Hello everyone 'Lurgs' here and just a quick video of the demolition of Amex house in 2017.
Very sad to see this iconic building going in Brighton, the original Cake Building of
course, and if you happen to live in Brighton you are bound to know somebody who's worked
in this building including myself and also my Dad used to work there as well, this building
did look iconic from the outside but unfortunately on the inside it was very old-fashioned, pretty
bad air conditioning and lots of asbestos, believe it or not this building was only about
40 years old when it got knocked down, this building was called Amex house but it was
nicknamed the Wedding Cake and was the former European headquarters of American Express
the multinational financial services company it was located in the Carlton Hill area of
Brighton part of the English city of Brighton and Hove, the nine floor building designed
by British Architecture Firm gollens Melvin Warden Partners was commissioned by the company
in 1977 to consolidate their operations in Brighton which had been spread over several
sites, the new headquarters are now on a spare bit of land behind this site and I'll show
you that at the end of the video, and of course American Express sponsors the current Brighton
and Hove Albion Football team and we are Flying high in the Premiership superb, and if you're
interested there's a link above with some photos of the last ever game at the Goldstone
Ground a very sad day indeed in Brighton, and I'll also put a link in the description
right that's enough talking for me I'll just let you carry on watching the video and maybe
shed just a little tear
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This is the new American Express building not quite as iconic as the original one but
not too bad, I hope you enjoyed that bit of nostalgia, in the top right there's some photos
from the last ever game of the Goldstone ground in 1997 and in the top left some various photos
from Brighton from the 1980s and in the bottom left some old cine footage my Grandad took
of Brighton Marina being constructed...Seagulls.