Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Tower Blocks UK: Westminster City Lisson Green, l54-03.jpg
Multi-storey block details: one 8-storey block containing 94 dwellings; twenty-four 7-storey blocks containing 1095 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 54 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): Wycombe House; Wingmore House; Verney House; Turville House; Tickford House; Swanbourne House; Simpson House; Risborough House; Padbury House; Olney House; Missenden House; Linslade House; Lavendon House; Kimble House; Jordans House; Hughenden House; Horwood House; Hardwick House; Gayhurst House; Fulmer House; Fingest House; Dinton House; Cottesloe House; Chetwode House; Chequers House; Bledlow House; Image detail: General view of Lisson Green Original Commissioning Authority: City of Westminster London Borough Council; Image taken: 1989;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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Westminster City Lisson Green, l54-03.jpg
Multi-storey block details: one 8-storey block containing 94 dwellings; twenty-four 7-storey blocks containing 1095 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 54 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): Wycombe House; Wingmore House; Verney House; Turville House; Tickford House; Swanbourne House; Simpson House; Risborough House; Padbury House; Olney House; Missenden House; Linslade House; Lavendon House; Kimble House; Jordans House; Hughenden House; Horwood House; Hardwick House; Gayhurst House; Fulmer House; Fingest House; Dinton House; Cottesloe House; Chetwode House; Chequers House; Bledlow House; Image detail: General view of Lisson Green Original Commissioning Authority: City of Westminster London Borough Council; Image taken: 1989;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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Westminster City Lisson Green, l54-03.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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720
| British Library Online Contents | 1997
Online Contents | 1997