QI is still a thing, along with shows presented by Prof Hannah Fry, Dr Adam Rutherford, Prof Alice Roberts, the not-dead-yet Attenborough and many more.
If I was any kind of lyricist, I'd have a go at creating some. But I'm not, so I'll just have to settle for saying that the words "concrete effigy" would likely be in there
@@leopold7562I was happy in the haze of a concrete car park But heaven knows I’m brutalist now I was looking for a space then I found a space And worthing knows I’m miserable now
1. Its not eligable for listing. 2. As a resident of this area , no one likes this building and most of us will be glad to see it gone. Its only redeeming factor is the pretty bowling alley underneath it. 3. There are other car parks built in this style very close by and in much more sensible locations.
@@leejack-qt2emreally only joking about the listing but it’s got a wonderful Blake’s 7 vibe going on. 😂. Make sure you get some idea of what they will replace it with. Bet you loose the bowling alley 😢. Sometimes it’s better the devil you know.
@@leejack-qt2emyour sort are the worst, local residents thinking they’re speaking for everybody. We’ve lost too much of this sort of iconic style in the UK in recent years.
@@royfontaine5526 Im not speaking for everybody , everybody i know hates it. Whether you like that sort of architecture is up to you. But you cant deny it sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the place. Rows of victorian and houses then a run down brutalist car park. Its like building a skyscraper in the middle of a tiny village. It just doesnt belong there. Not to mention it also stinks of piss and is in disrepair. There are also many other examples of this architecture within a mile of this building that are in better condition and in much more fitting places.
Had no idea you'd ever come to my home town. We used to have another multi-storey until 2018 in the currently awaiting redevelopment Teville Gate site (we have a lot of areas currently awaiting redevelopment here in Worthing). I kind of miss it, it was a landmark for me, the final sign that I was nearly at my dads house after 90 minute long drives from Hertfordshire every other weekend.
The contrasting vertical bands of white and buff colour blocks shows some thought went into it. It does have a characteristic and doesnt seem too bad, you dont have to have every building in a place looking , or attempting to look the same if the buildings are good enough. Being at the end of the A24 Worthing was handy for me, esp as a great aunty wanted a lift there a couple of times a year to see her friend- she got the train back
I have, and will likely never, travel to any of these locations for their designated tourist attractions, so I really don't understand why I'm so fascinated by videos about the *not* exciting details! Why? Because you make amazing content! Thank you!
Sometimes brutal is good, like the old Birmingham central library. Just a big concrete building with books and a Maccy Ds that has been replaced by a bit of Government debt and a glass building with no books.
Rotherham central library was like that and it was ace inside with a cafe, arts centre and museum. Replaced by a Tesco in 2014 and moved to the new council offices on the far side of town. Now the council are redeveloping the 70s market next to where it was and moving the library back.
Some of the brutalist architecture actually doesn’t look too “brutal” or displeasing. But what strikes me about most modernist construction is how poorly it ages. Even the well designed buildings look dreadfully shabby after 3 decades.
When done properly - (which often means on a massive, grand scale) architecture in the brutalist style (which has nothing to do with the word brutal), can be amazing. Some buildings in Noisy le Grand in Paris are good examples.
Jason Donovan my favourite. 😂😂 I'm sitting at the seaside on a Beach in September in Dunbar watching this and my wife and kids Paddle boarding. An excellent video as always Jon.
'We' (though I'd prefer to say they) have one of these in Cannock, Staffordshire. It's smaller and has been modified many times before closing a few years ago, but the brick tower and rounded windows were surely designed by the same person as it's so similar. The worthing one has faired better, Cannock is due to have theirs demolished soon. I love your videos, even if you are Kier Starmer's brother.
Looks great, and just look at how you can drive from one building into the next and up and down and back again! It's a day-sized fun for the whole family! Definitely a keeper!
