Simon Phipps’s Brutal North continues to make headlines into 2021. On 3 January, the Guardian featured Simon’s fears about the proposed demolition of many of the buildings he photographed.

Architect’s Journal followed up:

Simon Phipps’s Brutal North continues to make headlines into 2021. On 3 January, the Guardian featured Simon’s fears about the proposed demolition of many of the buildings he photographed.
Architect’s Journal followed up:
A great spread of Simon Phipps’s photos from Brutal North appeared on Mail Online yesterday, accompanied by Matthew Steele’s captions.
Simon Phipps was on Radio 4’s Front Row on Friday evening, talking about Brutal North and the exuberance of modernist architecture. Listen again at 11m15.
Just out, Brutal North is Simon Phipps’s photographs of brutalist and modernist architecture in the north of England. Today a selection of photos from it have been featured in the Guardian.
Simon has also, together with caption writer Matthew Steele (and Judy the dog), appeared in a IGTV interview with The Modernist Society.
We’ve had some fantastic comments on twitter too:
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