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Tower Blocks UK: Birmingham City Castle Bromwich (Public School No. 1, Area 1 and Group I - part) and Castle Vale (Area Ab, Area Ac, PS2, Area 1, Area 4, Area 5, Area 6, S/C Area), m10-19.jpg
Multi-storey block details: CB PS1: one 12-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CB A1: eight 16-storey blocks containing 836 dwellings; CB GI: six 11-storey blocks containing 250 dwellings; CV Ab: four 11-storey blocks containing 166 dwellings; CV Ac: four 11-storey blocks containing 167 dwellings; CV PS2: one 12-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CV 1: three 13-storey blocks containing 150 dwellings; CV 4: one 20-storey block containing 116 dwellings; CV 5: three 11-storey blocks containing 126 dwellings; CV 6: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CV S/C: one 13-storey block containing 50 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): CB PS1: Chivenor House; CB A1: Shawbury Tower; Northolt Tower; Lyneham Tower; Kemble Tower; Cranwell Tower; Cosford Tower; Bovingdon Tower; Abingdon Tower; CB GI: Viscount House; Vanguard House; Lysander House; Comet House; Avro House; Argosy House; CV Ab: Trident House; Hawker House; Hampden House; Auster House; CV Ac: Vulcan House; Pioneer House; Kestrel House; Javelin House; CV PS2: Topcliffe House; CV 1: Meteor House; Hermes House; Ensign House; CV 4: Concorde Tower; CV 5: Ternhill House; Oakington House; Andover House; CV 6: Hercules House; CV S/C: Valiant House; Image detail: View of Castle Vale from Kingsbury Road Original Commissioning Authority: Birmingham County Borough Council; Image taken: 1984;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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Birmingham City Castle Bromwich (Public School No. 1, Area 1 and Group I - part) and Castle Vale (Area Ab, Area Ac, PS2, Area 1, Area 4, Area 5, Area 6, S/C Area), m10-19.jpg
Multi-storey block details: CB PS1: one 12-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CB A1: eight 16-storey blocks containing 836 dwellings; CB GI: six 11-storey blocks containing 250 dwellings; CV Ab: four 11-storey blocks containing 166 dwellings; CV Ac: four 11-storey blocks containing 167 dwellings; CV PS2: one 12-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CV 1: three 13-storey blocks containing 150 dwellings; CV 4: one 20-storey block containing 116 dwellings; CV 5: three 11-storey blocks containing 126 dwellings; CV 6: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CV S/C: one 13-storey block containing 50 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): CB PS1: Chivenor House; CB A1: Shawbury Tower; Northolt Tower; Lyneham Tower; Kemble Tower; Cranwell Tower; Cosford Tower; Bovingdon Tower; Abingdon Tower; CB GI: Viscount House; Vanguard House; Lysander House; Comet House; Avro House; Argosy House; CV Ab: Trident House; Hawker House; Hampden House; Auster House; CV Ac: Vulcan House; Pioneer House; Kestrel House; Javelin House; CV PS2: Topcliffe House; CV 1: Meteor House; Hermes House; Ensign House; CV 4: Concorde Tower; CV 5: Ternhill House; Oakington House; Andover House; CV 6: Hercules House; CV S/C: Valiant House; Image detail: View of Castle Vale from Kingsbury Road Original Commissioning Authority: Birmingham County Borough Council; Image taken: 1984;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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Birmingham City Castle Bromwich (Public School No. 1, Area 1 and Group I - part) and Castle Vale (Area Ab, Area Ac, PS2, Area 1, Area 4, Area 5, Area 6, S/C Area), m10-19.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles / Breen, Kat
2023-05-17
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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