Reality of London’s high-rise flats has been shown in unearthed snapshots

High Rise Britain: Italian photographer peeks inside the brutalist buildings of London’s council estates

  • Italian photographer Marco Sconocchia said that his fascination for the British working classes prompted himĀ 
  • Council estates built in the fifties and sixties encompassed the Brutalist architecture of the postwar period
  • They quickly became home to hundreds of family who were uprooted from their lives in central London

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