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Tower Blocks UK: Brighton and Hove City Somerset Street redevelopment area (Stages I and II) and Somerset Street Comprehensive Development Area (Stages I-II), s3-17.jpg
Multi-storey block details: SSR I: two 13-storey blocks containing 146 dwellings; SSR II: one 17-storey block containing 128 dwellings; SSC: two 17-storey blocks containing 192 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): SSR I: Warwick Mount; Somerset Point; SSR II: Essex Place; SSC: Wiltshire House; Hereford Court; Image detail: General view of Somerset Street redevelopment from Essex Place Original Commissioning Authority: Brighton County Borough 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 details of the individual blocks built.
Tower Blocks UK: Brighton and Hove City Somerset Street redevelopment area (Stages I and II) and Somerset Street Comprehensive Development Area (Stages I-II), s3-17.jpg
Multi-storey block details: SSR I: two 13-storey blocks containing 146 dwellings; SSR II: one 17-storey block containing 128 dwellings; SSC: two 17-storey blocks containing 192 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): SSR I: Warwick Mount; Somerset Point; SSR II: Essex Place; SSC: Wiltshire House; Hereford Court; Image detail: General view of Somerset Street redevelopment from Essex Place Original Commissioning Authority: Brighton County Borough 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 details of the individual blocks built.
Tower Blocks UK: Brighton and Hove City Somerset Street redevelopment area (Stages I and II) and Somerset Street Comprehensive Development Area (Stages I-II), s3-17.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles
2023-05-17
Image
Electronic Resource
English
Architecture Building and Planning::Housing , walk-up flats , modernism , Zeilenbau , sectional planning , postmodernism , public housing , modern architecture , mass housing , prefabrication , multi-storey block , neighbourhood unit , low-rise housing , tenement block , residential district , tower block , housing scheme , enterprise housing , socialism , landscape architecture , Art Deco , industrialised building , slab block , housing estate
DDC:
720
| BASE | 2023
Tower Blocks UK: Brighton and Hove City Blackman Street redevelopment, s3-22.jpg
| BASE | 2023