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The reality of London s high-rise flats has been captured in a series of telling snapshots. Italian photographer Marco Sconocchia said that his fascination for the British working classes, spurred on by bands like Oasis and The Stone Roses, prompted him to capture the images as part of an exhibition titled Utopia. Most of the Council estates that were built in the fifties and sixties encompassed the Brutalist architecture of the postwar period. The majority of the tenement blocks were erected following the Socialist plan of providing modern housing to low income families. The intimidating towers loomed high into the sky on the outskirts of the capital. ....