Brutalist National Theatre Print - A3

Denys Lasdun's National Theatre – one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist buildings – is a layered concrete landscape that Prince Charles once described as being like "a nuclear power station". It is formed from two fly towers rising from layered horizontal terraces that wrap around the building, cascading to the river level.

"It exemplifies some of the best aspects of Brutalism: its dynamism, its visceral sense of shock, and the rich, complex and highly contextual spaces it creates." - architectural historian Kester Ratterbury