Leslie Martin, Harold Wilson and the Architecture of White Heat
by
Adam Sharr, Stephen Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London’s historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal...