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That looks like it's straight out of Children Of Men. I guess a picture from St. Pancras wouldn't quite have the same punch.

England is very into that retro-Soviet palette.

Many people for some reason believe that Brutalism was a Soviet invention but no, it originated in the post-WW2 Britain and spread from there.

It was heavily influenced from outside Britain though, particularly Le Corbusier

Brutalist architecture; quite possibly the worst thing come out of post-WW2 Britain, just behind Piers Morgan.

To be fair, the Folkestone terminal is quite... functional.