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@Jurek
I have a couple of architectural booklets by Samantha Hardingham, called 'London'.
They deal with contemporary buildings in err..... London. The older of the two was published in '93 and contains these gems:
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I had not long left Central St Martins. Cascades represented the future in, what was then, smash-n-grab Britain.
Compare it to that view today, when it has been dwarfed by all corporate else around it. It looks almost surreal.
Whether or not that particular style has dated gracefully isn't important (to me).
The importance of that building lay in how breathtaking and ground-breaking it was. Nothing like it had been previously seen, when it was built - certainly not in terms of private residential premises. I'll always have a soft spot for it for that reason