A Northampton bus station dubbed "the mouth of hell" has been demolished.
The Greyfriars bus station was built in 1976, an example of brutalist architecture, and was so despised that the Lonely Planet guide once described it as "infamously ugly".
It was costing taxpayers £500,000 in repairs each year and the council claimed it would cost almost £30m to renovate it. So the three-storey building, which included a car park and offices, had been left to deteriorate.
A new bus station opened last year and so Northampton Borough Council decided the old one should go, in an event streamed live to more than 1,300 people in order to discourage them from risking their safety at the scene.
The council set up an exclusion zone and evacuated 414 homes near the four-acre town centre site as a precaution.
David Macintosh, leader of the council, said, despite the building's ugliness, residents had expressed some sadness leading up to its demolition.
He said: "It's funny because, in the last couple of months, people have said, 'we will miss it'.
"It's not very well-liked, and is now redundant. 'The mouth of hell' sums it up perfectly."
The bus station also featured on a Channel 4 series called Demolition in 2005, when it was voted third favourite out of 12 buildings that should be demolished.
It was during this programme that the "mouth of hell" moniker was coined by broadcaster Kevin McCloud.
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