CONCRETE JUNGLE

The undercroft of London’s brutalist Southbank Centre is host to an unplanned, and some might say undesired skateboarding park. It’s been there since the early ‘80s, this area with unintended ledges, banks, seating and pillars, almost perfectly designed at a time when nobody had heard of a board with wheels as a piece of sports kit. The centre has been described as London’s ugliest building, yet the geometry, the shapes, the disregard for traditional rules, makes it perfect for boarders, and for sketchbooking.