Sent to Coventry: the city of culture's brutalist architecture – in pictures

A statue called The Phoenix – commissioned to mark the regeneration of the city centre – stands by the Bull Yard shopping centre

After Coventry’s city centre was flattened by bombing in the second world war, much of it was rebuilt using concrete. Over 10 years Coventry was reshaped, with new shopping centres, blocks of flats and flyovers, and planners from across Europe visited to study the transformation. All photographs: Andrew Fox