I had wanted to see Hunstanton School, a building of such importance in the modernist canon, won in competition by Alison and Peter Smithson in 1950, when Alison was only twenty, and completed in 1954, a post-war dream of the future.

I had been warned that it might be under scaffolding which it will be from September when it becomes a building site and it sounds as if it will have to be totally reconstructed, as well as properly insulated, which it never was.  And, of course, one isn’t allowed to visit.  So, all one gets is a distant view across the playing fields of a low-lying Miesian box:-