I'm glad I never had to use that car park in all the time I went to and also lived in Worthing. The Buckingham Rd one you mentioned was right across from where I worked and the factory windows used to get smashed at weekends by kids throwing stones at them from the car park and my workbench, the main office and the other rooms along the south side as well as the workshops at ground level were often covered in glass on a Monday morning.
Me too. I remember when this was built - I was 9 or 10 - but I can't remember what was there before! Worthing Town Council had/have a reputation for destroying stuff. The Old TRown Hall being a good example in early 1960s!
Is that Avon? I had to look up sardonic as I thought it was the same as sarcastic. Also found cynicism and wit. We didn't take humour very seriously when I was at school.
@@David_Crayford That is indeed him! Yes it is actually one of my descriptions because it keeps people guessing which in itself gives a sardonic satisfaction
JD Sports in Worthing is in Montague Street. Look out for a blue Morris van parked in an alley. Not sure if it is blue after or before the respray - ask Leo Sayer.
Very positive and complimentary. Shows Jon can research and make a video on anything, explain it clearly, and make it informative and interesting. I would have found it too easy to moan about Worthing and car parks, but who would enjoy watching a video like that, even if it was true?
I do love Worthing and I’m glad you included that glorious cinema which has all original fittings and decor. And that pier is easily the best looking one I’ve even seen. Have to agree though that the car park is pretty cool. I love how you have those connecting bridges and I suspect you had great fun driving all around it. Reminded me a bit of a cross between the Italian Job and Get Carter (though obviously without the Mafia getting involved or seeing Alf Robert’s tossed off the stairwell to his death 🤔 The mere fact that it reminds me of two of my favourite films is enough I’d say to justify the cancellation of the demolition plans 😉🍻👍
I remember sitting in the Dome cinema watching 'Die Hard' and you could hear the buses coming and going from the bus station that used to be next door.
Hey, I live in Worthing! It could be worse; when I first moved here a few years ago, that particular building was a single, solid slab of grey. At least they’ve since gone to the effort of attempting to make it less dreary 😅
There are still some brutalist structures in Worthing. The Law Courts, the library (both original), the almost-finished building block of flats between them and the (slightly less built) Integrated Medical Centre. They go together as they are all on the same block, but do juxtapose the Art Deco Stoke Abbott Court to the north of that block. Many other modern blocks of flats are similar (such as Calista further down the coast on Grand Avenue).
There's a multistory car park in Brighton, all i can remember is there's an Asda at the bottom of it. Absolute nightmare with a larger car, shunts required to use the ramps to go in-between floors!
We have a worse car park on our sea front in Kirkcaldy it’s smaller but built from breeze block which really adds to the post apocalypse feel and atmosphere of the building.
If you like 1970s brutalist multistorey carparks you should see the one in Chatham, it has a bus station in it! Sadly the bus station is no longer used.
You came to Worthing - and I'd say you have done a fine job of telling the world about one of our most... Er... 'cherished' pieces of public architecture. A bit sad you didn't mention that this car park has it's own bowling alley...
Wait whut? i hope it isn't in one of those side structures as if it where up to me, i would get rid of those two and just keep the brutalist structure with that lovely front terrace.
Honestly, the fact that the condition of parking floor markings and the facade seems superb is a bit odd....if the council really doesn't give a shit, surely there would already cut corners in the maintenance and leave the facade in a much more drabby condition than this (which looks like as if the council is proud of the parking complex and want it to put on the heritage register....)
You want to go to Lee Circle in Leicester.... Now that's a ding dong but a listed ding dong. That's a double helix car park.... The first automatic car park in the UK, the location of the first Tesco hypermarket and it had valet parking. Opened by Sid James. Oh there's another one as well at Abbey Street.
That bit where you were bombing round the upper levels reminded me of the car park in GTA 5. Someone should make a ramp out of an old beer advert and r can try and complete the Worthing stunt jump.
