/lit/ - Literature

>>18300606
They lost their purpose and became "cultural" centres for children and the homeless

>>14253688
Here's the birmingham library through the ages. The Victorian neo-classical building was 'not fit for purpose' and the modernists couldn't think of any other possible use for it, so it was knocked down. The Brutalist building, which won many awards and was built like a nuclear bunker, lasted 40 years. It isn't actually on the site of the old library, so they knocked down some other fine victorian buildings to build it. The new PoMo library is on a different site again and looks like mall. Will they refurbish it when it looks tired and ratty in 30 years time? Or will everyone get tired of it's shitty plastic gucci hand bag styling and just demand it be knocked down?