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The Concord Suite in Droylsden is the subject of a new series of collages I’ve made for the ‘In Tameside’ project. Opened in the early 1970s as a home for Droylsden Council, the name is taken from the town’s motto ‘Concordia’ meaning harmony. . I think it’s beautiful, which I know is a controversial opinion, as most people will call it an eyesore! But this period of architecture, Modernist, Brutalist in nature, holds all the utopian ideals of an aspirational time that looked to a better future and for me, all those values are still tied up in the fabric of the building. . Earmarked for redevelopment as part of a @tamesidecouncil ‘new vision’ for Droylsden, I fear it may go the same was as the inter-war library designed by G. Noel Hill, which is due for demolition, if not already gone. . Paper collage (2022): digital print of a Creative Commons photo, coloured papers. . Image credit: ‘A 1979 view of the Concord Suite’ by David Dixon licences for reuse under Creative Commons Licence (geograph.org.uk ref: SJ9098) . . . #intameside #tameside #droylsden #concordsuite #droylsdencentre #collage #collageart #papercollage #analoguecollage #cutandpaste #cutandpastecollage #contemporarycollage #cutitupandstickitdown #architecture #architecturephotography #modernistarchitecture #brutalistarchitecture #brutalism #brutiful #brutalandbeautiful #creativecommons