My parents used to live in Worthing and I still visit the place two or three times a year for a few days at a time so it's nice to see the place gradually on the up. And I do love a a bit of Brutalist architecture if it's well done (e.g. Barbican Centre, Preston bus station etc). But that car park is an absolutely shocking eyesore (even worse close up). If it ever does go I'll have to make a special trip just to dance on its grave.
Shout out for Worthing! The car park looks much better now that they've painted it in similar sorts of colours to the other buildings along the seafront. Also Level 1 is brilliant during the summer. Feels like you're on holiday!
The fact it may be knocked down at any point is why the Hollywood Bowl below it gets no updating like their other venues. It's like stepping back into the 1970s in there, and from the smell you can tell it's leaking throughout from the car park.
Unsolicited random automotive information relating to Worthing and the surrounding area that you may find interesting: 1. The exterior styling for the Mazda mx-5 was developed in Worthing by a company called IAD. Which was based on the site of what was the Daewoo technical centre (buildings are still in use and are behind B&Q) 2. The former site of the Datsun UK parts headquarters can be found on columbia drive (buildings still exists and is now flats and warehouses) 3. Down the road next to Shoreham airport is Ricardo's original site, where indirect injection was developed 4. Down the road the other way in Littlehampton is Dutton cars... If you have ever wanted a floating Suzuki Jimmy look no further... 5. Further down the road in the same direction is the former site of Onyx formula one team (Next to denmans garden centre in fontwell)
If you like this car park, you might like the 4! Similar car parks sat on the corners of Runcorn's "shopping city" shopping centre. It's all very 60s, and the area even includes an elevated bus way.
I used to work in the bowling alley under this building. One issue that hasn’t been spoken of is that the adjacent block of flats has it’s own above ground carpark, this area is accessed from inside the Grafton road carpark at level 5 or something. If they pull this down, how do the residents get to their carpark ?
No issues at all with Grafton car park, i use it a lot. Cheap, easy to access, and i love the aesthetic. I do wonder if we're a bit too quick to tear down 1960s concrete stuff. Look back to the enthusiasm for knocking down victorian stuff in the 1960s, its regretted now.
I loved how you put it about the decision to build the structure. It's similar to the worst part of the movement in the US - that it could be done cheaply if uninspired made it attractive for "urban renewal" programs and the results are not generally well regarded today.
I like it and the contrast to its surroundings works for me. I see someone has already the 'Get Carter' carpark in Gateshead. If we carry on like this there won't be any left, which would be a shame. Incidentally one reason why concrete was so cheap as a building material was that we had a massive over capacity for manufacturing it in the 20-30 years following the second 'disagreement' when we had needed enormous amounts for airfields and so on so lots of quarries and cement works were put in place.
Actually quite like the look of this car park and it appears a lot cheaper to park there than Brighton at least. No where near as bad as Anglia Square in Norwich (not sure you can park there now?) avoid the area like the plague. Was due for demolition this year but development plans fell through. Pretty sure it'll remain in Norwich till the end of time.
I think the odd bit of brutalist architecture has camp value; but maybe the Soviets overdid it a bit. Nice to watch a video that isn't cut with endless meme clips.
If you're after more Brutalist car parks, Preston Bus Station car park is (apparently) a fine example. It's Grade II listed and everything (which the council hate, because now they *have* to maintain it properly). I mean, personally I think it's a carbuncle, but what do I know?
There is some confusion about the use of the term 'Brutalist' to describe concrete buildings from the 1960s - I won't bore everyone with it, but I would recommend looking up the book 'A New Brutalism' by Reyner Banham. Considering that was written around the same time, it gives an idea of how influential the movement was, but it's more about structural honesty and form than it is about concrete. The confusion seems to stem from the French (?) 'Beton Brut' for raw concrete, or the idea that such buildings are meant to be 'Brutal' - with the New Brutalist movement that's generally the opposite! Of course it's become a stylistic term but i have to say, I'm not getting Brutalism (style) from this - just 60s and concrete. Sorry to be a bore everyone, and sorry Jon - still a great video!
