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.
London Housing Design Guide launched
August 18th, 2010
UPDATE 2/3/17 The London Housing Design Guide has been superseded by the London SPG on housing This includes the design standards which makes it mandatory for all housing projects in London.
Mae Architects and the London Development Agency (LDA) have published the new London Housing Design Guide (interim edition), setting out guidelines for all new public homes in the capital.
Download a copy from the London Development Agency -> here <-
Click image above for full page
The London Evening Standard has a good review of the guide here:-
https://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23868332-boris-the-builder-the-mayors-vision-for-london-housing.do
Mapping existing housing standards from CABE
https://www.cabe.org.uk/files/mapping-existing-housing-standards.pdf
Go away you’re poor
August 16th, 2010
Following the report from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research entitled “High Density Housing – The Impact on tenants” I have come to the conclusion, along with other indicators, that the current attitude of developers and some housing associations to their tenants is “go away you’re poor”.
HIGH DENSITY HOUSING – THE IMPACT ON TENANTS:
From Building Design 14/6/13
Cassie O’Keyboard | 12 June 2013 1:54 pm
Another interesting thing about this typology of having maisonettes over flats is that there isn’t any shared circulation space so the residents don’t have to pay a service charge. Particularly for social housing this can make a big difference to how affordable it actually is to live there.
The second article in the series linked below:-
Hope VI – or go away you’re poor II
