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Elizabeth Hopkirk
Senior architects have paid tribute to John Bancroft who has died aged 82.
Bancroft spent much of his career designing schools for the London County Council (LCC) architects' department.
His most significant project was Pimlico School, a building that sought to instill a sense of community among its pupils through the provision of a high level of internal transparency.
The concrete and glass comprehensive divided opinion and was demolished in 2008 to make way for an academy.
But Bancroft - along with the school's many admirers -...