This futuristic-looking building is a popular exhibition and event center located in the heart of Birmingham, UK. Its sleek, curved design features a large glass façade and a striking atrium, flooding the interior with natural light. The pavilion offers a spacious, flexible event space that can accommodate a wide range of events, from conferences and trade shows to concerts and weddings. With its modern amenities, state-of-the-art technology, and stunning architecture, the Apollo Pavilion is an ideal venue for any occasion.
I'm a native of Peterlee. This is fact based not an aggressive statement. This location has always been a magnet for local drugtakers, vandals and graffiti. The Pavillion has been an eyesore since its inception and had - at various times - been considered for demolition, due to problems caused to surrounding households, but money talks and a small minority (From outside the area) somehow managed to sway the decision .... elevating it to Grade 2 Listed status. Doubtless because it would cost far more to remove this eyesore than con art-house idiots into publicising it as a work of art. The shallow pond has forever been a dumping ground for rubbish and stray shopping trollies, as well as stray needles dumped by drug abusers. It once had a well finished outer skin of concrete, but decades of graffiti removal have left it's appearance extremely scruffy and pock-marked. Brutalist? Claptrap! Passmor may well have designed the Pavillion (It was never known by locals as The Apollo Pavillion) and much if the surrounding new town based upon flat roofed, timber clad Mediterranean housing styles, built using sub-standard porous bricks (For pity sake!?!?!?!!!!), but it's known that most aspects of Peterlee were gerry-built, with financial backhanders filling the pockets of local planning officials. FACT By all means visit, but Castle Eden Dene and the East Durham Coast are far more worthy of support than the boil on Peterlee's hind-end .... The Pavillion. Peterlee and surrounding area are flatlining, primarily due to the lack of political and financial interest. The people deserve far better.
As the reviews show, this will not be to everyone's taste. To me this is a stunning building, thoughtfully placed. Well worth a diversion if you are in the area and interested in modern architecture, but bear in mind it's surrounded by people's homes, so maybe don't linger too long.
Always an eyesore that should have been located away from a housing estate. Guaranteed to find rubbish in the pond along with a shopping trolley and broken glass on the pavement around it from the bored local kids who hang around it.
Architecture award in 2011, built in 1969, showing its age but its worth a look on a nice sunny day .
Peterlees 'newtown brutal concrete architecture'. Does exactly what it say on the plaque.
Victor Passmore's Apollo Pavilion is an odd and bleak place surrounded by an odd town, Peterlee. Standing near or on the Apollo Pavilion is an amazing experience, You feel like you've visited an alternative world or at least a time back in the 80s when such structures were common place. Surrounded by Peterlee, The town only adds to the feeling and experience you get by visiting this monument. Peterlee was built together alongside Apollo Pavilion and the buildings surrounding the monument were laid out by the artist. They originally had flat roofs which complement the brutalist design of the Pavilion, However now most have been converted to have a slope. Apollo Pavilion and Brutalism might not be considered nice looking but for me its a place I'd recommend, Not all experiences have to be nice.
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Good for kids
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I'm a native of Peterlee. This is fact based not an aggressive statement. This location has always been a magnet for local drugtakers, vandals and graffiti. The Pavillion has been an eyesore since its inception and had - at various times - been considered for demolition, due to problems caused to surrounding households, but money talks and a small minority (From outside the area) somehow managed to sway the decision .... elevating it to Grade 2 Listed status. Doubtless because it would cost far more to remove this eyesore than con art-house idiots into publicising it as a work of art. The shallow pond has forever been a dumping ground for rubbish and stray shopping trollies, as well as stray needles dumped by drug abusers. It once had a well finished outer skin of concrete, but decades of graffiti removal have left it's appearance extremely scruffy and pock-marked. Brutalist? Claptrap! Passmor may well have designed the Pavillion (It was never known by locals as The Apollo Pavillion) and much if the surrounding new town based upon flat roofed, timber clad Mediterranean housing styles, built using sub-standard porous bricks (For pity sake!?!?!?!!!!), but it's known that most aspects of Peterlee were gerry-built, with financial backhanders filling the pockets of local planning officials. FACT By all means visit, but Castle Eden Dene and the East Durham Coast are far more worthy of support than the boil on Peterlee's hind-end .... The Pavillion. Peterlee and surrounding area are flatlining, primarily due to the lack of political and financial interest. The people deserve far better.
As the reviews show, this will not be to everyone's taste. To me this is a stunning building, thoughtfully placed. Well worth a diversion if you are in the area and interested in modern architecture, but bear in mind it's surrounded by people's homes, so maybe don't linger too long.
Always an eyesore that should have been located away from a housing estate. Guaranteed to find rubbish in the pond along with a shopping trolley and broken glass on the pavement around it from the bored local kids who hang around it.
Architecture award in 2011, built in 1969, showing its age but its worth a look on a nice sunny day .
Peterlees 'newtown brutal concrete architecture'. Does exactly what it say on the plaque.
Victor Passmore's Apollo Pavilion is an odd and bleak place surrounded by an odd town, Peterlee. Standing near or on the Apollo Pavilion is an amazing experience, You feel like you've visited an alternative world or at least a time back in the 80s when such structures were common place. Surrounded by Peterlee, The town only adds to the feeling and experience you get by visiting this monument. Peterlee was built together alongside Apollo Pavilion and the buildings surrounding the monument were laid out by the artist. They originally had flat roofs which complement the brutalist design of the Pavilion, However now most have been converted to have a slope. Apollo Pavilion and Brutalism might not be considered nice looking but for me its a place I'd recommend, Not all experiences have to be nice.
