Destroyed London Buildings
Several of Smirke's London buildings are no longer extant, the victims of demolition, fire and the London Blitz:
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“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
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