Posthumous Reputation
The Royal Institute of British Architects' book about Spence's life and work, "Basil Spence: Buildings and Projects", published in 2012, remarks that in hindsight, Hutchesontown C diverged sharply from Spence's other mass-housing projects and that there is a debate about whether his attempt to design a building with a "forceful, metaphoric character" was appropriate for mass housing. The book complains about the "indignant media cacophony" which accompanied debates about Hutchesontown C before it was demolished.
The building does however retain some notoriety. An exhibition at Gorbals Library paying tribute to Spence in early 2008 was heavily criticised by a former local councillor who noted that the blocks had become known as 'Alcatraz'.
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