Barbican Estate
Podium gardens, a lake, three towers named for poets. A private city that took London thirty years to soften toward.
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The unrepentant concrete of postwar London.
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Trellick Tower
The service tower stands apart and bridges back every third floor; the gaps between are the whole composition.
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National Theatre, London
Terraces stepping down to the river, board-marked inside and out — geology you can buy a ticket into.
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