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Tower Blocks UK: Brent London Stonebridge Redevelopment Area, Stages III, IIIA, IIIB, IVA , l5-12.jpg
Multi-storey block details: III: two 13-storey blocks containing 270 dwellings; one 9-storey block containing 39 dwellings; six 7-storey blocks containing 163 dwellings; IIIA: two 7-storey blocks containing 69 dwellings; IIIB: one 8-storey block containing 49 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 41 dwellings; IV: one 22-storey block containing 168 dwellings; one 17-storey block containing 169 dwellings; two 16-storey blocks containing 318 dwellings; two 8-storey blocks containing 105 dwellings; two 7-storey blocks containing 47 dwellings; five 6-storey blocks containing 131 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): III: Wilmers House; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Palmer House; Mordaunt House; Longlents House; Fitzsimmons House; IIIA: Unknown; Fitzsimmons House; IIIB: Palmer House; Fitzsimmons House; IVA: Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Prothero House; Jeffries House; Hiscocks House; Haskell House; Gardiner House; Donovan House; Cowan House; Clark House; Image detail: View of blocks on Stonebridge Estate Original Commissioning Authority: Brent London 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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Brent London Stonebridge Redevelopment Area, Stages III, IIIA, IIIB, IVA , l5-12.jpg
Multi-storey block details: III: two 13-storey blocks containing 270 dwellings; one 9-storey block containing 39 dwellings; six 7-storey blocks containing 163 dwellings; IIIA: two 7-storey blocks containing 69 dwellings; IIIB: one 8-storey block containing 49 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 41 dwellings; IV: one 22-storey block containing 168 dwellings; one 17-storey block containing 169 dwellings; two 16-storey blocks containing 318 dwellings; two 8-storey blocks containing 105 dwellings; two 7-storey blocks containing 47 dwellings; five 6-storey blocks containing 131 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): III: Wilmers House; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Palmer House; Mordaunt House; Longlents House; Fitzsimmons House; IIIA: Unknown; Fitzsimmons House; IIIB: Palmer House; Fitzsimmons House; IVA: Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Prothero House; Jeffries House; Hiscocks House; Haskell House; Gardiner House; Donovan House; Cowan House; Clark House; Image detail: View of blocks on Stonebridge Estate Original Commissioning Authority: Brent London 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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Brent London Stonebridge Redevelopment Area, Stages III, IIIA, IIIB, IVA , l5-12.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles
2023-05-17
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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
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