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Folio: Denys Lasdun’s model graveyard - 1 February 2019 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
Designed by Denys Lasdun between 1963 and 1976, the National Theatre on London’s South Bank was plagued with funding issues, brief revisions, and a move to an entirely new site downstream, four years in. The project provoked much controversy: Prince Charles described it as a ‘clever way of building a nuclear power station in the middle of London without anyone objecting’, and by the time it was completed in 1976 – 13 years after Lasdun began – the concrete Brutalism was considered out of fashion by many. Regardless, the building was Grade II-listed in 1994 and renovated in 2015 by Haworth Tompkins, and is today widely considered one of London’s greatest.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Folio: Denys Lasdun’s model graveyard - 1 February 2019 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
Designed by Denys Lasdun between 1963 and 1976, the National Theatre on London’s South Bank was plagued with funding issues, brief revisions, and a move to an entirely new site downstream, four years in. The project provoked much controversy: Prince Charles described it as a ‘clever way of building a nuclear power station in the middle of London without anyone objecting’, and by the time it was completed in 1976 – 13 years after Lasdun began – the concrete Brutalism was considered out of fashion by many. Regardless, the building was Grade II-listed in 1994 and renovated in 2015 by Haworth Tompkins, and is today widely considered one of London’s greatest.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)