World’s End Chelsea
September 19th, 2011
Great estate, love the burnt umber bricks, so much better to look at than raw concrete. Lovely use of communal garden space within the courtyard level above the car park at 1st floor level. Have some doubts about the – bordering on – single aspect tower block flats,but they have at least been designed so that every flat has a SW facing window even if it’s only one, and they are popular.
Pullman Court Streatham
September 19th, 2011
Sunday afternoon, the 159 from Brixton tube station and a 15 minute bus ride takes you to the bus garage beside which stands Pullman Court.
Brentford walk(ing) in the rain
September 19th, 2011
Some years ago one lunchtime, while working in a building near Kew Bridge [*], I took a walk along the high road to Brentford and unexpectedly came across some attractive old houses – in disbelief – because they didn’t quite match the somewhat industrial and commercial appearance of the High St.
Alexandra Road – interior
September 19th, 2011
UPDATE 19th March 2018: How I wish I had taken those photographs from 5’6″ and not 6′. Here’s a tip, if you’re photographing interiors and you’re tall, lower the camera.
The owner kindly opened her original and attractive dual aspect flat to the public for a day. Beautiful and well appointed 1970s flat flooded with light, lots of wood on display, large windows, intelligent use of sliding screens to separate kitchen / diner from living room (architect Neave Brown).
Highpoint 1 Highgate
August 20th, 2011
During a week in London while looking at Lubetkin’s buildings this one came round on a rather soggy Saturday afternoon, the large ribbon windows proving a delight in the face of modern housing design that prefers to keeps its owners in the dark.
From Here to Modernity – Part One
More photos at my Flickr page:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/singleaspect/sets/72157627430102967/
Modern Architecture has photos and floor plans here:-
https://modernarchitecturelondon.com/pages/highpoint.php
Architects Journal Buildings Library
https://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/2902
Barking Reach & Rivergate Centre
August 17th, 2011
UPDATE: 17th August 2015 – Guardian -> No change then
Some respectable architecture aside, it is a shaming place.
Following the arrival of my London Open House brochure I sauntered off to Barking along the District line to Barking station and took the 387 out to Barking Riverside. (Actually I decided to walk and got lost but that’s another story). If you know what you’re doing you can walk out of Barking Station, cross the road to stand H and get on the 387, Oyster card in hand.
Click image for full bus map
Stonebridge Estate
September 14th, 2010
In the week before this year’s Open House weekend I toured London at some pace with the 2010 brochure in my bag, and this was one of the visits I made – Stonebridge Estate and Fawood Childrens’ Centre.
Stonebridge Hillside Hub
Photos from September 2010
https://www.flickr.com/photos/singleaspect/sets/72157627521049825/
Story of estate leading up to the regeneration
https://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/15/gang-wars-police-supergrass-help
Alexandra Road Camden
August 27th, 2010
UPDATE: Film of the estate at 8:00 Architecture_at_the_Crossroads
Made famous by The Bill on location, designed by Neave Brown under Sydney Cook as part of Cook’s Camden, and well known as one of a series of Modernist housing estates across London, Alexandra Road stands as a landmark both literally and metaphorically in the history of post war housing.
