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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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The Southbank Centre is striking, polarising and now protected

Southbank Centre, London
Southbank Centre, London. ‘It has become a remarkable symbol of the zeitgeist,’ says Francis Bown. Photograph: John East

Fiona Twycross, the heritage minister, is to be congratulated for finally giving London’s Southbank Centre Grade II listing (Campaigners welcome ‘long overdue’ listing of brutalist Southbank Centre, 10 February).

I remember being shocked when I first saw it in the 1960s, but it has become a remarkable symbol of the zeitgeist.

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