Southwyck House

[2] It was commissioned by Lambeth Council and approved by a planning committee which included future prime minister John Major.

[3] The block is in the Brutalist style and has similarities to Park Hill, Sheffield and Byker Wall, Tyneside.

[4] It was designed in 1968-70 by a team of architects including Magda Borowiecka, and built between 1972-1981.

[5] The building was designed to account for the South Cross Route motorway passing adjacent to the building, and although the motorway plan was scrapped in 1973, the design was kept, including small windows on the wall that would have faced this flyover.

[1] Borowiecka said "The motorway would have been 60ft up in the air, so I needed to create a blank wall going up higher than that.