 Hello, thank you for joining me. I've just arrived in my larder in Peterlea. Peterlea is a new town in County Durham We're here in this housing estate. The reason I've brought you to this housing estate is because there's something quite exciting down here So leave the car there Walk down through these bungalows and get a bit of a surprise. There is some Not sure if it's called it architecture or art or both really. I really like it. It's not everyone's cup of tea But as we come down to here There's a lake in front of us a stream dug out into a lake and then straddling the lake We have this concrete beast. It's known as the Apollo Pavilion It was designed by the architect Victor Palsmaus. It's also known as Palsmaus Pavilion So if you look around the houses you see this is the Peterlea new town It was originally planned by Lebeckin but his designs turned down so various other architects got involved This is how the houses was originally looked with a flat roof But as we'll see soon some of them have had a pitch roof In fact, I can show you with one of these bungalows here have had a pitch roof put on and because I suppose flat roof You know they let water in sometimes when they get old if you look on this bungalow here See how on the Gable End there's a clear line where there's newer brickwork, but the main thing of course we have come here to see is this pavilion I think it's really cool It's just a great piece of Brutalist like I said art stroke architecture doesn't really serve a purpose other than it's just here And it's I like it. It's different. It's a great two-star listed building It had you know been threatened with demolition all through the 90s and finally In around 2009 it was awarded a great two-star listed building It's one of only about four buildings in the northeast to have that high level of protection So the lake comes to here Which gives us all sorts of reflections So we're gonna walk under here And then there's a another section of water Walk under there afterwards We've been up here first and then you can see there's a waterfall and the stream goes off there like a giant water slide But let's now go Here we can't actually go into the middle of it We can certainly we'll go up here and have a look at the you can see how it was Cast so it's like this section was cast this section's part cast a bit like Making a giant Lego set except you've made the bricks as you did it and then there we go you get a view looking through So yeah, it's a shame we can't go in I really would have liked to have gone in there But we get a good look around the rest of the building. I think what we'll do just go down here That's interesting to see this what looks like Sticking out just for the sake of actually holding a light in there So that has kind of got a purpose, but the fun thing about this architecture is some you know parts of it Don't like they just stick out For fun, but yes, it's different and exciting and like I say it's my I don't know if Attractive is the word. It's kind of ugly, but ugly in a nice way. I like it Let's go down this winding path down here, which looks like this path is only here Just to take you to somewhere to have a look Look at that stream. It's like a there's more water. It looks like a giant water slide Take me away from the pavilion And then I said more houses must be quite sort of strange and exciting living here, you know, you live there That's your house That's your neighbor so the stream Goes off down there See it's just below us And it winds its way up up to the waterfall the concrete waterfall of the pavilion We'll do now. Well, then we'll go another Look closer. Like I said, I'd like to take you upstairs and I think the problem is in the past it has had a few problems of antisocial behavior and So that's probably why they close it off But you know, at least we can go through it it could have been demolished So easily in the 90s as so many brutalist structures did and the fact that this one, you know It's not like people lived or worked in it is just here You know, it doesn't really have a purpose other than just being Something to look at and for people like me to come and make a video of that's kind of its main Purpose really just to be It does look a bit like the sort of thing I've made out of Lego though when I was a child Just doesn't have water in my Lego This bit feels a bit like being in an old story carpark somewhere. It does remind me a little bit It's not the same market it but of the Tri-Con Center in Portsmouth, which was a brutalist shopping center Which unfortunately was demolished in 2004 So I've got this piece sticking out here and There's a light in it, but really I think that bit up there is there purely just for decoration The only actual paintings on it that I believe original is see that oval funny-shaped mural again That just adds to the abstracts of the building That's interesting up there Not sure what it is, but there's something there Don't think that's a light that one. It might be a drinking fountain. Unfortunately. We can't go up to look There's some information here on it though. It says Apollo Pavilion by Victor Parsmore in 1969 for one various awards, Civic Trust Award So walk through here on to this Cobble floor and then there's the Lake again. I don't know if there's any fish in there in the lake. I'm not too sure. It might be We get another view. It's nice now I like how the sun's shining on it and you get those all the different grays just like every shade of gray Seems to be in there and this this funny thing here. This is a another abstract statue this here This was also designed by the same architect and here's the other Painting which I believe to be original. So that's also part of the building There's another one of those things. I was guessing it was a drinking fountain, but since it's one on this side I can't exactly go there for a drink. So not too short though If anyone knows if it serves the purpose or is it purely just part of the abstract of the building then do comment And let me know So what I'm gonna do now, I'm going to Head into town find a pub for dinner. I've enjoyed coming out here somewhere I've always known about and just never got round to Visiting but soon as I'm up in the northeast this weekend for the IFA event So if you may have seen the video I did at North Road Station at Darlington where we were joined by a future bounce and a walk There will be more videos coming from this weekend. There'll be more Eastern block cars But I just thought I'd come down here to do this bit. Seeing as I was so close I just yeah couldn't resist coming to see this pavilion. Look at it now. I think that's really cool It's um, I don't I still don't quite know what to make of it and other than I like it. It's different It's here, you know for the sake of being here Luckily, it wasn't demolished like it so easily could have been like so many brutalist buildings have been only some brutalist buildings Aren't worth saving and you can't save everything, but this this is a building I think really should have been saved it has been saved So I'm really happy about that and we can come and enjoy it So, you know if you're ever up here in Peter Lee if you're, you know, maybe going up to the north Why not call in here have a look at it as I did and Marvel of this brutalist wonder we have here in Peter Lee So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from this Very different unusual whatever you want to call it pavilion. Goodbye