50 Wonders | Denise Bennetts: Royal College of Physicians

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The Bennetts Associates co-founder appreciates Denys Lasdun’s daring response to a historic site

Wonder: Royal College of Physicians

Architect: Denys Lasdun, 1964

Nominator: Denise Bennetts

For a student in the 1970s, Denys Lasdun’s work was a rich resource in which to test nascent understanding of the hierarchy of functions and spaces, legibility, materiality and the articulation of form.

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