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Tower Blocks UK: Tower Hamlets London ; MS and BR: Waltham Forest London Rowlett Street (and Extension), Burcham Street, Market Place and Beaumont Road Redevelopment Area (Stage 1), l46-11.jpg
Multi-storey block details: RS: one 26-storey block containing 146 dwellings; RS Extension: two 11-storey blocks containing 88 dwellings; BS: one 14-storey block containing 79 dwellings; MS: one 11-storey block containing 49 dwellings; BR: one 21-storey block containing 120 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 36 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): RS: Balfron Tower; RS Extension: Carradale House; BS: Glenkerry House; MS: Leyton Green Towers; BR: Osborne Court; All Saints' Tower; Image detail: View of Balfron Tower in foreground with Glenkerry House on left and Carradale House on right in background Original Commissioning Authority: RS and BS: Greater London Council; MS: Leyton Municipal Borough Council; BR: Leyton Municipal Borough Council; Image taken: 1979;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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Tower Hamlets London ; MS and BR: Waltham Forest London Rowlett Street (and Extension), Burcham Street, Market Place and Beaumont Road Redevelopment Area (Stage 1), l46-11.jpg
Multi-storey block details: RS: one 26-storey block containing 146 dwellings; RS Extension: two 11-storey blocks containing 88 dwellings; BS: one 14-storey block containing 79 dwellings; MS: one 11-storey block containing 49 dwellings; BR: one 21-storey block containing 120 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 36 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): RS: Balfron Tower; RS Extension: Carradale House; BS: Glenkerry House; MS: Leyton Green Towers; BR: Osborne Court; All Saints' Tower; Image detail: View of Balfron Tower in foreground with Glenkerry House on left and Carradale House on right in background Original Commissioning Authority: RS and BS: Greater London Council; MS: Leyton Municipal Borough Council; BR: Leyton Municipal Borough Council; Image taken: 1979;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 ...
Tower Blocks UK: Tower Hamlets London ; MS and BR: Waltham Forest London Rowlett Street (and Extension), Burcham Street, Market Place and Beaumont Road Redevelopment Area (Stage 1), l46-11.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles / Breen, Kat
2023-05-17
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Electronic Resource
English
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
Tower Blocks UK: Tower Hamlets London Rowlett Street Extension, l46-03.jpg
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