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Legend of brutalism Owen Luder dies at 93
RIBA president Simon Allford pays tribute to ’commercially astute’ mastermind behind remarkable but divisive schemes
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Get Luder: Owen Luder’s fight to save Gateshead carpark
From the archive: Back in 2005 Building joined the architect as he tried to save his brutallist car park, made famous by the film Get Carter, from demolition
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Looking back to 2005
This week’s archive piece looks back at brutalist parking blocks, “monstrosities”, and a Michael Caine-inspired script starring a besuited architect
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Get Carter car park demolition starts
Owen Luder’s iconic brutalist structure makes way for £150m Tesco regeneration scheme
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End nears for Get Carter car park
Owen Luder's brutalist structure in Gateshead has been vacated ahead of demolition
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Construction industry gossip: Sites for sore eyes
This week, graffiti-watch from hipster Shoreditch, Redrow’s Steve Morgan is forever blowing bubbles, and ferry-loving Chris Grayling sinks yet further in public esteem
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Open mike: Eve of destruction
Architect Owen Luder reckons his infamous Tricorn Centre was unjustly demolished without a fair trial; now we must stop his Get Carter car park suffering the same fate
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A reader writes: Why the Tricorn had to go
Contrary to what Owen Luder wrote last month, his Portsmouth shopping centre was ripe for demolition, simply because it failed in so many ways
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