Bookmarked: Preston bus station tops architecture poll

Preston's bus station - a masterpiece of 1960s architecture - is topping a national poll of buildings voted for by members of the public. The Lancashire Evening Post says the terminal, which opened in 1969, has attracted more than 100 votes in the Placebook poll run by Preston-based Building Design Partnership (BDP) to mark its 50th anniversary. The bus station was built in the Brutalist architectural style between 1968 and 1969. It was designed by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of Building Design Partnership with E H Stazicker. Apparently some claim that it is the second largest bus station in Western Europe. The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey once described the station as cinematic, sculptural, heroic, a 'baroque cathedral for buses' - and one of the most dramatic public buildings from the 1960s. It is more than 80 votes ahead of the concert hall in Perth , Scotland, in second place and the Abito flats on Salford Quays in third place. Halifax Building Society's building in Halifax is fourth. Rowan Moore recently wrote for The Observer about how Britain is failing its modernist masterpieces . What do you think? Have your say in the comments section below.