The Southbank Centre, a forbidding post-war concrete complex formerly visited only by serious culture consumers, has been transformed.

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At that point I ducked behind the concrete post.

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Not all concrete ideals of the post-war building boom have survived, Alison and Peter Smithson's polemic Robin Hood Gardens in east London is not long for this life, despite the protestations of the architectural elite.

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Sunday, having installed a new fence post, new metal meshing and part of the concrete wall.

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