'Dr Martin and his colleagues have achieved something without precedent in this country and with very little precedent elsewhere: a modern building - modern in the sense of owing allegiance to no other age but ours ...' This is how J. M. Richards began his critique of the Royal Festival Hall in the June 1951 issue of AR. The entire issue was devoted to the building and, as such, expressed the huge significance of the project at that time. Initially the building stood surrounded by the array of temporary buildings that occupied the remainder of the South Bank site of the Festival of Britain.
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