Driving past this building pretty much everyday, personally I have never had a problem with it, especially when they cleaned it up. Even though it's not in a 'Georgian' or 'Victorian' style, it is a design which is part of our heritage and therefore I think it should be saved. Especially as Worthing Council only want to chuck in more housing which will be filled with either pensioners or air b&b'ers bringing with it either empty properties or constant noise complaints and a lack of suitable affordable parking to boot
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I love these 60s car parks, with more car paint on the walls than on the cars.
Fantastic 👌🏼😂
Need to add the worst peice of wall art has more aesthetic appeal than the whole building.
Recently left some of my paint on one!
This is clearly not needed (despite the reasonable charges) - the thing is, apparently, almost entirely empty!
In days gone by we had Equinox and Horizon on BBC2. This is the only bastion of information we have left.
Yep, the BBC has moved forward to presenting’Glow up’ and ‘Drag race’ programmes as family entertainment these days 🤦♂️
Don't forget QED, really miss that
@@koolstup well spotted.🫡
Equinox was Channel 4. 😉
QI is still a thing, along with shows presented by Prof Hannah Fry, Dr Adam Rutherford, Prof Alice Roberts, the not-dead-yet Attenborough and many more.
I like this video so I’ve pressed the button specifically for that👉🏻
The unsubscribe button? ✅
@@samholdsworth420 I don’t like your comment so I’ve pressed the button specifically for that👎🏻
@@adamjolley8552 the subscribe button? ✅
I think that only applies to the Sunday videos, I think we are not meant to press 'that button' on Wednesday videos
Lucky it wasn’t the 👆🏻 as I might start to think you’re my proctologist!
I think "Brutalist Architecture in a Seaside Town" would be a brilliant title for a Smiths song that never was
If I was any kind of lyricist, I'd have a go at creating some. But I'm not, so I'll just have to settle for saying that the words "concrete effigy" would likely be in there
@@leopold7562I was happy in the haze of a concrete car park
But heaven knows I’m brutalist now
I was looking for a space then I found a space
And worthing knows I’m miserable now
“Trudging slowly over wet sand..”
@@seaside_ramblerthat's a helpful comment, why did you consider it worthwhile typing that and then pressing Enter?
A smiths song ???😂😂 Songs usually rhyme unless you are a lazy pretentious tool with an equally lazy guitarist.
We definitely need a Great British Car Parks series from you Jon
Second that
You could have fun and apply to get it listed with English Heritage!
I was thinking the same. It’s a splendid example of the era and not without its appeal. 😂
1. Its not eligable for listing.
2. As a resident of this area , no one likes this building and most of us will be glad to see it gone. Its only redeeming factor is the pretty bowling alley underneath it.
3. There are other car parks built in this style very close by and in much more sensible locations.
@@leejack-qt2emreally only joking about the listing but it’s got a wonderful Blake’s 7 vibe going on. 😂. Make sure you get some idea of what they will replace it with. Bet you loose the bowling alley 😢. Sometimes it’s better the devil you know.
@@leejack-qt2emyour sort are the worst, local residents thinking they’re speaking for everybody. We’ve lost too much of this sort of iconic style in the UK in recent years.
@@royfontaine5526 Im not speaking for everybody , everybody i know hates it. Whether you like that sort of architecture is up to you. But you cant deny it sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the place. Rows of victorian and houses then a run down brutalist car park. Its like building a skyscraper in the middle of a tiny village. It just doesnt belong there.
Not to mention it also stinks of piss and is in disrepair. There are also many other examples of this architecture within a mile of this building that are in better condition and in much more fitting places.
That grand tour of the car park's features with the fair organ music was excellent!
I think I saw a U turn - did he get lost ?
I love these little "side roads" adventures. More!
Had no idea you'd ever come to my home town.
