Older Than deck / Buildings and landmarks
National Theatre, London
South Bank building opened
1976
Denys Lasdun’s concrete theatre building on the Thames.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“In 1976, under Peter Hall, the move took place and Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre building was opened by The Queen.”National Theatre Archive — Max Hopkinson, Assistant Archivist, original contribution published by APAC: source, retrieved 2026-10-31; quote re-found by the server check
“By its opening in 1976”The Twentieth Century Society — Barnabas Calder, signed original architectural history: source, retrieved 2026-10-31; quote re-found by the server check
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