Editing Glamorgan (section)

====Buildings and structures, 1920–1974====
[[File:Hayes Point.jpg|thumb|Sully Hospital, now apartments]]

After the First World War, Glamorgan, as was typical for Britain as a whole, entered a period of modernity, which saw buildings built and designed for [[Functionalism (architecture)|functionality]] rather than splendour with period features watered down.<ref name="Davies35">Davies (2008), p.35</ref> As the century progressed, symbols of the past industrial period were torn down and replaced with industrial estates populated by unadorned geometric factories. With concrete becoming the favourite post-war building material, larger office blocks began appearing within the cities, though few were of any architectural significance.

Despite entering a fallow period of architectural design, several structures of note did emerge. Although work began in 1911, [[National Museum Cardiff|The National Museum of Wales]] (Smith and Brewer) was not completed until 1927 due to the First World War. Designed to reflect sympathetically in dimensions with its neighbouring city hall, the dome-topped museum combines many architectural motifs with Doric columns at its facade, while internally a large entrance hall with stairs, landings and balconies. [[Percy Thomas]]' [[Swansea Guildhall|Guildhall]] in Swansea, an example of the [[modernist architecture|'stripped modernist']] style completed in 1936, was described as "Wales' finest interwar building".<ref>Davies (2008), p.843</ref>

Although functionality often deprived a building of interest, [[Sully, Vale of Glamorgan#Sully Hospital|Sully Hospital]] (Pite, Son & Fairweather) is an example of a building which gained from its functional requirements. Initially built for tubercular patients, whose cure required the maximum amount of light and air,<ref>Newman (1995), p.575</ref> the functional architecture left a striking glass-fronted building, completed in 1936.<ref name="Davies35"/>

Another hospital to which functionalism was applied was the [[University Hospital of Wales]] (S.W. Milburn & Partners). Begun in the 1960s, and completed in 1971, the building is the third largest hospital in the United Kingdom and the largest in Wales.<ref>{{cite news|title=More hospital emergencies delays |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6406895.stm|date=1 March 2007 |access-date=27 July 2010|work=BBC News}}</ref> It was designed to bring the care of patients, research and medical teaching together under one roof.<ref>Newman (1995), p.286</ref>

The demands of modern living saw the growth of housing estates throughout Glamorgan, moving away from the Victorian terrace of Cardiff or the ribbon cottages of the valleys. Several of these projects were failures architecturally and socially. Of note were the Billybanks estate in Penarth and [[Penrhys#Modern Penrhys|Penrhys Estate]] (Alex Robertson, Peter Francis & Partners) in the Rhondda, both described by [[Malcolm Parry]], the former Head of the School of Architecture at Cardiff University, as "...the worst examples of architecture and planning in Wales."<ref>{{cite web|title=Graffiti-covered and soulless – derelict Welsh flats are named one of UK's worst eyesores |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/03/24/graffiti-covered-and-soulless-derelict-welsh-flats-are-named-one-of-uk-s-worst-eyesores-91466-26096371/|date=24 March 2007 |access-date=27 July 2010|publisher=WalesOnline}}</ref>