Maiden Lane Estate – Camden
July 6th, 2010
November 8th 2018 UPDATE: I went round Maiden Lane with a resident and two friends earlier this year to see what had been done. The new blocks are out of scale with the older blocks while mimicking them architecturally; and the sunken gardens are badly shaded.
The estate has had a coat of paint and some repairs from the profits derived from sale of private flats in the new tower.
UPDATE: Film of the estate at 12:38 Architecture_at_the_Crossroads
THE GOOD NEWS . . .
When I walked onto the Maiden Lane Estate (“by the great Scottish Corbusian architects Benson and Forsyth” – Douglas Murphy) I hated it, run down and flaking paint. When I left an hour later I loved it, a strong Art Deco feel and the knowledge that there’s nothing wrong with it structurally, it just needs badly tidying up and painting. Why won’t Camden Council do it up?
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I love the Art Deco towers, I don’t know what is inside them but they are reminiscent of a 1930s Odeon cinema.