings destroyed in their lifetime.
There is an assault on the finest post-war architecture happening now on a scale equal to if not exceeding the assault on Victorian architecture in the post-war
period - often its ideological driven, but sometimes just carelessness. We will regret it.

Join the @C20Society.
There is an assault on the finest post-war architecture happening now on a scale equal to if not exceeding the assault on Victorian architecture in the post-warperiod - often its ideological driven, but sometimes just carelessness. We will regret it. Join the @C20Society.
There is an assault on the finest post-war architecture happening now on a scale equal to if not exceeding the assault on Victorian architecture in the post-warperiod - often its ideological driven, but sometimes just carelessness. We will regret it. Join the @C20Society.
There is an assault on the finest post-war architecture happening now on a scale equal to if not exceeding the assault on Victorian architecture in the post-warperiod - often its ideological driven, but sometimes just carelessness. We will regret it. Join the @C20Society.
There is an assault on the finest post-war architecture happening now on a scale equal to if not exceeding the assault on Victorian architecture in the post-warperiod - often its ideological driven, but sometimes just carelessness. We will regret it. Join the @C20Society.
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