London-based photographer Joanne Underhill has attempted to save Welbeck Street car park in a "small way" with a new series of colour photos.
Underhill first captured the London building in 2013, for a photography project called Beautiful Brutalism, but was motivated to document it more throughly after discovering it was due to be torn down and replaced by a hotel.

"When I found out the numerous attempts to save it failed I felt really disheartened, sad and pretty helpless," Underhill told Dezeen.
"As an architectural photographer the only, and small way, I could save it was in photographs."

Welbeck Street car park was designed by Michael Blampied & Partners and built in 1971, to serve a central London department store. Underhill's photographs showcase the building's distinctive facade, made of tessellated modules of concrete. It was this facade that helped the building become a landmark for lovers of brutalist architecture.
Despite a preservation campaign, the facade will be demolished imminently, along with the rest of the building.

"If more buildings are going to disappear then photography becomes a really important way of capturing them," said Underhill.
"We view a lot of architecture through images, it's a way of 'visiting' the building if you are unable to physically go there,"  she added. "If the building no longer exists then looking at photographs is the only way it can be viewed."

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