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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.
A precast concrete lattice of 1966 that stood completely empty for nine years.
TowersConcrete & brutalist
George Marsh of Richard Seifert's office designed it and it went up between 1963 and 1966 - 117 metres, thirty-four floors, one of London's first skyscrapers - on a deal with the council that involved re-routing St Giles High Street underneath it. The facade is its argument: a lattice of precast concrete pieces, each one a shallow chevron, stacked into a screen that changes as you move round it. Then nothing happened. The tower stood empty from completion until 1975 while its value rose, which made it the emblem of everything people disliked about post-war property development, and housing activists occupied it in 1974. It was protected in 1995 and turned into flats in 2015.
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