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Built between 1963 and 1977, the 2700 dwellings of the Aylesbury Estate were initially regarded as flagship example of post-war clearance and modernist urban planning. The idyll did not last long and now a major – and inevitably contentious - regeneration programme is well under way, involving demolition on a vast scale.

Harriet Mena Hill started working on the estate running art projects with residents in 2018; as demolition progressed, she started collecting concrete debris from the sites recycling it as a series of “portraits” of the disappearing estate. These “fragments” have been shown …