Today, passing by the congested, polluted end of Ladbroke Grove in North Kensington, you wouldn't look twice at Kensal House, the modernist white block set back from the road. The dirty modern city has developed around it - a 1990s Sainsbury's supermarket and car park behind, de facto arterial road beyond and Victorian parade opposite minus its shops. You would recognise the 1930s architecture, but the lack of celebration in the urban planning around it may lead you to think it is in the style of Maxwell Fry rather than Fry himself.
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