Trellick Tower

That terrifyingly ugly 1960's block of council flats (I call it the Orwellian Nightmare Building) is now a listed building, believe it or not.

This is beautiful compared to some of the post-modern nightmares.
Must be paradise for train-spotting anoraks, if any live there.

Where is it?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellick_Tower

Postmodern buildings, however ugly, don't usually give nightmares, but this brutalist 60's building does. It's a blend of 1984 (in which government buildings were deliberately designed to hold the population in subjugation and terror) and the ultra-utilitarian Brave New World.

Thank you for the interesting link about Trellick Tower. Brutal as these concrete structures are, I still prefer them to the impervious glass monstrosities they're building now. Concrete does at least weather slightly.

Except that in the case of concrete (unlike brick, tile or stone) weathering means acquiring a stained and dirty veneer - as it weathers, it gets even uglier.

You put "listed building" in inverted commas. In your picture it's certainly listing - to Starboard. Hopes of its falling down, however, are dim.

Listing to port, I would have thought.

But better a dirty veneer than a coloured eyesore.like this, for example.

1. Not if that's the front of the building. Anyway, no one who lives in such a place drinks port.

2. The orange may contain Vitamin C, and at least, for now, it's jolly rather than dreary.

You have strange taste if you find that jolly. To me, it is visual clutter, accentuating windows that are not worthy of such emphasis. I prefer dreary to screech.

You're right. Jolly is how the architect/planner wants it to seem, not how I myself find it. There's a new motel near here - www.hilton.com/en/hotels/loneahx-hampton-london-ealing - and from the outset I found it an extreme visual irritation. The colourful embellishment is more in keeping with a funfair in a decaying seaside resort than a London suburb.