We used to have another multi-storey until 2018 in the currently awaiting redevelopment Teville Gate site (we have a lot of areas currently awaiting redevelopment here in Worthing). I kind of miss it, it was a landmark for me, the final sign that I was nearly at my dads house after 90 minute long drives from Hertfordshire every other weekend.
Always hated Worthing like lancing it’s mostly a shit hole
@@momentarylapsofreason But it's OUR shithole
Look at you going all Summertime and taking your coat off! 😮🥶
It's getting warm!
The old Trinity Square Car Park A.K.A. the Get Carter Car Park in Gateshead was also a fine example of a Brutalist car park.
Nothing more brutal than a grieving brother throwing a fat dude off a big car park. 😂
Owen Luder’s finest. I have a lump of it on a shelf in my living room.
Worthing has already got rid of ther other one it did have - Teville Gate.
From a distance you see it. Up close you smell it!
The contrasting vertical bands of white and buff colour blocks shows some thought went into it. It does have a characteristic and doesnt seem too bad, you dont have to have every building in a place looking , or attempting to look the same if the buildings are good enough. Being at the end of the A24 Worthing was handy for me, esp as a great aunty wanted a lift there a couple of times a year to see her friend- she got the train back
The roof of that car park would make an awesome Kart track 🤩 Glad to see more appreciation of the concrete joy that is Brutalism 👍
I have, and will likely never, travel to any of these locations for their designated tourist attractions, so I really don't understand why I'm so fascinated by videos about the *not* exciting details! Why? Because you make amazing content! Thank you!
Sometimes brutal is good, like the old Birmingham central library. Just a big concrete building with books and a Maccy Ds that has been replaced by a bit of Government debt and a glass building with no books.
Rotherham central library was like that and it was ace inside with a cafe, arts centre and museum. Replaced by a Tesco in 2014 and moved to the new council offices on the far side of town. Now the council are redeveloping the 70s market next to where it was and moving the library back.
@@antonycharnock2993 You still have a library?
Some of the brutalist architecture actually doesn’t look too “brutal” or displeasing. But what strikes me about most modernist construction is how poorly it ages. Even the well designed buildings look dreadfully shabby after 3 decades.
@@kaasmeester5903 Yes, I love brutalist architecture but that sort of patchy damp look it can get, like we see here, is horrible.
When done properly - (which often means on a massive, grand scale) architecture in the brutalist style (which has nothing to do with the word brutal), can be amazing. Some buildings in Noisy le Grand in Paris are good examples.
I love the 'second small disagreement' you've done it for ages 😂
Let's hope there will be no third disagreement, it might be not small 😁
I was drinking some coffee _right_ at that moment, and only just managed to avoid spurting it everywhere! 😂
Never fails to make me laugh 😊
Never fails to make me smile
Jason Donovan my favourite. 😂😂
I'm sitting at the seaside on a Beach in September in Dunbar watching this and my wife and kids Paddle boarding.
An excellent video as always Jon.
Loving your work Jon, your humour is spot on 😁👍
Thanks a lot mate, appreciate that !
I'm pleased to see you did what I'd have done and drive round all the fun extra bits.
'We' (though I'd prefer to say they) have one of these in Cannock, Staffordshire. It's smaller and has been modified many times before closing a few years ago, but the brick tower and rounded windows were surely designed by the same person as it's so similar. The worthing one has faired better, Cannock is due to have theirs demolished soon. I love your videos, even if you are Kier Starmer's brother.
Looks great, and just look at how you can drive from one building into the next and up and down and back again! It's a day-sized fun for the whole family! Definitely a keeper!
I'm glad I never had to use that car park in all the time I went to and also lived in Worthing.
The Buckingham Rd one you mentioned was right across from where I worked and the factory windows used to get smashed at weekends by kids throwing stones at them from the car park and my workbench, the main office and the other rooms along the south side as well as the workshops at ground level were often covered in glass on a Monday morning.
Yet another mid week marvel. Safe travels Jon atvb.
