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COVENTRY RINGROAD

A monolithic mass of concrete and wire that snakes around the city centre, Coventry ringroad expresses both the clean lines and hulking mass of brutalist superstructures reflecting the boom-build-break period of the 1960s-70s.

Construction of the ringroad began in the late-1950s and was completed in 1974,, straddling emergent Modernism and reaching towards the Brutalist era. It would reflect the reconstruction period that emerged from the ruins of World War Two and the German Luftwaffe’s ‘Coventriern/coventration’ airel bombing campaigns.

Like Birmingham’s tangled heart of traffic ‘Spaghetti Junction’, where the M6 clashes with the A38, the ringroad contains multitudes of flux and transmission. Under and over passes flow like water as slip roads peel away from the main loop finding new trajectories through nine X-lane criss-cross junctions, it offers a strange eye-to-sky level, driving alongside many of the city’s tallest and most iconic buildings, with the three spires dominating the skyline.