The Architect · George · London
National Theatre
I fight anyone who calls this building ugly. The horizontal layers — inspired by Aztec temples and English landscape terraces simultaneously — are compositionally brilliant.
Lasdun's 1976 concrete theatre is the definitive London Brutalist civic building. The layered terraces and fly towers are inseparable from the South Bank skyline.
— George, The Architect
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