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Retrospect Museum of the built and made · est. 1948

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Concrete and the louvre

First floor 68 objects out Free, no booking

Concrete floor slabs stepping out over a colonnade, photographed from below

Between 1944 and about 1975 the way Jamaica built changed completely, and this room is that change in objects. A hand mould for hollow block. A pierced screen block in the star pattern. An aluminium louvre with its crank still turning.

The test cube from the pour outside this building is not in here, because it is in bay 9. Ask and it comes up.