Tim Evans

The photograph does not show the student residences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Its some other brutalist creation somewhere else in the UK. The UEA residences were designed in the early 60s by Denys Lasdun and are universally admired. I was a student there in the 70s and adored the ziggurat shape of the buildings . It was both beautiful and futuristic and has stood the test of time. Nothing brutal about it at all. Compare, though, with Waveney Terrace (since demolished ) built later on and on the cheap: