It’s a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit… — Ben Aaronovitch
It’s a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning.
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