The golden era of buildings 

What’s also funny is that some places have been reintroducing common 1980s features with a modern twist to very recently renovated public places! :)

There's something so surreal about this era of architecture. So space-age and modern

These remind me of how the lifts in the Glades in Bromley used to be before they replaced everything. That opened around the same time as this and shares some of the same design principles.

4:43 this lift used to have a massive pre-door sadly no more

Epic building indeed ! I particularly like the stairs area with the plants and globe lights. Great video, I love the enthusiasm you have in your commentary ! The bit at the start (1:03) where you explain how the building in Gillingham was built is also very interesting

Awesome video Beno, a fantastic building to explore at !

Honestly I really love these buildings, however in my country (Sweden) the most dominant lift was the Kone M series, especially in these types of buildings

Fantastic video. I'm so with you on all this. And I'm originally from Birmingham.

Epic building! the ones here mostly had Otis glass elevators though or Dover.

I've only ever been to the ICC a couple times but I've always loved the way it has been designed. Especially those bridges. Shame nothing else is built like this now a days.

to be honest I don't really like hydraulic elevators/lifts either because of how long it takes for the motor to start up but in the US where I'm from they did make some nice ones with really awesome motor sounds

Icc reminds me of Uni-mail university in Geneva. In case if you come back one day in Geneva there are interesting lifts there. And in many other buildings

Look at Manchester airport terminal 2 because it gets demolished, built in the late 80s was a great building now it’s getting demolished for some crappy steel and cladding structure

Brutalist buildings are amazing and I wish they got more love. Another style that I wish we saw more of is Googie aka Raygun Gothic.

The ICC, Symphony Hall and later the new New Street train station are the best things built in Birmingham during modern times.

Think you may like the Cardiff council building in the bay and the Tax offices in Llanishen both are just starting to be torn down.

Fantastic biulding

Epic building, epic lifts! Those lifts don’t mess about! The doors slam, lift takes off like a rocket and then quickly stops and throws the doors open just as a lift should 👍

1960s to 2000s are THE BEST buildings.

The ICC reminds me a bit of Deira City Centre

Wasn't this building featured in the children's television series 'Brum'?

Hey Beno, I dare you to actually sleep ontop of a lift. (if you dont want to thats fine.) if you wanna be less risky do it in an abandoned building.

Right then! 😂

It’s like since the 2000s They stopped putting glass lifts in buildings on purpose

I thought you don’t like Birmingham or do you like some of the buildings in Birmingham.

Reminds me of the Castle Quarter (Formerly Castle Mall) in its early days before the glass atrium was filled in (to prevent falls from height), and before the 2005 Food Court extension filling in another atrium. There used to be a fountain outside Boots as well which is also gone. Lifts were really high end one of a kind KONE TMS Lifts from 1992 now all gone with KONE MonoSpaces except the glass lifts which have Lester controls from 2012 when ThyssenKrupp modernised them.

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These sorts of buildings are epic in Australia but unfortunately almost all of them have been heavily modernised/renovated in the 2000s or within the last 15 years and now look really bland and whitewashed with all of their colours replaced with stainless steel and shades of grey. On top of that they commonly replace all of their lifts cheap generic lifts or mid range Kone, Otis or Schindler lifts that will start showing signs of fatigue like a rough ride within 15 years of installation when the old lifts ran perfectly fine and were significantly older! Often when they modernise those buildings it completely involves the interiors being fully stripped down to nothing but a concrete shell and then it’s all rebuilt from scratch with a completely different modern and boring look while the exterior is often modified to run along with the same boring style.

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