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High Point One

Designed and built in 1935 by Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin Highpoint One in Highgate is one of the best examples of early International Style modernist archiecture in the UK. It was built by Tecton Group and engineered by Ove Arup the Swiss architect Le Corbusier was moved enough by the building to remark "For a long time I have dreamed of executingdwellings in such conditions for the good of humanity. The building at Highgate is an achievement of the first rank".

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Uploaded on September 28, 2013
Taken on September 21, 2013