Share your photos of beautiful or ugly concrete

Concrete transformed architecture, from brutalist landmarks to soaring towers – but this environmentally destructive material is also responsible for some real eyesoresFind the rest of our Guardian concrete week pieces hereConcrete: no material polarises opinion quite like it.It can be strikingly beautiful – take the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, with its cylindrical curves and geometric convex windows – as well as pleasingly austere. Brutalist architecture in particular has fans around the world, who fight to protect buildings from demolition. In Singapore enthusiasts, including many architects who appreciate the design and historical significance of these buildings, are trying to preserve landmarks such as the horseshoe-shaped Pearl Bank Apartments after it was sold to a developer. And in London, Welbeck Street car park, a Brutalist structure completed in 1970, is to be torn down despite campaigns to protect its unique diamond-patterned facade. It will be replaced with a 10-storey hotel after plans by owner Shiva Hotels were approved. Continue reading…
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