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Barclays Bank Central Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Robert Colin Cosmo BENNETT: Architect

Date: 1960s [?] Type: Bank Status: Unknown Street: Smith Street

'One of Dunban's best modern buildings', having a gold metal and glass wall set back between wide stone piers and slim roof slab, demonstrating that size is not a criterion for good architecture (Greig, 1971: 110). All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.