The golden era of buildings

[@Rewighjwbfwcgx]

In Wigan there has just been a shopping centre which has been pulled down. It was finished in 1989 and opened in 91. It was called the galleries, properly built and had some nice, mostly original late 80s Otis lifts. This building was well built but has been pulled down now.

[@Techno-Universal]

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

[@xxhatchet_harryxx2703]

1:58 this is by far the best way to explain this

[@milkandduckrailway323]

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

[@4dxl]

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

[@metromodernism]

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

[@Mattyeah101]

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.

[@benolifts]

The Glades is an 80s (early 90s) classic. Lots of effort went into the design. Large atriums with glass lifts. Effort put into decorative features inside the building (of which a lot of it has been painted over now). And most of all the custom T shaped Schindler Miconic V lifts (now modernized).

[@IZAQ_]

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

[@dxmedia9258]

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

[@LiftURBEX]

On the first lift, does car pref overide card reader?

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

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 👍

[@bernie2237]

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

[@whizzbtw]

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.

[@geoffreyacquaah272]

Awesome video Beno, a fantastic building to explore at !

[@kmcat]

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.

[@jfwfreo]

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.

[@Bombiedude.]

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

[@Bombiedude.]

so if you visit the US some day Id definitely recommend it because there are some really nice buildings

[@LinxFox]

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

[@wisteela]

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

[@fredstrainandbusvids.]

1960s to 2000s are THE BEST buildings.

[@westelaudio943]

I only like 80s and 90s as well as 30s and older. Even though 50s-70s were often nice inside, but quite crappy on the outside, usually.

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

more like late 1970s-1990s were the best buildings, a lot of buildings from the 1950s & 1960s were built to a poor quality in the UK such as some of the residential towers around Glasgow and many of the buildings built prior to the 1980s contain tons of asbestos from the walls, ceilings to even the doors which you can tell by the use of an "Asbestos" sticker on all building parts which contain asbestos as required by law. imo many 2000s buildings are just precursors to the current ugly glass box towers seen today such as Centrale, Croydon (~2005) which do not look pretty unlike say the Bentall's Centre, Kingston-Upon-Thames (~early 1990s)...

[@fredstrainandbusvids.]

@@wclifton968gameplaystutorials oh yeah, some of our buildings nowadays are more accurate to the 60s than the future!

[@xav500011]

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

[@asetatlikalem]

Fantastic biulding

[@konemseries12]

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.

[@itsthatsebguy93]

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

[@zohrabkassis7525]

The ICC reminds me a bit of Deira City Centre

[@lwpdhofgh]

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

[@benolifts]

Things are built to a budget nowadays. Cheap lifts, little interesting features to the building, less spectacular atriums.

[@interstat2222]

@@benolifts I think it’s because everything now is modular for a fast and cheap turnaround. Take supermarket architecture: in the 80s there were materials like brick and slate requiring craftsmanship and architectural individuality to each brand. Now, they look like car dealerships or warehouses. Unfortunately, the UK is declining in many ways because we’re being conditioned to accept everything in lower quality. Same goes for railway station ‘architecture’. By the mid-late 80s, we’d largely shaken off the 70s gloom and there was hope for the upcoming 21st century, so the UK saw an American-style building boom (with lots of cash injections from lenders).

[@akimbogaming9334]

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.

[@Techno-Universal]

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.

[@Andrewjg_89]

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

[@BoobyTwat]

smoke weed everyday

[@royfontaine5526]

Right then! 😂

[@dobolgreensadobolb]

Kayo ay nakikinig sa.... *BIGTIME BALITA!!!*

[@I_like_some_BG]

First one!

[@Class777]

Stagecoach one!

[@LiamTheProto]

Generic one!

[@akimbogaming9334]

Otis 2000 VF one!

[@milkandduckrailway323]

National express west midlands one!

[@windowsxpnt2347]

Hey Austin this is guys

[@tech_and_stuff_2022]

You like saying this over and over again?

[@akimbogaming9334]

Hey guys Austin is looking at buildings from the golden era

[@nelsonahlvik6650]

12th

[@akimbogaming9334]

Stagecoachth

[@nelsonahlvik6650]

@@akimbogaming9334 That's not how this works…

[@LiamTheProto]

first xd

[@Class777]

stagecoach xd

[@LiamTheProto]

generic lifts xd

[@akimbogaming9334]

otis 2000 vf xd

[@milkandduckrailway323]

national express west midlands xd

[@uktv05]

First

[@akimbogaming9334]

Otis 2000 VF

[@milkandduckrailway323]

National Express West Midlands

[@LiamTheProto]

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