It looked brutalist and horrid in the plans, models and drawings..
..and as the above photo shows - looks brutalist and horrid when built.
It's interesting how some countries get plonking a whacking great mast for tv/communications so right (the tower on Montjuic in Barcelona for example. A white needle looking over the city centre, and yet is pleasingly asthetic and doesn't look that out of place) and some so very wrong - as demonstrated here.
It also shows how in some respects, how forward thinking the UK and Ireland were in planning tv transmitters.
We generally put them on big hills and in large green fields near sheep, and away from major city centres - London excepted, although there isn't a trace of this 'thick penstoke design' in the masts at Croydon or Crystal Palace - so we only notice them when traveling around.
I'd hate to have that ugly monstrosity stuck in my eyeline everytime I looked out of the window at home, or travelling on the morning commute.
There was a revolving restaurant at the top of the BT Tower, but security concerns put pay to that idea, and is used for ad hoc tv programmes and a couple of this year's FA Cup draws.
You've just pointed out the flaw. Sure looks good from the inside looking out, but outside looking at it - different story.
It also shows how in some respects, how forward thinking the UK and Ireland were in planning tv transmitters.
We generally put them on big hills and in large green fields near sheep, and away from major city centres - London excepted, although there isn't a trace of this 'thick penstoke design' in the masts at Croydon or Crystal Palace - so we only notice them when traveling around.
I'd hate to have that ugly monstrosity stuck in my eyeline everytime I looked out of the window at home, or travelling on the morning commute.
One of the reasons we don't have these combined telecom and broadcast transmitters is that unusually the BBC and ITA made their own arrangements rather than the GPO. In most other European countries, and of course behind the Iron Curtain the national PTT was responsible for broadcast transmissions.
If the government had selected the GPO to provide BBC and ITV transmission we may well have ended up with urban area chunky towers too
BTW for 5 Euros you can enter the Barcelona tower, cracking view of the city, and you get nice and close to all the antennas too 😎
Note the use of both the Cyrillic script -- used by Bosnian Serbs -- and the Latin script -- used by Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Bosnian Croats.
Looking through the video, It's very odd to see some black and white footage in the newscast.
The report at 2:08 is about a coup in Turkey, with footage probably sourced from Turkish television, and according to Wikipedia, TRT didn't fully switch to color until 1984. Of course, this still doesn't explain why the report at 6:00 is also in black and white. Old technology perhaps? RTV Sarajevo would soon get a major upgrade of equipment for the 1984 Winter Olympics.
