Preston Bus Station

Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of BDP, 1969. A bus station in a Lancashire town became a brutalist icon thanks to the decks of parking stacked on top, each edged with a sweeping concrete balcony that curls out like a wave and makes the 170-meter facade look as if it were drawn in one stroke. The council wanted it demolished, and campaigners fought back until it was listed at Grade II in September 2013. This 2020 view shows it after a restoration by John Puttick Associates, finished in 2018, with a new landscaped forecourt where the western bus bays used to be.