Fleet Road by Neave Brown – Camden
August 20th, 2011
The architect Neave Brown lives within the estate he designed which stands in the rectangle formed by Fleet Road to the north, Southampton to the East, Dunboyne, private and within estate to the South, and Parkhill to the West. He refers to it as Fleet Road so that’s the one I’ll go with.
Housing – 17 Camden Road, NW1
August 20th, 2011
At the end of a busy week photographing housing schemes in London I found myself in a wet and crowded Camden Town standing on the bank of a canal, brolly wedged under one arm, digital camera precariously balanced in the other hand and trying to avoid fast moving bicycles threatening to knock me into the canal.
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
Branch Hill Hampstead
August 20th, 2011
Built on a slope in the grounds of a large house, Branch Hill is Maiden Lane in miniature, albeit less tatty and with wealthier residents. Both “by the great Scottish Corbusian architects Benson and Forsyth” – Douglas Murphy
I couldn’t help being reminded of my own past where a college was built on a sloping site in the 1970s in the grounds of a stately home. It must have been the pattern of the time, to make the best use of available land.