Yabba dabba doo! Could these bulging, Flintstones-style towers be the future of eco-building?
Countless apartment towers have sprouted above London’s stations in recent years, a result of public transport-oriented policies, but none have looked like the Flintstones were in charge.
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- Anyone trying to find Finchley Road & Frognal station need wonder no more: just look for the multistorey Stonehenge.
- Our writer fires up his Flintmobile There’s been a geological eruption on London’s Finchley Road.
Great chunks of pink basalt and igneous larvikite appear to have exploded from the railway cutting, shooting skywards to form teetering towers.
Ruggedly good-looking and greener than bricks and concrete, Petra Heights are made of three-metre slabs of rough rock.
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