RADICAL CHIC

摘要

For years the brunswick centre has been a controversial place. It is the kind of building venerated by architectural purists but hated by everybody else. It's one of those 1960s concrete local authority jobs, parachuted into the middle of the gracious Georgian streets of London's Bloomsbury. Hailed as a ground-breaking project in its day, most people only notice the stained concrete facades and down-at-heel shops in its windswept central square. But that is all changing. Today the building resonates to the deafening sound of pneumatic drill on reinforced concrete as contractor InteriorExterior forges ahead with a project to get more people to love the centre.