Made me homesick. I miss Worthing.
English Heritage will probably give it a Grade II listing after viewing this, many Brutalist buildings have it now but very few car parks, yet.
Hope so!
What an epic video!
being born and beard in Worthing this car park holds many great memories 😂.
Not for me. It's the only time I had my car broken into and the stereo nicked.
Me too. I remember when this was built - I was 9 or 10 - but I can't remember what was there before! Worthing Town Council had/have a reputation for destroying stuff. The Old TRown Hall being a good example in early 1960s!
Thanks
Nice one mate, much appreciated!
2:37 best sardonic smile I have had all week, cheers
Is that Avon? I had to look up sardonic as I thought it was the same as sarcastic. Also found cynicism and wit. We didn't take humour very seriously when I was at school.
@@David_Crayford That is indeed him! Yes it is actually one of my descriptions because it keeps people guessing which in itself gives a sardonic satisfaction
What was the piss smelling scale there Jon? You missed that vital bit out!
you really have put yourself on par with evening BBC television back when it was actually good, keep up the great work!
It's a great car park to go to the top, stick it in neutral, and rag it down the ramps whilst free rolling! Done that many a time at Grafton
JD Sports in Worthing is in Montague Street.
Look out for a blue Morris van parked in an alley.
Not sure if it is blue after or before the respray - ask Leo Sayer.
Bloomin heck, I literally live opposite Steyne Gardens just around the corner! It feels weird watching my town on RUclips for sure
Wooo! Hometown!
Sorry
Very positive and complimentary. Shows Jon can research and make a video on anything, explain it clearly, and make it informative and interesting.
I would have found it too easy to moan about Worthing and car parks, but who would enjoy watching a video like that, even if it was true?
Definitely would like to go to Worthing. But that multi-storey car park in Worthing is such an iconic concert masterpiece.
Used to skateboard there in the mid 70s , great times
Joyous! Ta.
As a child I used to love those minor terror inducing ramps between levels.
I love this car park - it’s mental and can always guarantee a new insurance claims for dents.
I’m going to visit it Sunday from Northampton
Brutalist. Jarring. Epic. AND a car park too. Feels like Sunday on Wednesday. Happy Days !
I do love Worthing and I’m glad you included that glorious cinema which has all original fittings and decor. And that pier is easily the best looking one I’ve even seen. Have to agree though that the car park is pretty cool. I love how you have those connecting bridges and I suspect you had great fun driving all around it. Reminded me a bit of a cross between the Italian Job and Get Carter (though obviously without the Mafia getting involved or seeing Alf Robert’s tossed off the stairwell to his death 🤔
The mere fact that it reminds me of two of my favourite films is enough I’d say to justify the cancellation of the demolition plans 😉🍻👍
I remember sitting in the Dome cinema watching 'Die Hard' and you could hear the buses coming and going from the bus station that used to be next door.
Hey, I live in Worthing! It could be worse; when I first moved here a few years ago, that particular building was a single, solid slab of grey. At least they’ve since gone to the effort of attempting to make it less dreary 😅
There are still some brutalist structures in Worthing. The Law Courts, the library (both original), the almost-finished building block of flats between them and the (slightly less built) Integrated Medical Centre. They go together as they are all on the same block, but do juxtapose the Art Deco Stoke Abbott Court to the north of that block. Many other modern blocks of flats are similar (such as Calista further down the coast on Grand Avenue).
There's a multistory car park in Brighton, all i can remember is there's an Asda at the bottom of it. Absolute nightmare with a larger car, shunts required to use the ramps to go in-between floors!
We have a worse car park on our sea front in Kirkcaldy it’s smaller but built from breeze block which really adds to the post apocalypse feel and atmosphere of the building.
Great video John, amazing as always 👌👍😀
If you like 1970s brutalist multistorey carparks you should see the one in Chatham, it has a bus station in it! Sadly the bus station is no longer used.
My main take from this video is... what is the oldest working multi story car park??
