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IBM Building, South Bank, London[edit]

Grade II-listed on 19/6/2020. Some more info on Lasdun in the listing particulars. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 22:24, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sincere or Ironic Praise from John Betjeman[edit]

The second sentence in the paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Lasdun#Late_work states "King Charles compared it to a nuclear power station but it was popular with other traditionalists, with John Betjeman writing Lasdun a letter in praise of its design." However, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre#Architecture, the letter John Betjeman wrote to Lasdun "praising" him was ironic: "John Betjeman, a man not noted for his enthusiasm for brutalist architecture, wrote to Lasdun stating ironically that he "gasped with delight at the cube of your theatre in the pale blue sky and a glimpse of St Paul's to the south of it. It is a lovely work and so good from so many angles...it has that inevitable and finished look that great work does.""

Clearly only one of these articles is correct, since the former states the praise was sincere while the latter states the praise was ironic. If the latter is correct then it would invalidate the former's entire paragraph thesis that "it was popular with other traditionalists", or at least requiring some other proof of this popularity. 143.177.112.154 (talk) 14:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]