‘The council tenants weren’t going to be allowed back’: how Britain’s ‘ugliest building’ was gentrified - The Guardian

The east London brutalist landmark Balfron Tower was conceived as the perfect neighbourhood in the sky by its Marxist architect. Now its flats are being sold as ‘trophy properties’

A dizzying dining deck crowns the summit of the newly renovated Balfron Tower in Poplar, east London, perched like a crows nest on top of the brutalist concrete lift shaft. Floating almost 30 storeys… [+15602 chars]

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