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Travelogue • Volume 01
London, UK

London's Concrete Brutalism

Published on July 18, 2024 · 9 min read

London's Concrete Brutalism
London's Concrete — cover

London’s brutalist landmarks are often described as heavy. In person, they feel more like instruments—mass tuned for public life.

The Barbican is a city inside a city: water, concrete, theater light, pockets of quiet that shouldn’t exist in the center. I photographed corridors as if they were landscapes, because in a way they are.

On the Southbank, scale shifts constantly. A brutalist mass meets glass, meets river, meets sky. The compositions almost arrange themselves—if you are patient enough to wait for a clean moment without a billboard shouting through the frame.

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