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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
Two curving concrete terraces stepped like a street, and the first post-war council estate to be protected.
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Neave Brown designed it in 1968 for Camden's own architects' department, and it was built between 1972 and 1978: 520 flats in long stepped terraces of white, site-cast, board-marked concrete, with a school, a community centre and a youth club built in. It is not a tower and not a slab. The section is the point - every flat has its own front door on a deck and its own outdoor space, and the whole thing is arranged as a street you can walk down rather than a block you enter. It cost far more than budgeted, a public inquiry followed, and Neave Brown never built in Britain again. In 1993 it became the first post-war council estate in the country to be protected.
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