Declared "one of the wonders of the modern world" by the Queen, when she finally opened it in 1982, it has since gone on to top the polls of London's most reviled buildings – despite its panoramic flats swapping hands for many millions.
He takes up residence, via flat swap, in the grand apartments of Martin Asprey Jason Isaacss), a rich, famous writer who is looking for rough inspiration in the squalor of Young's Hell's Kitchen dive.
Eventually he decided to do a flat-swap with an Italian friend and take a seven-month sabbatical in Rome.
Soon, though, he was in control, hamming it up with his flat-capped guitarist and swapping lines with the baying audience.
We fled the capital almost a decade ago, swapping a rented flat in Kennington, south London, for a mortgage on a ramshackle old house in the Oxford suburbs.
As a "Rising Currents" team, Nordenson, Seavitt, and Adam Yarinsky *87, a principal at Architecture Research Office in New York City, redesigned infrastructures for the Lower Manhattan coastline, adding water slips and swapping out traditional, flat piers for sloping piers with water channels.
In 1938, once it was clear that war was on the way, the family moved to England, swapping their elegant flat with views over the Florentine rooftops for a single room in a Bayswater boarding house with a coin meter for the heating and a bath in a cupboard – and so life switched to black and white.
As the years progressed and my breathing worsened, I was still able to maintain a relatively active life by adapting along the way – swapping heels for flats when I struggled to walk or full-time work for part-time when I couldn't cope with being in the office.
Its latest attempt to help viewers find love or, failing that, a quick bunk-up, was Why Am I Still Single?: First Cut (Channel 4) in which Naomi and Lex, two thirtysomethings, swapped flats and lives for four days to see if they could offer each other any insights about why they were both not in long-term relationships.
How about spurring retirement savings by swapping tax breaks based on income for flat-rate tax credits?
