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- Skylon was designed to counter the materiality of the nearby Dome of Discovery.
- It was a needle suspended in mid air by tension cables and floodlit at night.
- Skylon was destroyed on the orders of Winston Churchill in 1952 for being a symbol of socialism. The cables were cut and it toppled over into the Thames.
- There have been multiple plans to reerect it, the most recent in 2004, but so far a lack of funding to pay for the estimated £800,000 budget has prevented this.
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- Architect
- Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya
- Developer
- Festival of Britain
- Other Contractors
- British Insulated Callenders Cables
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- Reference No.
- 3805
- First Uploaded
- 19-02-2006
- Last Editorial Date
- 18-07-2010
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- Address
- Festival Hall, London. SE1
- Council
- Southwark
- County
- London
- Region
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- Demolished
- Construction start date
- 1951
- Completion date
- 1951
- Demolition Date
- 1952
- Style
- Modernist
- Pinnacle Height (AGL)
- 91.00
- Pinnacle Type
- Spire
Market Data- Primary Use
- Monuments
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