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The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hayward Gallery — the Southbank Centre's 1960s expansion — were designed by the GLC Architects Department at a moment when British architecture believed concrete could be genuinely civic: bold, public, unapologetic. The cantilevered forms visible here are characteristic of that conviction. Terraces project beyond the building's upper mass without hesitation, the horizontal slabs pushing into open air as a structural statement as much as a practical one. Above, rough aggregate concrete; below, board-marked horizontal striations — two different surface treatments on the same corner, both left exactly as they came from the formwork. Against a deep blue Thames-side sky, the building's corner reads as sculpture. The architects didn't soften it. They never intended to.
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