Brutalist Skies

Sir Denys Lasdun's National Theatre building, incorporating three separate theatres. Begun in 1969, with the first theatre opening in 1976. The Cottesloe, the last of the three spaces to be completed, opened in March 1977 with Ken Campbell's 8 hour cosmic conspiracy epic Illuminatus, an adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's mindblowing trilogy. Ideal fare for a new modernist building, the poured concrete barely dry, and a hard act to follow.