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An architect s guide to London s most fascinating unknown buildings
Pepper your next lockdown walk with sightings of Tudor skyscrapers in Canonbury, Jacobean squares in Hackney and Cubist flats in Hampstead
9 February 2021 • 4:00pm
Isokon Flats in Hampstead are a stellar example of both the International and Modernist architectural movements
Credit: Andrew Cadey
Chances are you know London’s most famous architecturally significant buildings. The Shard, the Gherkin, The Houses of Parliament, the list goes on. But what of the capital’s lesser known structures? They may be hidden in plain sight, with hundreds of us walking past day after day without a second glance, but many are rife with history – and architectural interest.  ....

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