Word: lookers
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...their adopted child because most of the work on this baby was done in 1947 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the original architect. As power stations go, Bankside was a looker, which is to say that it's a hulking lunker of a building with a tapering chimney that doesn't so much echo the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral on the opposite side of the river as flip it the bird. Nevertheless it has a happy squat symmetry, enhanced by groups of narrow windows that stripe nearly the entire height of the building. It also has size, which...