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'They were built with so much grand ambition and civic pride': Why we should learn to love Manchester's most hated buildings...before it's too late

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'Berlin Wall' for instance. Widely mocked and derided, often in the pages of the Manchester Evening News ,  it felt like its fate was sealed before construction was even completed.

But now there's a growing number of voices calling for towns and cities to embrace their concrete tower blocks, flyovers and housing estates before it's too late.Among them is photographer Simon Phipps, whose new book Brutal North celebrates the most aspirational and enlightened architecture of the north’s postwar years.Simon, who has a background in sculpture having trained at the Royal College of Art, said: "I'm a big advocate of the reason these buildings were built.

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