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OPINION - Britain has stopped building beautiful and the carbuncle known as the South Bank Slab is a new London low

Source: Make Architects

The curious thing about the development known as The Slab, which is to replace the unprepossessing ITV block on the South Bank, is that no one other than the developers has a good word to say for it. Yet Michael Gove approved it last week. The Mayor supported Lambeth council’s planners’ backing for it.

The Twentieth Century Society (which likes the rest of the ) notes that it is “universally derided”. Green campaigners point out that, as with all high-rise buildings, the actual environmental

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