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Architecture film sparks new call to list Southbank Centre

Twentieth Century Society want ‘immunity to listing’ London building to be rejected

The Southbank Centre was once voted Britain’s ugliest building, but fresh interest in its architecture following the success of The Brutalist movie, has prompted a renewed call to get it listed. For 34 years successive governments have resisted proposals to list the centre – a concrete set of buildings that include the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Rooms and Queen Elizabeth Hall. Catherine Croft, director of the C20S, said: “This visionary combination of performance spaces and art gallery is a postwar architectural masterpiece, and is perhaps the most totemic – and controversial – example of British brutalism, currently in the spotlight thanks to the Oscar nominated film of the same name.”

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