Bristol claim that the 'Lex Garage Multideck' (opened in 1960) is the oldest one still being used.
You know what. It actually grows on me. That symmetrical front with there glass down the centre and the openings each side is kinda cool.
You came to Worthing - and I'd say you have done a fine job of telling the world about one of our most... Er... 'cherished' pieces of public architecture. A bit sad you didn't mention that this car park has it's own bowling alley...
Wait whut? i hope it isn't in one of those side structures as if it where up to me, i would get rid of those two and just keep the brutalist structure with that lovely front terrace.
Yes because we all missed the big bright pink Hollywood Bowl signs that clearly indicated there was a bowling alley there as well. 😂
That carpark isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Don’t even get us started on Teville Gate! 😅
Never Expected my home town on here!
Honestly, the fact that the condition of parking floor markings and the facade seems superb is a bit odd....if the council really doesn't give a shit, surely there would already cut corners in the maintenance and leave the facade in a much more drabby condition than this (which looks like as if the council is proud of the parking complex and want it to put on the heritage register....)
This car park also likely helped preserve older buildings from being demolished for surface parking back when that was the thing to do.
Quality video yet again really hope you dive into some more history an architecture before it's all long gone an forgotton
You want to go to Lee Circle in Leicester.... Now that's a ding dong but a listed ding dong. That's a double helix car park.... The first automatic car park in the UK, the location of the first Tesco hypermarket and it had valet parking. Opened by Sid James. Oh there's another one as well at Abbey Street.
That bit where you were bombing round the upper levels reminded me of the car park in GTA 5. Someone should make a ramp out of an old beer advert and r can try and complete the Worthing stunt jump.
Ahh a bit of afternoon delight.
I have been in that carpark many times and it is in a good location since it backs onto montague street. Quite a handy carpark in my opinion.
Please do more car park reviews!
My parents used to live in Worthing and I still visit the place two or three times a year for a few days at a time so it's nice to see the place gradually on the up. And I do love a a bit of Brutalist architecture if it's well done (e.g. Barbican Centre, Preston bus station etc). But that car park is an absolutely shocking eyesore (even worse close up). If it ever does go I'll have to make a special trip just to dance on its grave.
We've got a brand new glass town hall in Crawley now! Just thought I'd mention it.
When I was growing up in Worthing I knew it as the Bowling Alley car park as that is underneath. Wonder if that would be lost too in their masterplan.
Shout out for Worthing! The car park looks much better now that they've painted it in similar sorts of colours to the other buildings along the seafront. Also Level 1 is brilliant during the summer. Feels like you're on holiday!
I am the same age as the car park. Will I be demolished and replaced! 😮
Ayy Worthing mentioned 🙌
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
Thanks mate, hope you are well!
Should be given grade 2 listed building status
As a resident of worthing : No....Just no.
Good job
I kinda like it.
Not sure about the two tone panels but the 'window' shape is lovely.
awesome video
You’ve got to do a full video on Crawley and tell us your opinions!
The fact it may be knocked down at any point is why the Hollywood Bowl below it gets no updating like their other venues. It's like stepping back into the 1970s in there, and from the smell you can tell it's leaking throughout from the car park.
Unsolicited random automotive information relating to Worthing and the surrounding area that you may find interesting:
1. The exterior styling for the Mazda mx-5 was developed in Worthing by a company called IAD. Which was based on the site of what was the Daewoo technical centre (buildings are still in use and are behind B&Q)
2. The former site of the Datsun UK parts headquarters can be found on columbia drive (buildings still exists and is now flats and warehouses)
3. Down the road next to Shoreham airport is Ricardo's original site, where indirect injection was developed
4. Down the road the other way in Littlehampton is Dutton cars... If you have ever wanted a floating Suzuki Jimmy look no further...
