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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 white slabs on the hill at Highgate, and the building Le Corbusier came to look at.
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Berthold Lubetkin designed Highpoint I in 1935 for Sigmund Gestetner, the office-equipment manufacturer, with the structure engineered by Ove Arup: sixty-four flats in a double cross plan, in reinforced concrete, white, flat-roofed and unlike anything else in England at the time. Le Corbusier visited that year and called it a revolution. Highpoint II followed in 1938 next door, and Lubetkin - by then arguing with the planners, who wanted something more traditional - answered them by propping the entrance canopy on two plaster casts of caryatids from the Erechtheion in Athens. It is a joke and it is load-bearing.
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