Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Tower Blocks UK: Lambeth London Ethelred Street Site (Stage II) and Jonathan Street (Blocks 1-2), l27-08.jpg
Multi-storey block details: ES: one 22-storey block containing 113 dwellings; one 20-storey block containing 98 dwellings; one 18-storey block containing 88 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 80 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 18 dwellings; JS: two 13-storey blocks containing 144 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): ES: Ward Point; Sugden House; Elkington Point; Cannon House; Brittany Point; JS: Haymans Point; Coverley Point; Image detail: View of 7-storey block on right, looking South down Lambeth Walk with Coverley Point in distance Original Commissioning Authority: Greater London Council; Image taken: 1988;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains ...
Tower Blocks UK: Lambeth London Ethelred Street Site (Stage II) and Jonathan Street (Blocks 1-2), l27-08.jpg
Multi-storey block details: ES: one 22-storey block containing 113 dwellings; one 20-storey block containing 98 dwellings; one 18-storey block containing 88 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 80 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 18 dwellings; JS: two 13-storey blocks containing 144 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): ES: Ward Point; Sugden House; Elkington Point; Cannon House; Brittany Point; JS: Haymans Point; Coverley Point; Image detail: View of 7-storey block on right, looking South down Lambeth Walk with Coverley Point in distance Original Commissioning Authority: Greater London Council; Image taken: 1988;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains ...
Tower Blocks UK: Lambeth London Ethelred Street Site (Stage II) and Jonathan Street (Blocks 1-2), l27-08.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (Autor:in) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles / Breen, Kat
17.05.2023
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landscape architecture , mass housing , public housing , enterprise housing , tower block , prefabrication , socialism , multi-storey block , neighbourhood unit , housing scheme , housing estate , industrialised building , sectional planning , slab block , Zeilenbau , tenement block , residential district , walk-up flats , low-rise housing , modern architecture , modernism , postmodernism , Art Deco , Architecture Building and Planning::Housing
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Tower Blocks UK: Lambeth London Ethelred Street Site: Stages I-II, l27-14.jpg
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Tower Blocks UK: Lambeth London Ethelred Street Site (Stages I-II) and Hurley Road, l27-15.jpg
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Tower Blocks UK: Lambeth London Jonathan Street, Blocks 1,2, l26-28.jpg
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Tower Blocks UK: Lambeth London Ethelred Street Site: Stage II, l27-13.jpg
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