Annoyingly, if you search for Anglia Square, most of the pictures are actually of adjacent Sovereign House. This is what I'm talking about: https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/19194299.jpg/

I happen to love brutalist architecture, but in the uk it can sometimes not work (grey rainy days don’t bring out the best of the concrete). However, I think in this case it really works.

Concrete is strong and imposing and emotional. It feels authoritative and cold. A warm building feels like it has deliberately undermined its own status to feel welcoming and feels fake. A brutalist building doesn't lie. It is a massive concrete edifice containing a large space within.

It also weathers in distinctive ways. The water stains are like seniority, telling me the building has and will last forever. A big glass skyscraper feels replaceable and new, like it's disposable and will be replaced in a few years.

I get a lot of hate for this but one of the benefits of a concrete house is the ability to throw stones.

“Oh you have such delightful accents and it’s so cheap here. Did you know we’d never be able to afford this in New York? Yes, I’d like a latte.

Can you believe it, darling? Our barista actually studied at Oxford. They’re never going to believe this back in Topeka, Kansas”

The British will be eager to point out to you that their homes are older than your country and that’s why their governments advise them to smear yogurt on their windows to keep cool lest they instantly die of heat stroke. They wallow in their dismal poverty, only pride keeping them firmly on this inevitable road to ruin.

Dystopian place.

Be prepared for every little bit of building work to take twice as long and cost twice as much now. The hands of future users are firmly bound.