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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.
Goldfinger's thirty-one storeys, with the lifts in a separate tower joined every third floor.
TowersConcrete & brutalist
Erno Goldfinger designed it for the Greater London Council and it opened in 1972, a second and taller go at his Balfron Tower in Poplar. The idea is legible from the street: everything noisy - lifts, rubbish chutes, boiler house - is put in a slim separate tower and joined to the flats by bridges at every third storey, so that only one floor in three has a corridor and most flats run through the building and get light from both sides. It went through a bad two decades and became shorthand for everything wrong with tower blocks; it is now protected at the second-highest grade, the flats are sought after, and the profile is on tea towels.
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