More concrete

While the concreting was generally pretty good, this snap illustrates the dangers of using raw concrete, without the plank shuttering camouflage favoured fifty years ago. At, for example, the National Theatre, a little way upstream.

Rather ugly joins between the sheets of cheap plywood used to make the shutters and rather ugly joins between one pour and the next. Some signs of segregation at the bottom of shutters.

Presumably cheaper than the marble cladding favoured by financial institutions, despite the large overall bill mentioned earlier. But it is an honest approach: what you see is what you get - rather than one inch slabs of marble being fixed on top of and hiding the concrete structure. A lot of fancy dead weight.

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