Detail of the Marchmont Street frontage from SW. Designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, with Sir Leslie Martin, from 1959 onwards, but not built until 1968-72, by which time Hodgkinson was the sole architect. Described by the
Buildings of England: London 4 (1998), p.328, as "London's first influential megastructure" combining housing, shops and other facilities in a single structure. List description:
list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1246230 .
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