5. Further down the road in the same direction is the former site of Onyx formula one team (Next to denmans garden centre in fontwell)
If you like this car park, you might like the 4! Similar car parks sat on the corners of Runcorn's "shopping city" shopping centre. It's all very 60s, and the area even includes an elevated bus way.
I used to work in the bowling alley under this building.
One issue that hasn’t been spoken of is that the adjacent block of flats has it’s own above ground carpark, this area is accessed from inside the Grafton road carpark at level 5 or something. If they pull this down, how do the residents get to their carpark ?
The cross bridges are a bit like the old warehouse routes in south london bermondsey
No issues at all with Grafton car park, i use it a lot. Cheap, easy to access, and i love the aesthetic. I do wonder if we're a bit too quick to tear down 1960s concrete stuff. Look back to the enthusiasm for knocking down victorian stuff in the 1960s, its regretted now.
I loved how you put it about the decision to build the structure. It's similar to the worst part of the movement in the US - that it could be done cheaply if uninspired made it attractive for "urban renewal" programs and the results are not generally well regarded today.
I rarely go there now but when I do it is a useful cheap car park to use.
The interior of the dome cinema features in season 6 episode 3 titled ‘beyond the sea’ of black mirror.
I suddenly feel the need to park on the top floor in one of the blue bays. Nurse!
Nice
I like it and the contrast to its surroundings works for me.
I see someone has already the 'Get Carter' carpark in Gateshead. If we carry on like this there won't be any left, which would be a shame.
Incidentally one reason why concrete was so cheap as a building material was that we had a massive over capacity for manufacturing it in the 20-30 years following the second 'disagreement' when we had needed enormous amounts for airfields and so on so lots of quarries and cement works were put in place.
The obligatory “shadddup” at the gull made this *chefs kiss*
i remember a building that looked like that, they pulled that one down 20 years ago
Actually quite like the look of this car park and it appears a lot cheaper to park there than Brighton at least.
No where near as bad as Anglia Square in Norwich (not sure you can park there now?) avoid the area like the plague. Was due for demolition this year but development plans fell through. Pretty sure it'll remain in Norwich till the end of time.
I think the odd bit of brutalist architecture has camp value; but maybe the Soviets overdid it a bit.
Nice to watch a video that isn't cut with endless meme clips.
Bristol Rupert Street car park, now this. I can see a great mini series in the making !
I had missed "the second minor disagreement" line - glad it hasn't been discarded 😊
If you're after more Brutalist car parks, Preston Bus Station car park is (apparently) a fine example. It's Grade II listed and everything (which the council hate, because now they *have* to maintain it properly).
I mean, personally I think it's a carbuncle, but what do I know?
For sore thumbs on the South coast try Eastbourne's South Cliff Tower.
There is some confusion about the use of the term 'Brutalist' to describe concrete buildings from the 1960s - I won't bore everyone with it, but I would recommend looking up the book 'A New Brutalism' by Reyner Banham. Considering that was written around the same time, it gives an idea of how influential the movement was, but it's more about structural honesty and form than it is about concrete. The confusion seems to stem from the French (?) 'Beton Brut' for raw concrete, or the idea that such buildings are meant to be 'Brutal' - with the New Brutalist movement that's generally the opposite!
Of course it's become a stylistic term but i have to say, I'm not getting Brutalism (style) from this - just 60s and concrete.
Sorry to be a bore everyone, and sorry Jon - still a great video!
Oh you DO love to be beside the seaside, this was very apparent.
You should have seen it before the tasteful two tone pastel colours were added, truly grim!!
Driving past this building pretty much everyday, personally I have never had a problem with it, especially when they cleaned it up. Even though it's not in a 'Georgian' or 'Victorian' style, it is a design which is part of our heritage and therefore I think it should be saved. Especially as Worthing Council only want to chuck in more housing which will be filled with either pensioners or air b&b'ers bringing with it either empty properties or constant noise complaints and a lack of suitable affordable parking to boot
"J.D. Sports directly from the car park..." Ha! I missed that one.