I guess also the Dutch were (and still are) good at using the concepts of Brutalist architecture without making the building too bad inside! But English squatters would have busted at least one if not all of the glass windows, and sprayed crap or even offensive graffiti on every corner rather than make those wonderful backdrops..
That said, the accompanying article may help to explain why a decade later even the Dutch squatters lost the popular consensus in NL which had previously permitted their existence.. however I remember those days in England, perhaps we had it too good back then?
