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| | SocietyGuardian.co.uk Society England's postwar listed buildings |
 | | The wrecking of the Firestone building led to a wave of suggestions for the listing of modern buildings, and particularly those that, like that Blackpool shrine, were overlooked by the majority of architectural historians or dismissed as being in poor taste. |
| | Uncompromising and bombastic, both distinctive buildings were criticised at the time of their construction, the bus garage because its dramatic concrete shell structure was of German origin (not good in 1940s England) and the theatre because it seemed to use concrete too aggressively, even by the standards of the 1970s. |
| | Between the two is a cornucopia of churches, bridges, schools, grand private houses and humble pre-fabs; buildings, in fact, of every conceivable postwar English purpose and persuasion. |
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